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Gen. Biddle Views Institute Fought v'V-T'. "-.a.' ' r?' VOLUME U VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, FEBRUARY 2, 1962 NjalBER 14 VMI Band Legislature Cuts Budget To Record First Album \a. General Assembly In the last few years, the VMI Regimental Band has become a very permanent fixture in the musical pleasures of both alumtni Hears ShelFs Request and people who have heard the band perform in the Virginia area. ment items. Gen. Shell was ac- Because of increasing demands by VMI Authorities companied to Richmond by Col. these Interested patroos, the Regi- J. Carter Hanes, business execu- mental Band has consented to pro- Ask Restoration tive; and Col. J. Marlowe Harper, duce a recording featuring the VMI treasurer. marching music by which it has General George R. E. Shell, VMI gained its fame throughout the superintendent, appeared before a General Assemibly joint committee South. Friday to urge the legislators to re- The recording will 6onsist of the store cuts made in the Institute's traditional VMI school songs: The budget requests for 1962-64. Tribute, Hail Vavisty, and The VMI Six Virginia colleges were mak- Spirit; marches.used by thfe Band ing similar pleas before a joint in parades both on the hill and session of the Senate Finance and in various functions where it per- House Aippropriations committees. forms, and the Military Medley. By The schools were asking for re- the selection of these songs, Cap- storation of items trimmed from tain Joseph Pearce, director of the their requests in the proposed state Regimental Band, feels that the budget submitted to the General Col. F. JI. Barksdale, right, receives the first community ser- music the cadets of VMI are as Assembly by former Governor J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. vice citation to be given by the Lexington-Roclibridge Chamber sociated with by the public can be of Commerce from M. W. Paxton, Jr., chamber president. presented in a favorable and ac- Gen. Shell asked for restoration of more than $391,000 in capital ceptable manner. outlay funds in the following pri- The record itself will be a 33 1/3 ority: $65,000 restored in addition LP manufactured by a leading to the $445,000 in the budget for Col. Barksdale Receives Record Company. Its release is an adimnistration buiWing; $230,- slated for 1 June 1962 and the 000 for inH>rovements to the athle- price will be $3.98. Through the tic field; $39,000 for rehabilitataon DAN CORSETTI sales of this record, the Band will work on a Scienw lUll; and $57,000 gain the funds it needs to cover for the same work on the chemistry Community Citation travel expenses incurred by going area. to and from various functions. The VMI superintendent also ask- G>rsetti Retires CploneV Flournoy H. Barksdale, consistent excellence that has made ed for restoration of $124,742 in military executive at the Virginia it the envy of other communities." maintenance and operating funds, After 30 Years Military Institute, was jHrvsented, A native o< Ha)«<aM CouMy-Md Gioecloi^s Have of whieh $33,505 represented e<}ui^ the Lexington Chanvber of Com- a veteran of World War II, Colonel Dan A. Corsetti, manager of the merce's community service citation Barksdale has been Military Execu- Daughter, Suzanne Frances Gloechner was brought Virginia iMilitary Institute's quar- for 1961 at the Chanvber's annual tive at VMI since 1946. He is a into the world at King's Daughters' termaster store and former post banquet last week. 1940 graduate of VMI, a member Wednesday, January 24, 1962 Hosipital in Staunton.- Captain bugler, will retire today after an association with VMI reaching back The citation represmted recogni- of the Army reserve and active in Gloeckner ('59) is prfes^ntly as- saw an addition to the family of to Janu^, 1926. tion Colonel Barksdale's leading stffairs of the Lexington Presby- sociated with the VAH Department Capt. and Mrs. Kurt M. Gloeckner. A native of Italy, where he was part in sustaining the Rockbridge terian Church. On that date little Miss Suzanne of Mechanical Engineering. bom near Rome, Corsetti is one Concert-Theater Series for more of the few remaining from the than a decade. The Series brings days when the VMI corps of cadets to Lexington outstanding perform- marched to the music of a 16-piece ers in music and drama, includ- band made up of musicians who ing an annual concert for Lexing- also served in other capacities ton and Rockbridge County school around the Institute. children by the National Symphony VMI legend has it that it was Orchestra. not unknown for a man to be hired for his musical abilities and then The citation said the Chamber put to work in the post bart)er of Commerce honored a man who shop. The old band was'replaced "through outstanding civic leader- by the present crack 105-man cadet ship has greatly enriched the life band following Worid War U. of this community. As president Mr. Corsetti, who has been em- of the Rockbridge Concert-Theater , ployed in the cadet store for 30 Series for fourteen of its sixteen I yeiars and has measured counties years of operation, he has personal- ' cadets for their uniforms, came ly directed virtually every phase of to America as a youth in 1914 and served as an enlislecr man and its activity." Colonel Barksdale's bandsiman in the Army. At the success with the series, the cita- , time he came to VMI he was play- tion concluded, has given it "a ing trombone in a motion picture , theater pit orchestra in Spartan- I burg, S.C. Senator Gore To^ Mr. Corsetti plans to continue ! living in Lexington following re- Speak At W&L tirement. Senator Albert Gore, Democrat of Tennessee, will be the principal C. W. Roundtable speaker on February 13 at the open- ing session of the Eighth Annual International Relations Week at To Visit Battlefield Washington and Lee. Current Chairman of the Senate Foreign Major General William S. Biddle (U.S. Army, Captain Ed Carlsen Inspect the corps. On Sunday, 4 February, the Civil Relations Subcommittee on Africa, Ret.), accompanied by Col. Smith and Cadet 1st. War Roundtable will nwke a trip Senator Gore began his congress- to Fredericksburg, Virginia, to ional experience twenty-three years visit the historic site where the ago when he was elected to the Battle of the Wilderness was H<utse of Representatives. Since his Gen. Biddle Views Institute fought. This trip will replace the election to the Senate in 1952, one cancelled on, December 10, Senator Gore Ivas served on the By Mike Gerstein named Commandant of Cadets at plans include visits to VPI, the 1961. Senate Finance and Foreign Rela- Major General William S. Biddle, Pennsylvania Military College and Citadel, Texas A&M, and the Air Ten cadets, including the club's tions Committees and on the Joint former deputy commanding general as such, was particularly interested Force Academy. President, Larry Jackson, will Committee on Atomic Energy. of the Fifth U.S. Ai*my, visited in observing the operation of the General Biddle will be the first leave very early Sunday morning. The Washington and Lee Interna- the Virginia Military Institute this Commandant's office at VMI. Prior permanent Commandant of Cadets Under the direction of Major Le- tional Relations Week will be held past week. During this thi'ee-day to his visit to the Institute, he had at RMC; up to now, this position wane and Captain Patton, they through the fifteenth of February, visit he vi<^wed the facilities of the already observed operations at the has been held by a regular army will stay in the Frederick*itrg with emphasis on important con- Institute and the activities of the United States Military Academy officer on a tour of duty. area during the day, visiting both siderations in the field of foivign Corps of Cadets. and Norwich University in Ver- Three-fourths of the student the battlefield and the museum relations. General Biddle has recently been mont. General Biddle's future (Continued on Page 3) there. Weir Appointed National Symphony To Cadet Chaplain The Reverend Thomas E. Weir, director of the Lexington Wesley Give Afternoon Concert Foundation, has been appoint^ chaplain to cadets at the Virginia l,eiingtoTi. Feb. 3—The National "The Star Spangled Banner," Military Institute. The Reverend fiymrthony Orchestra will perform "American Salute" by Gould, the Weir will coordinate the activities for this year's Lexington area First Movement from "Symphony 5tu- of the seven denominational chap- d'^nt Iconcert next Thursday under No. 35 in D Major" by Mozart, lains and ministers for student tbje- baton of Assi^ant Conductor Bach's "Jesu Joy of Man's De- work maintained by Lexington Llojxi Geisler. siring," and Third Movement from churches, direct the activities of Geisler will 'be making his sec- "Symphony No. 5 in E minor" by Dvorak. the cadet religious council and ond appearance in Lexington at cadet church clubs, be responsible tKe 1^30 p.m. public concert in the for conduct of Protestant chai^l ViMI iFieldhouse. Children from services held in Jackson Memorial saune-; 16 schools in the county and \ MI Instructors Ifell at VMI each Sunday, and Lexirtgton will be present for the counsel cadets on personal prob- special concert, which is under the lems. 6i»ns»rship of the Rockbridge Conduct Research A native of Washington, North Ertuoiitipn Association. Carolina, the Reverend Weir at- Seven members of Virginia Mili- Mr;. Francis Drake ,a member of tended Roanoke College, the Uni- tary Institute's civil engineering ttie Washington and Lee Univer- versity of Virginia, and the Uni- department are participating in sity faculty, also will be making versity of South Carolina where the national fall-out shelter survey he ius sec6nd appearance at the stud- received his bachelor of scienic<9 being conducted under the auspices ent concert as narrator for "Peter degree in 1945.
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