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General Marshall Is Dead VfRiftWiA MILITARY INSTITUTE, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 23, 1959 ' NUMSEK 5 General Marshall Is Dead VMl's Most Famous Alumnus Dies At 78 'General of the Army George Catlett Marshall '01, the most illustrious and famous graduate of the Virginia Military In- stitute, died last Friday, October 16, 1959, at 6:08 o'clock PM, at Walter Reed Army Hospital. He was 78 years old. Major General William H. Milton, Jr. VMI Superintendent^ issued the following announcement: "It is with grief that the Super-©- intendent announces the death on tv/entieth century; it was, ratlher, 16 October of General of the Army qualities of the heart — unshake- George Catlett Marshall, Class of able integrity, devotion to the high- 1901. General Marshall had main- est cans of duty, and tenacious taitied a close relationship with determination. Such steadfast ad- V.M.I, activities following World herence to principles of service War 11, serving as a member of and honor should be an inspiration the Board of Vistors from 1946 to to all who can know of the achieve- 1954 and its president for several menst' of this eminent public ser- months in 1950 and 1951 and as a vant." member from 1946 until his death "In tribute to General Marshalli on the Board of Directors of the v/hose memory will be perpetuated V.M.I. Foundation. He was presi- by the economic recovery plan for K devastated Europe that was con- dent of the latter organization in ceived during his tenure as bee- 1949 and 1950 and has been Chair- ir' retary of State and for which he waa man of the Board since June 1950. awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and When General Marshall entered which bears the name of the Mars- V.M.I, his father wrote the Super- hall Plan, the flags' at the Virginia intendent, "I send you my youngest Military Institute will be flown at and Last. He is bright, full of life, half staff until after a memorial and I believe will get along very- service to be held m Jackson Mem- well. ." This modest promise was orial Hall at 1230 Wednesday 21 strikingly fulfilled in "the years of October." General Marshall's cadetship and subsequently. As a cadet General CALENDAR OF EVENTS Marshall served successively as first 23 11:30 PM. Pre-game cheer ranking corporal, first ranking ser- geant,. and first' ranking captain. His rally and torchlight parade. career as Chief of Staff of the 23 10 PM Open Hop, formal, GENERAL GEORGE CATLETT MARSHALL '01 United States Army in the greatest gymnasium. Music by the Buddy war ever fought by this nation and Morrow Orchestra. his later service as Secretary of 23 2:30 PM Homecoming fool?- Corps Pays State and Secretary of Defense are hall game, VMI vs. Davidson Col- McCarthy Delivers well known. lege. Homage To A man of exceptional abilities, 24 Concert by the Buddy Mor. it was not qualities" of mind alone row Orchestra in the gymnasium, Gen. Marshall that earned for him a position as i following the football game, Memorial Address one of the truly great men of the 24 9 PM Homecoming Hop, gym. The Virginia Military Insti- Yesterday afternoon in Arlington National Cemetery, on a tute paid its final respects to gentle hillside overlooking Washington and the Potomac, a General-of the Army George group of old friends gathered at a graveside to say farewell ^atlett Marshall in a special to General of the Army George Catlett Marshall. One might ceremony here Wednesday, have supposed that this company would consist of cabinet offi- 20th October. cers, amoassadors, generals, and admirals. There were, in- A memorial service for the deed, a few men of fame and position, but only those few who soldier-statesman and 1901 graduate of VMI was held at 12:30 P. M. in had made impressions upon General Marshall through con- the Institute's Jackson Memorial geniality and affection, rather than through rank or station. Hall, before the 1,000-nien Corps The others present ranged from associates of his school days, of Cadets and visitors. his early service in China and the Phillippines, and his re- Funefal services for the 78-year- old former Army Chief-of-Staff, tirement at Leesburg, to his orderly and his old driver. Secretary of State, and Secretary The character of this assemblage reminded me once again of Defense were held the twentieth of the simplicity and sincerity of this great man, which stood ©•f October in Washington. in sharp contrast to what the record shows of his high achieve- ' Brigadier General Frank J. Mc- Carthy, U. S. Army Reserve, who ments. S was closely associated, with General Even before the First World War, when General Marshall Marshall during and after the World i was a first lieutenant, General Franklin Bell described him as War 11 years, gave the address at "the greatest militai-y genius in America since Stonewall the memorial sei-vice. The Rev. nhomas V. Barrett, rector of Lex- Jackson" and added, "Keep your eye on George Marshall." ington's Robert E. Lee Memorial After the First World War General Pershing, on whose Episcopal Church, gave the invoca- staff General Marshall had served as a colonel, referred to tion and benediction. him as the finest officer produced by that conflict. McCarthy, a VMI graduate, served At the memorial service for General Marshall. From left to right: Maj. Gen. William H. Milton. Superintendent; the Reverend Tho- During the Second World War when Prime Minister Church- as secretary df the War Department General Staff when General Mars- mas Barrett; and Brig. Gen. Frank McCarthy, Public Relations (Coutinued on I'uge 4) (continued on page 2) Director of Twentieth Ceiitury-Fox, who gave the address. Anned Forces Column by John B. Gary Marshall Model Cadet With the sad passing of George Catlett Marshall, one of made a deal with a roommate, one of the laziest of VMI's perennial the undisputabiy great men of the century, much has been succession of gross privates. Mars- noted about his distinguished career of service to his nation, hall and his third roommate cleaned at\d indeed to the whole world, as a soldier and a statesman. their room for MI ever morning Every present and past cadet of VMI is well acquainted with of the year but the name of L. Marshall's adult life, but perhaps even more interesting, and Nicholson was posted eve^ single week. as room orderly. Nicholson certainly less well known, are the facts surrounding his cadet- did not lift his finger to flick away sh.ip. a speck of dust, but, should the George Marshall was born in^ room be "boned" for swrte failing, Ur.iontown, Pennsylvania, and .mat- 'admiration of the Corps for his it was Niehiolson who received the riculated at VMI as a late arrival silence, and the third class declared dem^erits and walked the penalty in September, 1897. Consequently, a year-long amnesty for all the oc- tours! because the current fourth class cupants of Room 88.- Success Tinged With Daring •W..S the largest in the history of Pug MarshaJl's rifle was easily ' Marshall became Interested in VMI, he was assigned to Room 88, spotted; he paid Sergeant Wolf, an football in his firstdass year, and, the next-to-Jast room on the third old Regular Army noncom, two and despite the popular rumor that the istoop, a situation, which then, as one-half dollars to polish the wal- First Captain considered only train- now, placed its rat occupants at a nut stock of his Springfietld to a fine, ing-tahle food of sufficient quality decided tactical disadvantage, as lustrous finish. Already he was be- for his consumption, proved hiimself they were forced to run a giauntlet coming a paragon of military neat- to be, according to a University of of bloodthirsty third's in order to ne.ss. Virginia coach, "the best tackle reach the relative security of their in the South." ov/i quarters. iln his lecture, Pogue charac- terized Marshall las "not a cadet His spirit of adventure was shown Speaking of Marshall's selection who made friends easily or who had in his consistent practice of "running of VMI, Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, in the block" to visit bis finance's, Lily many antimatq friends. Some say Photograph of Gen. George C. Marshall when he last visited the th* Dance Memorial Lecture of he was aloof and even brusque. Cole's, who lived just outside Limits Institute. At this time he addressed the graduating Class of 1956 in A.;)ril, 1958, stated, "It has been Certainly he would have been called Gate. As for academics, Marshall Cocke Hall. sa d that the General came here a grind." His mind and heart were was not a brilliamt s'tudent at first, bc-jause he failed to get an appoint- full of serious and lofty purpose. and his early grades were often low. nvinl to West Point. This stpry has He worshipped the memory of the However, as would be expected from •been disproved by one of his early stern, austere, fanatically religious a person of such determination. biographers, who notes that the General Jackson; he became an 'his grades improved steadily, and he General's older brother came here ar;l 'that the General decided to authority on the tactics and strategy ; was graduated in the,upper half of the Battle of New Market. He : ^^^ foUow in his foot-lteps. From the first he seems to have determined was not without a grand sense of i During his last year.
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