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r First Classmen Choose Varied Occupations Of Boxing Still Un-decided Here VOLUME XXX LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1937 NUMBER 30 Council To Decide On Boxing Question Spring Sports Monograms To Be Passed On By Body Final Boxing Vote Next Year's Cadet Editor To Be Elected The fate of intercollegiate box-ing at VMI will be settled once and for all tomorrow when the Athletic Council holds its regular spring meeting. At a previous meeting, arguments were presented by both dides, but the Council deferred acftion until a later time in order to give members a chance io consider the matter. ' At the last meeting, sentiment in the Council as a whole was re ported to be strongly opposed to any continuance of boxing here. Petitions and reports were ad-vanced by the boxers, led by Ran-dolph Whittle, captain of last year's squad, but it was said that if a vote had been taken at the time, the sport would have been abandoned, and the only conces-sion the proponents of boxing could secure was a postponement of a vote. Fight Looms Although from all indications it seemed likely today that boxing ' ould be dropped, it is probable at some fight will be made in lense of the sport when the Jouncil meets. Nothing oould be learned as to whether or not the individual members of the Coun-cil were opposed at the March meetings have changed their mind in regard to the subject. Boxing was dropped • at VMI fol lowing the tragic death of Cadet William Eastham as the result of injuries sustained in a match with Mike Lombardo, Maryland firghter. The accident caused a wave of comment from both critics and de-fenders of the sport all over the •ountry. Other Business Besides a decision on boxing, *ber regular business will be .Italt with by the Council tomor-row. Monograms in all spring sports will be awarded, and the editor of next year's "VMI Cadet" will be selected. The meeting is the last regularly scheduled for the C uncil for this year. Methodist Cadets *oijoy Hay Ride • .-pproximately thirty Cadets at-tended a hay ride given to Metho-dist Cadets by the Trinity Metho-dist church of Lexington. The Ca-dets left barracks about 3:15 Sat-urday afternoon and returned at 9:30. There were two trucks and a school bus that met the Cadets at Barracks and then went to the Methodist church to pick up the girls and the food. From the church the party drove to Cave Mountain ake, a beautiful little lake that was made by the Civilian Conser-vation Corps just a few miles out-ride of Glasgow. When the party arrived at Cave u'ountain Lake they were at lib-erty to do as they pleased from then until supper at six. Various groups formed and scattered, some climbing the mountain trails, some walking along the edge of the lake, and a few just sitting around wait-ing for the call to supper. At six the party assembled and after a short blessing by Dr. Aaron the party enjoyed an excellent and plentiful supper. After supper the party scattered again and wander-ed around until 7:20 when they as- (Continued On Page 8) Speaker (Courtesy Richmond Times-Dispatch) Richmond, Va-, May 15—Maj-or- General Charles E. KUbourne is shown above as he was mak-ing the New Market Day ad-dress before the Richmond VMI Alumni chapter. The new Superintendent has been in great demand as a speaker. A.S.C.E. Hears Experts Talk Government And Slate Offl cials Lecture To Engin-eers The, last meeting of the VMI student chapter of the ASCE was held Saturday morning, May 22 in Nichols Engineering Hall. Cadet D. C. Hastings, president of the VMI chapter presented the first guest speaker, Mr. J. C. Hoyt, an engineer with the United States Geological Survey and a past director and past vice-president of the ASCE. Mr. Hoyt is an authority on stream flow and water resources and his address centered upon the five main water problefs which confront the engineer: water supply, irriga-tion, water power, wate for indus-try, and flood control. The latter being of timely interest, he spoke at length on that topic, suggest-ing the abandonment of flood areas as homes and their conversion into parks to which floods could be of little damage. Mr. J. J. Dirzulaitis, District En-gineer for the United State Geolo-gical Survey, Chief Engineer of the Virginia State Conservation, and Development Commission, a prom-inent member of the American So-ciety of Civil Engineers, and an expert on surface and ground wat-ers was the second guest speaker. He expressed regret that more law was not included in the engineer-ing student's curriculum. He also said that there was an abundance of opportunities available for young engineers in the field of water supply, especially in re-search. Last Issue Of Cadet The Cadet, after this issue, suspends publication for the of-ficial year until the Finals ex-tar. This year's editor, C. B. Goolrick, will still have charge. The Final extra will be a limited edition of four pages and will be distributed in Barracks immediately following the Final Formation on the Hill at the cost of twenty cents to each Cadet. Government Inspection Unusual Success; Cadets Units Show Well In Maneuvers Lieutenant-Colonels Glass, Connor, And Davis-View Cadet Military Activities Critically May 21—The annual government inspection of the Virginia Military Institute ended here today with a field problem in which all mem-bers of the school service units were represented. The inspectors this year were Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Connor for the Field Ar-tillery; Lieutenant-Colonel Glass, for the Cavalry, and Lieutenant- Colonel Davis for the Infantry. Thursday's program included classroom work by all memlbers of the Corps, close order drill, and in the afternoon, a Garrison Review. Colonel Withers A. Burress, Com-mandant of Cadets, made a special turnout in the Mess Hall through the First Capt. compliment-ing his charges on their excellent showing during the day. Friday morning was a repetition of the preceding day, but in the afternoon the practical value of Institute training was illustrated to the Inspecting officers in the suc-cessful working of a field prob-lem on White's Farm. The prob-lem concerned the workings of the Advance Guard and enemy "Delay-ed Action." The Cavalry unit rep-resented the enemy, and a battery of Field Artillery and several com-panies of Infantry were the ad-vancing army of friendly troops. The orders published announcing the official rating of the various (Continued On Paa« 8) Memorial Day Parade Here Holiday On 31st To Be Boon To Studious Cadets Memorial Day this year will come on Monday the 31st of May. This day will be the first day in the Final Examination week. This day, being a holiday for the Insti-tute, will afford all of the boys to have an extra day to study be-fore their first examination. As usual, the Corps will have their Memorial Day parade in the morning. This year the parade will follow along the same lines as those of preceding ones. The Corps will be divided into two sections. There will be a field Artillery battery and a body of infantry which will be made of men in the different units who are not on the battery. The formation will be turned out around ten o'clock Monday morn-ing and will arrive at the Lexing-ton cemetery about eleven o'clock. The infantry will precede the bat-tery and the route of march will be from barracks along Letcher Avenue to the gates of the Wash-ington and Lee campus. From there the infantry will turn up Henry Street to Main Street and will proceed along this street to the Cemetery. The return route of march will be the same as the initial route. The infantry will, of course, be in full dress uniform and will carry arms. The battery will have on mounted full dress uniform. The rate of march will be quick-time march throughout the entire pa-rade. The two platoons of "B" Com-pany will fire a salute at eleven o'clock inside of the Cemetery in front of Jackson's statue. The re-mainder of the infantry will form in plantoon fronts facing the Cem-etery. This portion of the infan- (Continued On rage 8) Finance Comm Sends Permit Permit Sent To Supt. Office; Approval Necessary By New Regulation W. H. Hastings, chairman of the Second Class Finance Committee for the coming year, has announc ed that permits for the operation of the various concessions usually handled by this organization have been submitted to the Superintend-ent's office for approval. No word has yet been received of action upon them but a definite report is expected by the early part of next week according to Colonel Edwards who is associated with the Finance Committee in its work. The business concessions to be handled the next school term will be much the asme as those of this year. They include the following: the sale of flowers, newspapers, magazines, stationery, Christmas cards, and rat rings. The operation of movies in J. M. Hall, and of the Blue Room in the Gymnasium during the Hops is also on the list of activities. Tom Moseley, in charge of the latter project, has announced that his permit has al-ready been approved and that plans are being considered for providing cushions for the hard, bare benches that line the walls of the refresh-ment room. The operation of this concession is under the supervi-sion of the Hop Committee. Rat Rings Until this year the sale of Rat rings in barracks has been handled privately, but present plans call for the inclusion of this enterprise in the Finance Committee's work. In the past this business has prov-ed to be a most successful one due t<J the almost unanimous demand for these rings among the Fourth Classmen. The contract for Christmas cards for the next Yuletide season has been let to the Charles Elliott Co., (Continued On Page 8) First Classmen Plan Careers; 50% Have Definite Occupations The following list should denote something—what it denotes de-pending on several things which are not absolutely essential at this point. It is interesting, however, to point out some facts that have probably escaped public notice up to this time. For instance: there are the same number of men in the Chemistry and Liberal Arts de-partments, twenty-seven; also, and this will be of special interest to the proverbial hay-hounds of the L. A. Department who object to being referred to as the "crip de-partment" there is an equal num-ber, sixteen, in each department who are undecided about their course of action after graduation this June. The E. E.'s have the highest percentage of success, since everyone in a section of six has de-finite plans for the future. Gen-eral Electric and Westinghouse are taking on four men, which seems to indicate that the E. E. men are upholding an excellent record of long standing in this department. Out of a total of thirty-one men in the C. E. Department, only seven are undecided or uncertain. To sum up the above results, which, by the way, are not guaranteed nor in-fallible over fifty per cent of a class of ninety-one have definite (Continued On Page 8) Alumni Plan Finals; McCarthyMay Resign Alumni Secretary May Resign To Take New Post; Alumni President Easley Is Finals Speaker; Many Grads Expected To Return Resignation Rumored (Courtesy Richmond News Leader) May Accept Post With George Abbott May 24—Although unwilling to confirm officially any reports, it is almost definitely known here that the resignation of Frank McCarthy '33, this year's Secretary of the General Alumni Association, would be forthcoming within the next few days. Recently he has receiv-ed several offers of great import-ance, and it is a virtual certainty that he will accept one of them. Elected Secretary McCarthy returned to the Insti-tute in his present capacity follow-ing the resignation of Frank Sum-mers who accepted the position of head-coach at Randolph Macon College. Since this fall, the Alum-ni Association under the executive ability of McCarthy has made more real progress than it has ever made before. The Association Fund has surpassed any of its predeces-sors in point of interest and amount the newly incorporated VMI Foun-dation could lay the responsibility of its birth at the door of the Alum-ni Hall where McCarthy has his office, and the Alumni News has reached a new high in excellence. Unofficially the Alumni Secretary has achieved an equal amount of success. Off the records, Frank McCar-thy has probably contributed as much to the Corps of Cadets as any man has ever done before. He has aided in the plans and completion of various class shows, publications and even the planning of this year's ring figure. As a Cadet, he was one of the most active men in the Barracks; He served as chairman of the '33 Second Class Finance Committee, cadet captain, editor of the "Bomb," Hop Committee busi-ness manager, director of the Sec-ond Class show, and finally, the Cincinnati medalist. The authorship of various songs such as "Buck-ling on My Boots and Spurs" may be traced to the versatile McCar-thy. WiUi Theatrical Producer The position which McCarthy will accept if he resigns his pres-ent post is with the Broadway theatrical producer, George Abbott, of "Brother Rat," "Three Men On A Horse," and "On Your Toes," fame, ln need of a public rela-tions manager, Abbott has found the personality of McCarthy fitted for the job's requirements. The first assignment for the new pub- (Continued On Pas* 8) Bigger Crowd Than Usual Expected At Head-quarters Committee Elections Class Reunions To Reunite Corps Instead Of Mere Classes VMI Alumni in many parts of the nation are making plans for their annual pilgrimage to Lexing-ton and considering questions which must be decided when they arrive at the Institute for Finals, June 12- 16th. Advance indications show that more alumni will be present to witness the graduation of the Class of 1937 than at any other in the past, according to Frank McCarthy, Secretary of the Alumni Associa-tion. Annual Business Session At their annual business meeting in Jackson Memorial Hall on June 14, the former cadets must elect a president for the year 1937-1938. Officiating at the meeting will be Former Senator James S. Easley, Class of 1904, under whose leader-ship the the Association has made marked progress in every field, and who will long be remembered for his efforts in behalf of the VMI Fundation, which was incorporated this year. John C. Hagan, former president of the Association and associated with Mr. Easley in plan-ning the fund, is President of the Foundation. At the same meeting, the alutnni will elect five members to tlieir Executive Committee. These men will replace W. B. Bowles, '13, Har-ry deButts, '16, J. L. Dillard, '9t5, G. H. Miller, '24, and W. G. Tal-man, '31, whose terms expire af Finals. On the social side, sixteen classes will be in official reunion, while numerous others will hold informal reunions. Those who gather under the Dix System, which aims to re-unite whole corps rather than in-dividual classes dnly will be '35, '34,' 33, '32, '31, '15. '14, '13, '12, '96, '95, '94, '93, '77, '76 and '75. President To Report The annual report of the Presi-dent, usually presented at the Fin-als meeting of the Association, will be published this year in the last issue of The Alumni News. The magazine is now on the press and (Continued '>n Page 8) Ray Frye Signed For N. Va. Club Dance May 21—Arrangements are rap-idly completed for the Northern Virginia Club's summer dance to be given • in the Pot and Kettle Hall at Culpepper, Va., Thursday, June 17 from ten until two. After communicating with four bands from that section, the dance com-mittee of the club decided on Ray Frye and his Virginians from Har-risonburg. This orchestra is well known in Northern Virginia not only through the many dances for which it plays, but also because of its frequent broadcasts over Station WSVA in Harisonburg. The eleven piece band played here in Lexing-ton for the 1937 President's Ball last January. The Pot and Kettle Club Hall is aibout two miles outside of Culpep-per and is right next door to Wil-liams' Tea Room.
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Repository | Virginia Military Institute Archives |
Collection | VMI Cadet Newspaper |
Title | VMI Cadet. May 24, 1937 |
Issue Date | 1937-05-24 |
Volume/Number | Volume 30, number 30 |
Publisher | Virginia Military Institute |
Publication History | The Cadet (originally the Keydet), VMI's student newspaper, began weekly publication in the fall of 1907. Not published 1943-44, 1944-45, 1945-46 |
Frequency | Weekly during academic year, except during examinations and vacations |
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Virginia Military Institute -- Publications. Virginia Military Institute -- Cadet life. College student newspapers and periodicals -- Virginia -- Lexington. |
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VMI Archives Records Group | Publications |
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First Classmen Choose
Varied Occupations
Of Boxing Still Un-decided
Here
VOLUME XXX LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1937 NUMBER 30
Council To Decide
On Boxing Question
Spring Sports Monograms To
Be Passed On By
Body
Final Boxing Vote
Next Year's Cadet Editor To
Be Elected
The fate of intercollegiate box-ing
at VMI will be settled once
and for all tomorrow when the
Athletic Council holds its regular
spring meeting. At a previous
meeting, arguments were presented
by both dides, but the Council
deferred acftion until a later time
in order to give members a chance
io consider the matter. '
At the last meeting, sentiment
in the Council as a whole was re
ported to be strongly opposed to
any continuance of boxing here.
Petitions and reports were ad-vanced
by the boxers, led by Ran-dolph
Whittle, captain of last
year's squad, but it was said that
if a vote had been taken at the
time, the sport would have been
abandoned, and the only conces-sion
the proponents of boxing
could secure was a postponement
of a vote.
Fight Looms
Although from all indications it
seemed likely today that boxing
' ould be dropped, it is probable
at some fight will be made in
lense of the sport when the
Jouncil meets. Nothing oould be
learned as to whether or not the
individual members of the Coun-cil
were opposed at the March
meetings have changed their mind
in regard to the subject.
Boxing was dropped • at VMI fol
lowing the tragic death of Cadet
William Eastham as the result of
injuries sustained in a match with
Mike Lombardo, Maryland firghter.
The accident caused a wave of
comment from both critics and de-fenders
of the sport all over the
•ountry.
Other Business
Besides a decision on boxing,
*ber regular business will be
.Italt with by the Council tomor-row.
Monograms in all spring
sports will be awarded, and the
editor of next year's "VMI Cadet"
will be selected. The meeting is
the last regularly scheduled for the
C uncil for this year.
Methodist Cadets
*oijoy Hay Ride
•
.-pproximately thirty Cadets at-tended
a hay ride given to Metho-dist
Cadets by the Trinity Metho-dist
church of Lexington. The Ca-dets
left barracks about 3:15 Sat-urday
afternoon and returned at
9:30. There were two trucks and
a school bus that met the Cadets
at Barracks and then went to the
Methodist church to pick up the
girls and the food. From the church
the party drove to Cave Mountain
ake, a beautiful little lake that
was made by the Civilian Conser-vation
Corps just a few miles out-ride
of Glasgow.
When the party arrived at Cave
u'ountain Lake they were at lib-erty
to do as they pleased from
then until supper at six. Various
groups formed and scattered, some
climbing the mountain trails, some
walking along the edge of the lake,
and a few just sitting around wait-ing
for the call to supper. At six
the party assembled and after a
short blessing by Dr. Aaron the
party enjoyed an excellent and
plentiful supper. After supper the
party scattered again and wander-ed
around until 7:20 when they as-
(Continued On Page 8)
Speaker
(Courtesy Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Richmond, Va-, May 15—Maj-or-
General Charles E. KUbourne
is shown above as he was mak-ing
the New Market Day ad-dress
before the Richmond
VMI Alumni chapter. The new
Superintendent has been in
great demand as a speaker.
A.S.C.E. Hears
Experts Talk
Government And Slate Offl
cials Lecture To Engin-eers
The, last meeting of the VMI
student chapter of the ASCE was
held Saturday morning, May 22 in
Nichols Engineering Hall. Cadet D.
C. Hastings, president of the VMI
chapter presented the first guest
speaker, Mr. J. C. Hoyt, an engineer
with the United States Geological
Survey and a past director and
past vice-president of the ASCE.
Mr. Hoyt is an authority on stream
flow and water resources and his
address centered upon the five
main water problefs which confront
the engineer: water supply, irriga-tion,
water power, wate for indus-try,
and flood control. The latter
being of timely interest, he spoke
at length on that topic, suggest-ing
the abandonment of flood areas
as homes and their conversion into
parks to which floods could be of
little damage.
Mr. J. J. Dirzulaitis, District En-gineer
for the United State Geolo-gical
Survey, Chief Engineer of the
Virginia State Conservation, and
Development Commission, a prom-inent
member of the American So-ciety
of Civil Engineers, and an
expert on surface and ground wat-ers
was the second guest speaker.
He expressed regret that more law
was not included in the engineer-ing
student's curriculum. He also
said that there was an abundance
of opportunities available for
young engineers in the field of
water supply, especially in re-search.
Last Issue Of Cadet
The Cadet, after this issue,
suspends publication for the of-ficial
year until the Finals ex-tar.
This year's editor, C. B.
Goolrick, will still have charge.
The Final extra will be a
limited edition of four pages and
will be distributed in Barracks
immediately following the Final
Formation on the Hill at the
cost of twenty cents to each
Cadet.
Government Inspection Unusual Success;
Cadets Units Show Well In Maneuvers
Lieutenant-Colonels Glass, Connor, And Davis-View Cadet
Military Activities Critically
May 21—The annual government
inspection of the Virginia Military
Institute ended here today with a
field problem in which all mem-bers
of the school service units
were represented. The inspectors
this year were Lieutenant-Colonel
Daniel Connor for the Field Ar-tillery;
Lieutenant-Colonel Glass,
for the Cavalry, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Davis for the Infantry.
Thursday's program included
classroom work by all memlbers of
the Corps, close order drill, and in
the afternoon, a Garrison Review.
Colonel Withers A. Burress, Com-mandant
of Cadets, made a
special turnout in the Mess Hall
through the First Capt. compliment-ing
his charges on their excellent
showing during the day.
Friday morning was a repetition
of the preceding day, but in the
afternoon the practical value of
Institute training was illustrated to
the Inspecting officers in the suc-cessful
working of a field prob-lem
on White's Farm. The prob-lem
concerned the workings of the
Advance Guard and enemy "Delay-ed
Action." The Cavalry unit rep-resented
the enemy, and a battery
of Field Artillery and several com-panies
of Infantry were the ad-vancing
army of friendly troops.
The orders published announcing
the official rating of the various
(Continued On Paa« 8)
Memorial Day
Parade Here
Holiday On 31st To Be Boon
To Studious
Cadets
Memorial Day this year will
come on Monday the 31st of May.
This day will be the first day in
the Final Examination week. This
day, being a holiday for the Insti-tute,
will afford all of the boys
to have an extra day to study be-fore
their first examination. As
usual, the Corps will have their
Memorial Day parade in the
morning.
This year the parade will follow
along the same lines as those of
preceding ones. The Corps will be
divided into two sections. There
will be a field Artillery battery
and a body of infantry which will
be made of men in the different
units who are not on the battery.
The formation will be turned out
around ten o'clock Monday morn-ing
and will arrive at the Lexing-ton
cemetery about eleven o'clock.
The infantry will precede the bat-tery
and the route of march will
be from barracks along Letcher
Avenue to the gates of the Wash-ington
and Lee campus. From
there the infantry will turn up
Henry Street to Main Street and
will proceed along this street to
the Cemetery. The return route
of march will be the same as the
initial route.
The infantry will, of course, be
in full dress uniform and will
carry arms. The battery will have
on mounted full dress uniform. The
rate of march will be quick-time
march throughout the entire pa-rade.
The two platoons of "B" Com-pany
will fire a salute at eleven
o'clock inside of the Cemetery in
front of Jackson's statue. The re-mainder
of the infantry will form
in plantoon fronts facing the Cem-etery.
This portion of the infan-
(Continued On rage 8)
Finance Comm
Sends Permit
Permit Sent To Supt. Office;
Approval Necessary By
New Regulation
W. H. Hastings, chairman of the
Second Class Finance Committee
for the coming year, has announc
ed that permits for the operation
of the various concessions usually
handled by this organization have
been submitted to the Superintend-ent's
office for approval. No word
has yet been received of action
upon them but a definite report is
expected by the early part of next
week according to Colonel Edwards
who is associated with the Finance
Committee in its work.
The business concessions to be
handled the next school term will
be much the asme as those of this
year. They include the following:
the sale of flowers, newspapers,
magazines, stationery, Christmas
cards, and rat rings. The operation
of movies in J. M. Hall, and of
the Blue Room in the Gymnasium
during the Hops is also on the list
of activities. Tom Moseley, in
charge of the latter project, has
announced that his permit has al-ready
been approved and that plans
are being considered for providing
cushions for the hard, bare benches
that line the walls of the refresh-ment
room. The operation of this
concession is under the supervi-sion
of the Hop Committee.
Rat Rings
Until this year the sale of Rat
rings in barracks has been handled
privately, but present plans call
for the inclusion of this enterprise
in the Finance Committee's work.
In the past this business has prov-ed
to be a most successful one due
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