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1950 FINALS TO1 BE BIGGEST IN HISTORY Long Brings Famed Band To Finals Widely Varied Fields Favorite Plays Three Night Stand Here BY MACK BLACKWELL When Johnny Long and his or-chestra invade VMI for Final Hops this year, a reputation for satisfy-ing dancers and listeners will ac-company them. Thc suave maestro is a top favorite with dancers, and YMI Dramatic Club Produces Fist Work O'Neill's One Act Play In The Zone Surprises Corps With Huge Success JOHNNY LONG he is rated among the top three collegiate orchestras. The Long band has appeared at every major theater and location in the nation; he and his band have one of the most impressive records for musical renown ever compiled. Top Recording Favorite Johnny has been a top recording favorite for many years. After his band left Duke University, Decca signed it to a long-term contract that expired two years ago. While on that label, Long hit his flrst million-record with "Shanty Town" and then duplicated that with "When I Grow Too Old To Dream." Since then Johnny has been with Signature Records and now is the leader on the King label. His new King records are'3oing even better than expected and seem sure to pro-duce still another million-record. All of his recorded hits plus many new and outstanding innovations will be included in the program when Johnny Long brings his nationally-famous aggregation here. The youthful drive of the blonde bandleader is credited with much of Johnny Long's success. He aims his music right at the college-age crowd and is careful to see that all his arrangements strike the proper balance for excellent music. Even his theme song, "Sweetheart of Sigma Nu," is of collegiate origin. Long has Played all Major Colleges More than three hundred schools have hired Johnny Long during the past six years, many to repeat per-formances. His band has played at Last Saturday night approximate-ly two hundred cadets and visitors saw "In the Zone," a one-act play by Eugene O'Neil, given by »he VMI Dramatic Club. This was *he first production of the club, and the success of the play was sur-prising. None of the actors had ever acted previously, and the producer and director, Rufus C. Lazzell has never done any work in this line. He has, however, worked in stock theatres during the summer. No Facilities The group underwent extreme difficulties to put on this produc-tion. The lack of facilities hindered the progress of this group. The facts that the stage is small, there is no adequate lighting or spotlights, no backstage entrance or passage way, and flimsy curtains made of dyed burlap sacks, were discour-aging factors to all concerned. The production of the play was felt to be much better than anyone had anticipated because of the fact that the flrst production is always Cast Listed The cast included: J. Parker Cross, Pete Cox, Jack Trigg, Bill Hand, Joe Weber, Hobart Richey, Luke Witt, Walter Vogel and Hubert Rawlins. The play was set in the forcastle of an ammunition ship during the first World War. The jittery crew members sus-pected one of their fellow seaman, "Smitty," played by Bill Hand, as a German spy. Upon their crude investigation the crew members found the supposed spy to be a frusterated lover who had run away to sea. Cadet Hand portrayed the sup-posed spy, while Jack Trigg led Get Grads of Class of 50 The Class of 1950 will be scattered j 40 To Graduate Schools from one end of the United States | Graduate Schools throughout the to the other when school opens for j nation are to receive at least 40 the remainder of the Corps in Sep- members of the Class of 1950, with tember. The U. S. Army and Air ! Medicine leading and Law second. Force, Graduate School, Business j Other graduate courses follow with and Teaching are but a few of the , lesser applicants, many fields into which the Brother i The future barristers are to be Rats to be graduated next month { Foster Witt, Tommy Phillips, Robin will enter. | White, Tommy Harwood, Hugh In response to countless questions, ! R u d d <al1 S°i n S t o u - V a ) ' J- H' the Cadet ran an investigation and F l iPPe n - E d ° a s t ( b o t h t o W & L ) came up with thc following infor-mation concerning the positions to be held next year by the graduates. 30 To Armed Forccs Thirty men have chosen to enter the Armed Forces. The Army will get fifteen. Buck Buchanan, Willard Vickers, Harry French, Bob Lynd, Marcus H a n s e n , and Randolph Townsend have chosen the Infantry. The Cavalry is to get Lee Odell, Bud Fisher, George Mason, Hans Strohm, and Len Lewane, while Joe Olivares, Tunstall Strawhand, Lee Chegin, and possibly Dave the suspicious crew in their in- j Marble are to take up Artillery, vestigation. Both of these men are The Air Force has Dick Coup-fourth classmen and should boost land, Al Volk, Dick Mandt, Tommy the Dramatic Club far with their fine talent. All make-up work for the play was done by Joe Weber who has had six years of previous experience in high school and amateur productions. The entire play was wire re-corded by Frank Butler for use in the hardest. Some people found the English department. the fact that this was the first pro-duction of the VMI Dramatic Club, hard to conceive. Members of ihe audience made special efforts to comment to the producer and director on the success of the play. Future Plans Producer and director Rufus Laz-zelle stated that no definite plans have bten made for next year, but it is hoped that at least four one act plays can be put on. Kirk, Bill Schaumburg, Ray Ta-malis, Bill Tuxhorn, M. E. Witcher, Al Green, Ed Miller, Buddy Skel-ton, and Harvey Wise signed up. Most men are reporting to flight school within a few weeks after being graduated. Ken Taft, Tuck Burckell, and Rawles Fulgham are to be "Leather-necks" in Uncle Sam's crack Marine Corps. PEGGY BARNETT ALL of the Big Ten schools; his itinerary will often include as many as five school dates in a single week. From this record, it's not hard to see, then, that in the trade they call Johnny Long "America's Favorite." Featured Stars To be featured with band Finals will be Junie Mays, pianist, who wrote the "VMI Ring Waltz," and who is considered to be one of the best dance band pianist, in the busi-ness; J i m m y Sedlar, featured trumpeter with the band; the Gtee Club, comprised of the entire menv bership of the band. Vocal numbers Peggy Barnett. will be handled mainly by Miss The popular song group, The (Continued on Page 5) 1950 Bomb Is To Be Issued Last Of Week The long-awaited 1950 Bomb will be delivered in barracks next Thursday or Friday, Edward Smith, Bomb sales chief revealed today. Room 231 will be the headquarters of the distribution, and all men will be notified by turnout in al-phabetical order. It is requested by the staff that men report as promptly as possible when their group is called 815 in Barracks The total circulation in barracks this year is larger than ever before, with 815 copies being sold here in barracks. There will be about twenty extra copies available for sale at $9.50 each, if anybody would like to buy more than he signed up for. Men will have to sign a receipt for their book, but in the event that a man is not present, another may sign for the annual. It is hoped that all copies can be distributed by Friday night and all affairs straightened out at that time. Largest This year's Bomb, in addition to being the biggest in history, 392 pages, is also the most costly. Sambo Brown, Business Manager, has revealed that printing costs for the book exceeded six thousand dollars, while engraving costs were exactly four thousand. The grand total, then, for publication alone, was over ten thousand dollars. It was pointed out that both printing and engraving costs have risen, yet the price of the book re-mains the same, despite advice from authorities to increase the cost. Advertising has been cut down, with more emphasis being placed on features about VMI and the Corps. More pictures than ever be-fore have been put in this year as a result It is interesting to note that ninety Bombs have been sold to the Alumni Association for the pur-pose of serving as silent salesmen for the VMI. One of these Bombs is to be placed in every high school in Virginia, with no cost to the school involved. Continued on Page 6 and Dave Fleming. Medicine is claiming Bob Kesler, Bert Jolly, Frank Tweedy, Cary Blaydes, Bill Driskill, (all to U. Va.), Elmore Salley, Lou Lunsford, Sam Saunders (only dentist in crowd), all to Medical College of Va., Bill Muir (Columbia), Howard Sauder (Western Reserve), J. D, Jones, (Duke), Ken Carrington, (Penn), Alex Mitchell, Ash Harri-son, and Jere Mitchell. Business School is the destination of another group, with Jack Nurney, George Coffman, and Frank Boehrn going to Wharton, and Erskine Williams going to Harvard. Graduate work at several uni-versities is the goal of Bill Over-man and Ernie Reinhold both of whom are to be at Carolina, Ernie Kritzmacher (Cornell), Jim Goli-ghtly (Paris), Zack Gray (W&M), John Davis (Purdue), Bill Lewis (Duke), Bailey Hurley (Columbia), Charlie Tewes (Texas), Dan Hal-pin (MIT), Gene Lopez (Harvard), Bookie Bond, (W&L), Jack Lyons, (Georgetown), Fred Silver, and (Continued on Page 6) JIM ELLIS—Valedictorian 'Honor Court' Is Feature In Final Turn-Out Jim Ellis, Editor of the Turn Out, has revealed that the Finals Issue of his magazine will be one of the biggest and best of the year As usual, the publication will sell for twenty-five cents and will be available to all interested. Stands will be provided in the PX, Gym and other points of vantage to facilitate the sales. The theme of this last issue will be Graduation, with the cover and perhaps an editorial devoted to this topic. Perhaps the most in-teresting feature, according to Ellis, will be a feature on the VMI Honor Court. This is to be the main feat-ure of the issue, and is designed to be a descriptive essay including a complete detailed account of pro-cedure and a description of an Honor Court Trial. "I think it will be of considerable interest to the Alumni and the Corps," Ellis said. The article was written under the supervision of Norris Thompson, President of the Honor Court, after approval had been given by the Court for the publication of such an article. Photo Feature The photographic department of the magazine has also come up with a big spread; this is on Turnabout Day and on the festivities that came off during Easter weekend. Miss Easters and Miss America are to be the centers of the pictorial essay, along with the pictures of the First Captain and the Alligator straining for some sassy Fourth Classman. The jokes and cartoons are to be an "Improvement on the last issue." Short stories, one by Jim Ellis himself, one by John Gordon, and still another by Phil Richard-son, of the second class, who is making his debut as a writer for the Turn-Out, will spark the liter-ary department. The story of the latter has been termed "excellent' by the editor of the publication. Color Cover A full color front cover is plan-ned by the staif for the Finals Issue, in addition to the double page spread which is to be executed by Mac Blackwell on the points of in- Continued on Page 6 Senior Officers of The Glee Club BILL KELLY, JOHN TAYLOR, ED SMITH and RALSTON BROOKE Harris Elected President Of Glee Club; Moncrief, Green, And Yore Hold Other Offices 4 th. Class Recognized Officially Last Monday, the fifteenth of May, the rats were officially de-clared fourth classmen and mem-bers of the Class of '53. An "Old Yell" led by Norris Thompson in the courtyard ended this year's rat line. Following the "Old Yell" led for the Class of '53 by Thompson. Parker Cross, president of the Class of '53 led his brother rats in yells for the senior classes. Preceding the courtyard festivi-ties the upper classmen had a field day when they proceeded to paint the rats with shaving soap, lip-stick, oil paints, and jet oil. Water was poured in an on nearly every rat and the uniforms were in gen-eral a mess. Eloures were worn backwards, hats likewise, pants rolled up to the knees and shoe-strings tied together. Last Company Room Not long after the rats returned to their roms, the time for the "Last Company Room" rolled a-round. Each company met in dif-ferent rooms and the rats had to fight their way out of the room, past all of the old cadets of their company. During the "Last Com-pany Rooms" a number of upper classmen, namely the first class enjoyed themselves to the utmost in tearing up rats rooms. Books, towels, undercloths. sheets, papers, were thrown on the floor and where powder was found, that powder was covering everything. Bedrolls and blankets of the newly cadets were thrown oft the fourth stoop and into the courtyard, the majority being "dumped" down the PX stairway. After the company rooms were (Continued on Page 6) Class Of 180 To Hear Gen. G. C. Marshall With General George C. Marshall as the principal speaker, the Class of 1950 promises to be the class honored with the biggest finals in the history of the Institute. Not only are more men to be graduated than ever before, but a dozen classes have planned to have re-unions in the Finals week. Johnny Long, the bandleader who made such a hit with the '50's when he played for their Ring Figure two years ago, will be back to furnish the music for their last Hop as members of the Corps of Cadets. The theme of the Hops will of course be graduation, and ihe gym is to be decorated accordingly. The Graduation Ceremony itself will also be held in the gym, and members of the first class have volunteered to take down the dec-orations which might hinder the execution of the ceremonies con-cerning graduation. No Limit on Guests A cadet may invite as many people as he likes to come to the graduation ceremonies, but Colonel Barksdale has announced that only two seats will be reserved up front for each senior. These seats will be situated in a position from which a full view of the exercises may be seen. The unreserved section will not be in so favorable a place. Among the distinguished person-alities who are slated to be here for Finals are of course Gene.-al Marshall, and also General James W. Moore, of Selma, Ala., class of 1873. The general is the oldest living alumnus, and is one of the few remaining Confederate soldiers alive. He is now Commander in Chief of the United Confederate Veterans. The general is between 95 and 100 years old, yet shows re-markable vitality and exhibits still a great interest in the VMI. Reunions Those classes planning reunions are 1900, 1904, 1910, 1912, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1949, Quartering of such a large group of alumni has been successfully accomplished, with some staying in the visiting teams room in the gym ('15), others in places about and in Lexington, (Sigma Nu houses—1920, Beta house, 1925, Pi KA house—1940, Phi Gam house— 1949). General Spencer B. Akin, Class agent of the Class of 1910, is also Chief of the Army Signal Corps, while 1912 has a disting-uished general in th'e person of Samuel L. Howard, Major General in the U.S. Marines. Over 180 men are slated to (let their diplomas on June 13, marking the biggest class ever to receive their degrees from the Institute in (Continued on Page 5) Officers to Begin Work On 1950 Plans During the evening rehearsal on Thursday, May 18, the V.M.I. Glee Club turned to the work-a-day as-pects of operating such an organ-ization and elected new officers for the coming year. By unanimous vote, Herbert L. Harris of Lynch-burg was elected to the office of president. Other new officers who will comprise the Executive Com-mittee of the VMI Glee Club are: Ray Moncrief, vice-president, J. Russell Green, business manager, Bob Yore, publicity manager, Luke Witt, secretary, and George Miller, Jr., librarian. New Plans Made Having recently completed a spring concert tour of Virginia's Tidewater Area, which included programs in Richmond and New-port News, the club is focusing at-tention already on the '50-'51 sea-son. With every indication that Tidewater Tour Ends Most Successful Season On Monday, May 15, the VMI Glee Club completed what is thought to be the most successful concert tour of its entire pre-war existence. The tour ended the Club's Spring concert season which has included concerts at Ran-dolph- Macon Woman's College, the Easter sunrise service at Natural Bridge, services in Lexington churches on Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday, a three day trip to Roanoke, Virginia, and now a trip to Richmond and Newport News. In all, six concerts were given during hte four and a half days that the Club was away from barracks. The high spot among these concerts was the one given in the WRVA Theater in Richmond on Thursday evening. May 11. As a result of the publicity put out by the VMI Alumni Chapter of the scope of activities of the choral, Richmond, sponsors of the concert, group will continue to expand as and aided by the C. F. Sauer Com-it has done in the past few years.! pany, whose president is an alum-the new officers will be even more : nus of the Institute, the Club sang aware of the serious and often to an almost full house, by far the tedious work that must be done largest audience that has attended (Continued On Page 2) 1 (Continued on Page 4) ilUnaurLAV ouuut KHia ...v u.*—
Object Description
Repository | Virginia Military Institute Archives |
Collection | VMI Cadet Newspaper |
Title | VMI Cadet. May 22, 1950 |
Issue Date | 1950-05-22 |
Volume/Number | Volume 40, 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 |
Subject |
Virginia Military Institute -- Publications. Virginia Military Institute -- Cadet life. College student newspapers and periodicals -- Virginia -- Lexington. |
Digital Publisher | Virginia Military Institute Archives |
VMI Archives Records Group | Publications |
Rights | Materials in the VMI Archives Digital Collections are intended for educational and research use and may be used for non-commercial purposes with appropriate attribution. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Military Institute Archives Digital Collections is required. Contact the VMI Archives for additional information. |
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Issue Date | 1950-05-22 |
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1950 FINALS TO1 BE BIGGEST IN HISTORY
Long Brings Famed Band To Finals Widely Varied Fields
Favorite Plays
Three Night
Stand Here
BY MACK BLACKWELL
When Johnny Long and his or-chestra
invade VMI for Final Hops
this year, a reputation for satisfy-ing
dancers and listeners will ac-company
them. Thc suave maestro
is a top favorite with dancers, and
YMI Dramatic Club
Produces Fist Work
O'Neill's One Act Play In The Zone
Surprises Corps With Huge Success
JOHNNY LONG
he is rated among the top three
collegiate orchestras. The Long
band has appeared at every major
theater and location in the nation;
he and his band have one of
the most impressive records for
musical renown ever compiled.
Top Recording Favorite
Johnny has been a top recording
favorite for many years. After his
band left Duke University, Decca
signed it to a long-term contract
that expired two years ago. While
on that label, Long hit his flrst
million-record with "Shanty Town"
and then duplicated that with
"When I Grow Too Old To Dream."
Since then Johnny has been with
Signature Records and now is the
leader on the King label. His new
King records are'3oing even better
than expected and seem sure to pro-duce
still another million-record. All
of his recorded hits plus many new
and outstanding innovations will
be included in the program when
Johnny Long brings his nationally-famous
aggregation here.
The youthful drive of the blonde
bandleader is credited with much
of Johnny Long's success. He aims
his music right at the college-age
crowd and is careful to see that all
his arrangements strike the proper
balance for excellent music. Even
his theme song, "Sweetheart of
Sigma Nu," is of collegiate origin.
Long has Played all Major Colleges
More than three hundred schools
have hired Johnny Long during the
past six years, many to repeat per-formances.
His band has played at
Last Saturday night approximate-ly
two hundred cadets and visitors
saw "In the Zone," a one-act play
by Eugene O'Neil, given by »he
VMI Dramatic Club. This was *he
first production of the club, and
the success of the play was sur-prising.
None of the actors had ever
acted previously, and the producer
and director, Rufus C. Lazzell has
never done any work in this line.
He has, however, worked in stock
theatres during the summer.
No Facilities
The group underwent extreme
difficulties to put on this produc-tion.
The lack of facilities hindered
the progress of this group. The facts
that the stage is small, there is
no adequate lighting or spotlights,
no backstage entrance or passage
way, and flimsy curtains made of
dyed burlap sacks, were discour-aging
factors to all concerned.
The production of the play was
felt to be much better than anyone
had anticipated because of the fact
that the flrst production is always
Cast Listed
The cast included: J. Parker
Cross, Pete Cox, Jack Trigg, Bill
Hand, Joe Weber, Hobart Richey,
Luke Witt, Walter Vogel and
Hubert Rawlins. The play was set
in the forcastle of an ammunition
ship during the first World War.
The jittery crew members sus-pected
one of their fellow seaman,
"Smitty," played by Bill Hand, as
a German spy. Upon their crude
investigation the crew members
found the supposed spy to be a
frusterated lover who had run away
to sea.
Cadet Hand portrayed the sup-posed
spy, while Jack Trigg led
Get Grads of Class of 50
The Class of 1950 will be scattered j 40 To Graduate Schools
from one end of the United States | Graduate Schools throughout the
to the other when school opens for j nation are to receive at least 40
the remainder of the Corps in Sep- members of the Class of 1950, with
tember. The U. S. Army and Air ! Medicine leading and Law second.
Force, Graduate School, Business j Other graduate courses follow with
and Teaching are but a few of the , lesser applicants,
many fields into which the Brother i The future barristers are to be
Rats to be graduated next month { Foster Witt, Tommy Phillips, Robin
will enter. | White, Tommy Harwood, Hugh
In response to countless questions, ! R u d d |