VMI Cadet. April 28, 1952

              VOLUME XLII VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA. APRIL 28, 1952 NUMBER 26
Ike^ Kef Oliver
Top Balloting
In Cadet Poll
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Sen. Estes Kefauver, carrying 65
percent and 43 percent respective-ly,
of their party's nominating
votes won the Republican and
Democratic nomination for the
presidency in a mock election held
at VMI during the past week as
part of the Virginia collegiate poll
conducted by the University of
Virginia's "Cavalier Daily."
The primary, which was spon-sored
by the "Cadet," was con-ducted
in room-to-room fashion in
barracks and saw 649 members or
74.92 percent of the corps voting.
Staff members polled 155 Demo-cratic
and 494 Republican cadets.
A prepared slate was offered but
reasonable write-in votes were ac-cepted.
Eisenhower received 320 of the
649 total votes cast, in easily out-distancing
his nearest competitor
Senator Taft. Taft, who is current-ly
leading in the gathering of
delegates for the actual Republican
convention, garnered only 125 Re-publican
pointers. Stassen made a
showing that closely paralleled
that which he has been making in
the race for convention delegates,
procuring a scant 15 man group's
support at VMI.
California's Warren managed to
double the total achieved by Stas-sen
in gathering his cadet support.
Thirty men gave him the nod giv-ing
him a little over 6 percent-of
the Republican vote. It is of inter-est
that only one acceptable write-in
candidate was forwarded by the
barracks members of the GOP,
Gen. MacArthur receiving a four
vote total.
The race was found to be more
spirited in the Democratic race
and saw Kefauver clinging to a
six vote lead over Georgia's Rus-sell
as the election deadline ar-rived.
A run-down of other poten-tial
nominees shows Barkley pos-sessing
two votes, doubling the
rotes gathered by Kerr and Mc-lAahon.
Seven of the writers-in refused
to believe the President's renunci-ation
of the nomination and gave
him their all-one vote eack Other
men receiving write-in votes were
Douglas with one and Stevenson
with three markers.
Easter Hops Feature Coronation,
Concert, And Music of Prima
Mr. Faullmer
Is President
Of State C of C
WORTHINGTON FAULKNER
Worthington Faulkner of Glas-gow
is the new president of the
Virginia State Chamber of Com-merce,
after his election in Rich-mond
last Saturday.
Faulkner is the only man to
serve as president of the State
Chamber of Commerce and of the
Virginia Manufacturers Associa-tion.
He served one year in the
latter post in 1950.
Faulkner is general manager of
the Blue Ridge division the
James Lees & Sons Company at
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MISS PAT MATHES
Mr. Satterfield
Talks To ACS
About Cement
Mr. James M. Satterfield, Sales
Representative of Ifae Lone Star
Cement Corporation of the Roa-noke
plant, presented a talk on
the cement industry last Wednes-day
evening to the VMI Chapter
of the American Chemical Society.
Mr. Satterfield, who is a gradu-ate
of the Institute, began his talk
by relating a few of his own ex-periences
while here. After empha-sizing
the importance of a col-lege
degree to anyone who is
entering the chemical profession,
he briefly explained the several
steps in the production of Port-land
Cement. To illustrate his
talk Satterfield presented a sound
color film, "The Drama of Port-land
Cement," which described in
great detail the several stages of
its manufacture, beginning with
the initial quarrying of the lime-stones
and proceeding through the
pulverzing of the stone, its bak-ing
and then repulverizing, and
ending with its bagging to be
shipped to the distributors.
After the film Satterfield ex-plained
the Lone Star operational
set-up, and then ansewered ques-tions
from the floor.
During the business meeting
which followed it was decided
that, if possible, the Chapter's
May meeting would take the form
of a quarter guard supper, at
which several of the first class-men
will present their thesis to
the society.
The supper and presentations'
will complete the activities of the
VMI chapter for this school year.
The coronation of "Miss East-ers,"
rainstorms, an afternoon con-cert
and tea dance, and the
trumpet and orchestra of Louis
Prima highlighted the events of
the 1952 Spring Hops held last Fri-day
through Sunday.
Miss Barbara Hunley was crown-ed
as VMI's "Miss Easters" by Mrs.
Frank R. Pancake at a ceremony
presented by the Hop Committee
during the Friday night dance.
Miss Hunley and her court with
their escorts took part in a short
figure before being presented with
favors by the commandant and his
wife.
The new queen, who is a senior
at Southern Seminary, was escort-ed
by Chris Holland of the First
Class. She was voted the most at-tractive
girl in her class earlier in
the year and is engaged to Holland.
The member of her court repre-senting
the class of 1952 was Miss
Peggy Flippen of Richmond, who
was escorted by Keith Bleecker
and who is a graduate of the Col-legiate
School for Girls in Rich-mond.
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Representing the Second Class
was Barbara Williams of Kings-port,
Tenn., who was escorted dur-ing
the ceremony by Harry John-son.
"Miss 1954" was Pat Mathes
of Richmond, while "Miss 1955"
was Ruth Ann Gee, also of Rich-mond.
The former was escorted by
Buddy Addison and the latter by
Billy Nolley.
The queen and her court entered
the dance floor through an arch
centered in a make-believe garden
containing a multi-colored chemi-cal
fountain and the traditional dis-play
of shako, sabre, breast plate,
and white gloves. Members of the
Hop Committee and their dates
formed a lane past which the
royalty moved to receive their
ribbons and favors.
The music of Louis Prima, which
varied from the soft strains of
"Tenderly" to the fast and furious
rhythm of "Oh, Babe" was re-ceived
with much enthusiasm by
the large crowds attending both
the dances and the concert on Sat-urday
afternoon. The dancers re-quested
again and again tte novel-ty
numbers that feaHwd the
talented trumpet of Prima or the
versatile voice of vocalist Keely
Smith, but found the orchestra's
presentation of danceable music
to be the equal, both qualitatively
and quantitatively, of that of many
a more heralded dance band.
P o p u l a r ballads like "Blue
Moon," "How High The Moon,"
"Tenderly," "Anytime," "I'll Walk
Alone," and "Wheel of Fortune,"
fared well under the arranging
hand of Prima and requested
often by the cadets and their dates.
It was during his concert that
Louis let loose with a portion of
his more famous lineup of novelty
numbers, and showed the crowd
more of his comedian-like antics
and acts.
The first half of the concert saw
numbers like "Angelina," "Yea,
Yea, Yea," "I Can't Give You Any-thing
But Love," "Oh Babe," and
"Basin Street Blues" warmly re-ceived,
while the second half was
devoted to the Tea Dance that
Claude Thornhill previously popu-larized
at the Institute.
Rain, which varied from the
misty to the torrential variety,
either threatened to fall or fell
during most of the weekend. It not
only spoiled the many picnics
planned for Saturday and Sunday
afternoon, but also—made impos-sible
the presentation of the
parade on Friday afternoon.
The gym was decorated in pastel
shades of red, white, and green in
the traditional manner. The back-drop,
which was painted by John
Speth and committee, was an origi-nal
and clever departure from the
customary painting and represent-ed
a form of what may be called
modern art.
Gen. R. J. Marshall
Reported Improving
The condition of Major Gen.
Richard J. Marshall, superinten-dent
of Virginia Military Institute,
has been reported "much im-proved"
by Walter Reed Hospital.
Gen. Marshall entered the hos-pital
March 12 and suffered a
slight stroke shortly afterwards.
The hospital said he is now "pro-gressing
very well."
Glee Club Gives
Third Concert
Of Spring Tour
On Tuesday, April twenty
second, the V. M. I. Glee Club
presented its third concert of the
Spring season in the Thomas
Jefferson High School auditorium
in Roanoke. An appreciative audi-ence
responded favorably to all
the presentations. The first half
of the concert included such num-bers
as, "Its A Grand Night For
Singing", from State Fair, "Men
Of Harleck," Adoramus Te," by
Palestrina, and three choruses
from Gilbert and Sullivan "Prin
cess Ida". Cadet Larry Moise cap-tured
the spotlight in the first
half of the program when he ap-peared
as the tenor soloist in the
"Ash Grove". As an encore he
sang the lead part in the familiar
Scotch folksong, "Comin' Through
The Rye".
The second portion of the pro-gram
was introduced by a piano
duet performed by two accompa-nists
Francisco Gonzales and Wes
Gray. The selection which the two
had picked, according to the pro-gram,
was the "Hungarian Dance
No. 6" by Brahms. The audience
was pleasantly amused, however,
when the duo presented "Down
Yonder" and "Sweet Georgia
Brown" instead. The reason for
the change was that Gonzales had
been sick in the hospital and the
two had not had the chance to
prepare the number properly for
the concert.
The scond soloist of the even-ing
was Parker Cross who has
just recently become a member of
the club. His selection, "Old Man
River", was good enough to war-rant
a return to the stage. As
an encore he presented the fami-
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AF ^General
Vandenberg
Will Speak
On June 10
General Hoyt S. Vandenberg,
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air
Force, has been selected to deliver
the Finals address to the graduat-ing
class at the ceremony in Cocke
Hall on June 10 when approxi-mately
150 VMI first classmen will
be graduated. The commencement
ceremony will climax the activities
held throughout the four days of
the 1952 VMI finals. The General
will undertake a task that was
handled last year by W. Averell
Harriman, now being considered
for the presidential nomination.
A native of Milwaukee, Wis-consin,
he is a graduate of the
United States Military Academy,
Class of 1923, and of the Air Serv-ice
Flying "school at Brooks Air
Force Base, Texas. His advanced
training was received at the Air
Service Advanced Flying School at
Kelly Field, Texas.
Prior to becoming the Chief of
Staff, his title was Deputy Com-mander
and Chief of Air Staff, a
position which he held from April
to June, 1947. Until April of that
year he had been Director of In-telligence
on the War Department
General Staff and Director of
Central Intelligence, from which
position he returned to active duty
with the Air Force.
During the first year of the war.
General Vandenberg assisted in
the organization of the Air Forces
in North Africa, and was appointed
chief of staff for the 12th Air Force
in the United Kingdom. In 1943 he
took over the Northwest African
Strategic Air Force and flew mis-sions
over Tunisia, Italy, Sardinia,
Sicily, and Pantelleria.
In the European theater in 1944,
he was made Deputy Air Com-mander-
in-Chief of the Allied Ex-peditionary
Forces. In the summer
of 1944, he became commanding
general of the Ninth Air Force, in
Great Britain, a post he held until
he was named assistant chief of
staff at Air Force Headquarters.
During the war he was awarded
the Silver Star, the Distinguish-
GEN. HOYT S. VANDENBERG
—US Air Force Photo
Washington, D. C.
ed Flying Cross, and the Legion
of Merit, the latter award being
given for his organizational work
in Africa with the Northewest
African Strategic Air Force.
He had previously received tho
Distinguished Service Medal for
his services as a member of the
Plans Division in the Office, Chief
of Air Corps, and as operations
and training officer of the Air Staff
in 1939. It was in this year that
he had gradauted from a three
year course at the Army War
College.
It is of interest that the General
is a rated command pilot, combat
observer, aircraft observer, and
technical observer, and that for a
large number of sorties against
the enemy during the war, he re-ceived
the Air Medal and four Oak
Leaf Clusters. He also posstssM
the Bronze Star.