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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 (Contnued on page 6) 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. - 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- (Contnued on page 6) 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.
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Repository | Virginia Military Institute Archives |
Collection | VMI Cadet Newspaper |
Title | VMI Cadet. April 28, 1952 |
Issue Date | 1952-04-28 |
Volume/Number | Volume 42, number 26 |
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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Full Text Search | 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 (Contnued on page 6) 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. - 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- (Contnued on page 6) 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. |