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In this edition... l Melton appointed to Board of Visitors. 1 McCleskey on uwith Good Reason" ...... 2 Barr named Assistant Dean ................ 2 Pierpaoli named Asst. to the Supt....... 2 VMl and AUI sign agreement ............... 3 Cadets efforts recognized .................... 3 Superintendent's book available ......... 3 New Faculty, Staff, and ROTC ••••••.•••••• 4 New Athletic Stqff ............................... 5 Author to speak at VMl ....................... 5 Jenkins named Parent Relations Dir. .. 6 Tenure/Promotions .............................. 6 On August 17, David B. Ellington (center) became the third generation of Ellington to enter Room Service for Cadet Computing ..... 6 VMI as the first cadet to sign the matriculation book. His father Dr. David A. Ellington '71 (left) Undergraduate Research Symposium . 6 talks with his son and his brother rat Col. Mike Strickler, VMI Public Relations Director. Cadet Ellington's grandfather, the late Clyde L. "Duke" Ellington '43 started the tradition. The elder Adams named Foundation Exec. V.P. ... 7 Ellington served as athletic director at VMI for nearly 10 years. Photo by Rockbridge Weekly. Cadets participate in MTV series ........ 8 Middle East Coriference ....................... 8 Melton '67 appointed to Board ofVisitors Three current members also receive appointments Cadets featured in commercial ........... 9 T. Carter Melton Jr., VMI Class of 1967, has been Center established at VMl ................. 10 appointed to the VMI Board ofVisitors for a four-year term VMl Theatre Fall Production ............. 10 by James S. Gilmore III, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Governor Gilmore also re-appointed three 1998 Fall Sports Schedule ................ 11 current members: Rhett Clarkson '61, S. Waite Rawls III Potpourri ........................................... 12 '70, and Anne C. Woodfin. New football initiatives ..................... 13 Mr. Clarkson and Mrs. Woodfin begin their second four-year term while Mr. Rawls, who was appointed last Study Abroad Fair at VMl ••••••••••..•••••• 13 year to fill an unexpired term, begins his first four-year Exhibit continues in Lejeune Hall ..... 13 term. Mr. Melton has served with the Rockingham Memorial Physics students active ..................... 13 Hospital in Harrisonburg since 1974. He quickly rose to ..... 1st Reunion Weekend Schedule ......... 13 the position of administrator and Chief Executive Officer T. Carter Melton, Jr. ROTC Corner ..................................... 14 of Rockingham Memorial in 1978 and is currently president of the Hospital, the Hospital Foundation, Rockingham Health Care and the Valley Wellness Center. Third Class Officers .......................... 15 Melton is involved with many other agencies in the valley of Virginia and Calendar qf Events ............................ 16 throughout the Commonwealth. He is a long-time member and past-president of the Blue Ridge Hospital Council, chairman of the fund raising committee for the EEO Statement .................................. 16 Medical College of Virginia Foundation Board, and on the board of directors of the Shenandoah Shared Hospital Services. He is also on the Virginia Health Cost Review continued on page 15 McCleskey to be featured on Pierpaoli appointed as With Good Reason Radio Show Assistant to the Superintendent Lt. Col. N. Turk McCleskey VMI Superintendent Major USMCR, associate professor of General Josiah Bunting, III '63 has history and politics, will represent the announced the appointment of Paul Institute in September on the public G. Pierpaoli, Jr., as assistant to the radio program, With Good Reason. superintendent. He began his duties The program can be heard locally on August 24 and holds the rank of WMRA-FM (90.7), Sundays at 3:30 lieutenant colonel in the Virginia p.m. and on WVTF-FM (91.9), Militia. Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Pierpaoli comes to VMI from the Lt. Col. McCleskey will be joined University of Arizona where he was a by historian Philip Morgan of the visiting assistant professor of social College of William and Mary in a sciences. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State show entitled "Uncommon Bonds: Black Culture in 18th University and is a 1984 graduate of Hampden-Sydney College. Century America." McCleskey and Morgan will discuss how Pierpaoli is the author of numerous articles and has made prior to 1820, three times as many Africans came to American many presentations on World War II, the Korean Conflict, and shores as Europeans. Most lived in the Chesapeake region of Virginia and Maryland or in the low country of South Carolina the Cold War. He has served as assistant editor of Diplomatic and Georgia. While African-Americans in the two regions History, the journal of the Society for Historians of American shared the common bond of slavery, their daily lives were very Foreign Relations and his new book, Truman andKorea: The different. The show will air the week of September 11-16. Political Culture ofthe Early Cold War, will be published by With Good Reason is a product of the Virginia Higher the University of Missouri Press in January. Education Broadcasting Consortium, a joint venture of He will assist the superintendent with special projects and Virginia's state-supported colleges and universities and the in the upcoming new capital campaign that will be undertaken Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. It is a half-hour by VMI and the VMI Foundation, Inc. "Paul's skill as a program which airs weekly on eleven public radio stations researcher and writer will be of invaluable assistance as we throughout Virginia and adjoining states with a potential begin a major new fund raising effort," said Bunting. Pierpaoli listening audience of 1.3 million. also plans to teach a course in the history department, beginning second semester. With Good Reason Broadcast Schedule Previous assignments include: instructor in history at Ohio WAMU-FM (88.5): Sundays midnight State University, from 1991 to 1992; adjunct assistant professor (Washington D.C., Northern Va., Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland) at Ohio Dominion College, from January to June 1995; and WCVE-FM (88.9): Sundays 7 p.m. (Richmond) visiting assistant professor at Hampden-Sydney, from 1995 to WCWM (90.7): Sundays 6 p.m. (Williamsburg) 1996. WETS-FM (89.5): Sundays 4 p.m. (Eastern Tenn. and far southwest Va.) He is a member of the American Historical Association, WHRV-FM (89.5): Fridays 1:30 p.m. (Tidewater) the Organizations of American Historians, the Society for WMRA-FM (90.7): Sundays 3:30p.m. (Charlottesville, Shenandoah Valley) Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Economic and WNSB-FM (91.1): Mondays 9 a.m. (Norfolk, Greater Hampton Roads) Business Historical Society, Pi Sigma Alpha, the national WVRU-FM (89.9): Wednesdays 1:30 p.m. (Radford/Blacksburg) political science honor society, Phi Kappa Phi, and Phi Alpha WVST-FM (91.3): Tuesdays 8 p.m. Theta, the national honorary history association. (Petersburg, Hopewell, Colonial Heights) WVTF-FM (89.1): Wednesdays 7 p.m. (Roanoke, southwest Va.) WYCS (91.5): Mondays 8 a.m. and 9:30p.m. (Yorktown) ([[{Je 3/nstitute JL{eport Editor: .................................................. Burton R. Floyd, III Susan Barr named Supervising Editor: .............................. Col. Mike Strickler Contributing writers: ....................................... Chris Clark Assistant Dean of Faculty Tom Joynes Susan Barr has been named assistant dean of faculty at Maj. Chuck Steenburgh Virginia Military Institute effective August 15 with promotion to colonel. She had served as acting assistant dean since August The Institute Report is 1997. issues are printed during Her duties as assistant dean will include service as liaison items, or address changes to faculty committees, the academic advising program, and VMI Public Relations faculty development. She will also serve as manager for policy Telephone 540-464-7207 with regard to the Board of Visitors and the Academic Board Fax 540-464-7583 continued on page 10 E-mail: [email protected] Page2 The Institute Report, September 11, 1998 VMI and AUI sign agreement VMI has signed a cooperation agreement with AI Akhawayn University. The Nationally acclaimed historian agreement will allow VMI and author Stephen E. Ambrose cadets to study at AUI in talks with Major General Josiah Morocco and also allow for Bunting Ill in Jackson Memorial Hall. Ambrose spoke to a near faculty exchanges between the capacity crowd on September 4 two schools. and had a book signing the next The agreement will pro day in the George C. Marshall vide VMI and AUI the oppor Museum. His latest book tunity to strengthen their entitled "Citizen Soldiers" has academic programs and pro quickly reached the New York Times Top 10 best seller list. vide a good learning environ ment for their students. In signing the agreement, VMI superintendent Major Gen eral Josiah Bunting III com mented that "The best and brightest young people should be educated outside their own culture. This is by far the best hope of our world for the fu An Education For Our Ti1ne ture." Col. Peter W. Hoadley, Superintendent's Book Now Available professor of civil engineering An Education for Our The purpose for Adam's version of Cardinal Newman's at VMI will teach at AUI this Time, by VMI Superintendent college will be to train Idea of the University that semester while Dr. Abdellah Major General Josiah Bunting "virtuous and disinterested addresses the basic Chekayri from AUI, will serve III, has been released