VMI Cadet. October 18, 1974

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OFFICE 315
SMITH HALL
VOLUME LXV Virginia Military institute, Lexington, Virginia October IS, 1974
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NUMBER 6
Films Slated
Wednesday
The Department of Modern
Languages will sp<»isor two
films on October 23, at 7:30 p.m.
on the 400 level of Lejeune Hall.
Admission to this celluloid
extravanganza will be'a mere
50c. These two films, brought to
you by the same people who
gave you the Dracula spec-tacular,
concern themselves,
with the Middle Ages. The first
movie is Fritz Lang's
Nibelungen (Kriemhilde's
Revenge). It was made in
Germany in 1924, but was
banned during the Third Reich
because it showed Germans
merrily hacking each other a-part.
This film is based on the
legend of Kriemhilde's revenge
of the death of her husband
Siegfried (Sorry, the her of the
200 level of SSH has not yet been
smitten.) This movie is silent,
but a musical sound track and
English titles have been added
f(H* your viewing pleasure.
The second flick of the
evening will be the award-w
i n n i n g C o u rt
Jester, starring Danny Kaye,
Glynnis Johns, and Basil Rath-bone.
This full-color American
film, made in 1956, is primarily
a spoof of the Middle Ages, with
evil tyrants, damsels in
distress, dwarves, midgets, and
outlaws (much like our own
Lanugage Dept.)
The entire evenings en-t^
rtainment, including a PX
check wiU' last approximately
two hours. The evening
promises to be a very en-tertaining
one (if not the films,
then the comments from the
floor!).
DAS Named
Recently the Aerospace
Department revealed the list of
Air Force cadets who have been
designated Distinguished
Aerospace Students for the 1974-
75 academic year. The Cadets,
comprising 30 per cent of the
First Class Aerospace Students,
were selected after being
judged on academic per-formance,
military per-formance,
summer camp
rating, leadership ability, and
personality.
The cadets are: D. J. Ber-nardini,
V. G. Conner, D. W.
Dove, M. R. Fleenor, J. D.
Greene, E. D. Heiken, W. G.
Houser Jr., C. D. Ingelido, J. W.
McCriskin, D. S. MiUer, R. 0.
Mines Jr., R. J. Norman, A. B.
Nunn III, D. J. Powers, J. W.
Sheffield II, M. Skuby and K. P.
Wood.
Of these cadets, two-thirds
may be designated
Distingiushed Graduates. This
is the only real indication of a
cadet's achievement in Air
Force ROTC and to be chosen as
a Distinguished Graduate is an
honor above and beyond the
norm.
Toney Awarded
Scholarship
This year's recipient of the Lt.
Colonel Virgil I. Grisson
* Memorial Award is Cadet
William H. Toney Jr.. Selected
as one of two cadets in the
United States to receive the
award. Cadet Toney, a second
classman, will be granted a
scholarship totalling $2,000 over
his final two academic years.
The Grissom Memorial Award
is dedicated to the late
astronaut Lt. Colonel Virgil I.
Grissom and is awarded an-nually
in recognition of
distinguished academic and
military excellence and for
demonstrated potential for
future outstanding con-tributions
to the U. S. Air Force
and the nation.
Cadet Toney, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Toney Sr.
of Chesapeake, Virginia, is a
Cladet sergeant in the Corps of
Cadets and has been
academically distinguished in
his Rat and Third Class years.
He is a member of the Baptist
Student Union and the Arnold
Air Society and last year
received the Reserve Officers
Association Award for out-standing
leadership and
academic achievement in
Aerospace Studies.
iT-38'8of Air Training Command make the down patrol. This and the T-37 will be at VMI in Little over a
week.
They're Coming
VMI will have a static display
of two Air Force jet aircraft for
several days b^inning the last
part of this month. A Cessna T-
37 and a Northrop T-38 will be
out by the evening gun from
October 30 to November 2 on the
parade ground for the in-spection
of Cadets and visitors.
Both aircraft are flown by
student pilots in USAF Un-dergradute
Pilot Training
(UPT) once on active duty. Air
Training Command Instructor
pilots train about 3,000 i^ots per
year. Men going to Air Fwce
summer camp have the op-portunity
to fly in one of these
types also.
The T-37 was the firsKjet
specifically designed for
training purposes. It is
nicknamed "Tweety Bird"
because of the unusual whine of
its engines. Some say it is also
the only machine in the world
that can change jet fuel into
noise. The combat version, the
A-37 has served in Vietnam.
The T-38 "Talon" aircraft on
exhibit will be pamted red.
white, and blue in the color
scheme of those flown by the Air
Force demonstration team the
Thunderbirds. Recently the
Thunderbirds changed oyer
from the McDonnell-Douglas iF4
"Phantom" to the T-38 to
economize on both manpower
and fuel. It is the advanced
trainer ^ d can reach super-sonic
speeds. It features tan-dem
seating as opposed to the
side-by-side seating in the T-37.
There are several combat
versions of the T-38 in service in
foreign countries.
VMI Theatre
Opening Soon
Bill Toney
The VMI Theatre's season
will begin on November 7th with
its first production, Enter a
Free Man. This play is a
comedy in two acts by the
British playwright Tom St<^
pard. The cast for this
production includes actors from
the Theatre's previous
productions, and some new
faces from the community and
neighboring colleges. Resident
director George Kosivic has
promised that this play will be
one of the Theatre's best
productions.
The Theatre's first per-formance
of Enter a Free Man
will b ^ i n at 8 p.m. on Itiursday
November 7th, with two more 8
p.m. performances on Friday
and Saturday the 8th and 9th of
November. The final per-formance
of Enter a Free Man
will be a special matinee at 2
p.m. Sunday, the 19th of
November. Tickets for all
performances may be pur-chased
through the receptionist
at Lejeune Hall. Tickets will
also be on sale in Room 311,
Scott Shipp Hall between 3:30
and 5:30 p.m. on the 29th
through 31st of October and the
5th and 6th of November. To be
consistent with present anti-inflation
programs the Theatre
is offering advanced sale tickets
for the Thursday and Sunday
performances for $1.00. Tickets
bought at the door or in advance
for Friday or Saturday are still
$1.50.