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 . 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 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 ) 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 and is leaders whose bent is to philosophical issues and as visiting professor of arabic available in bookstores command not to chatter, to current massive confusions at VMI this semester. throughout the country. lead not to criticize, to serve about what constitute a General Bunting's third book, not to whine, and to give proper education," wrote published by Regnery rather than calculate the Crocker. "Your letter is Publishing, Inc., sketches a costs." providential - in a way," Cadets efforts blueprint for the ideal "Josiah Bunh"ng has a clear responded Bunting . "I have American college. idea ofwhat alls us, and he been thinking about these recognized John Adams, a billionaire setsforth a cure superbly in things for thirty years." He In a letter received in July industrialist, high-tech his imaginative tale, An wrote Crocker saying he could by the office of the superinten­ pioneer and war hero is dying Education For Our Time. The present a completed dent, Governor James S. of cancer, and in the months ideas setforth are those ofa manuscript by July 1998. deeply thoughiful, highly Gilmore, III expressed his and before his death, he From the middle of July to articulates his vision for this principled man who loves near the start of school, the Commonwealth's appre­ learnlng.•. this is a profound ciation and admiration of fictional college in a series of Regnery Publishing has been letters to his lawyers. He will and provocative hook, a promoting the book and Gen. cadet's efforts in assisting with hook to cheer about." endow the college with his Bunting has made many radio the cleanup of the Petersburg DavidMcCullough, entire fortune, and it will open bestselling authorofTruman. and television appearances. He National Battlefield. in the fall of 2000 set in the has been hosted by "The G. Governor Gilmore stated High Plains of Wyoming. In November 1996, Gordon Liddy Show", National in the letter that "In a world This college will be General Bunting was Public Radio, C-Span, and filled with questions about our radically different than any approached by Harry Crocker, CNBC's "Hardball with Chris youth's motivation and ideals, college existing today. Says Executive Editor of Regnery Matthews," and the book has it is gratifying to hear about a Adams, "The things our Publishing, about his interest been featured in USA Today, group of young men and country requires are simply in writing a book presenting National Review, The Ameri­ women who are willing to give not the things our colleges are his vision of the ideal can Spectator, Wall Street their time to make Virginia a prepared to deliver. So let us American college. "I'm Journal, Newsweek and better place for all." have our shot." thinking of the Josiah Bunting Weekly Standard Magazine

The Institute Report, September 11, 1998 Page3 New Faculty, Staff, and ROTC Officers

Keith E. Alessi Maj. Atin Basu Major Wade E. Bell Daniel Bettendorf David Bouteiller lnstr., Econ. and Business Asst. Prof., Econ. and Business Asst. Prof., Biology lnstr., Math and Computer Administrative Intern B.S., Wayne State Univ.; B.S., Calcutta Univ.; M.B.A., B.S., M.Ag., Univ. of Florida; Science. B.A., Washington & Athletic Department M.B.A., Univ. of Michigan Xavier Labor Relations Ph.D., University of Vermont Lee Univ.; M.S., Medical B.S., Virginia Tech Institute; Ph.D. Univ. of Miss. College of Virginia

Abdellah Chekayri lan Crump Lt. Col. Helen Emmitt Toru Hanahara Maj. Jon-Michael Hardin Vis. Prof. of Arabic lnstr., English and Fine arts Assoc. Prof., English and Fine Visiting Teaching Asst. and Asst. Prof., Mechanical Graduate, Mohammed V A.B., Oberlin College; Arts. A.B., Bryn Mawr Lect., japanese Culture and Engineering. B.S., M.S., Univ. o1 Univ.; Ph.D., Paris VIII Univ. Ph.D., Univ. of California at College; Ph.D., Univ. of Language South Carolina; Ph.D., Univ. o1 Berkeley California at Berkeley Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Aaron B. Hickman Eileen Hinks Nancy Hostetter Capt. Scott A. Jackson, USA Capt. Valerie F. Jackson, USI lnstr., Chemistry lnstr., Chemistry Asst. Athletic Academic Asst. Prof., Military Science Asst. Prof., Military Science B.S., Ursinus College; Ph.D., B.S., VMI; M.S., Northern Advisor B.A., Univ. of Notre Dame B.A., Univ. of Notre Dame Temple Univ. School of Arizona University B.S., Mary Baldwin College Medicine

Mary Jane Mayerchak Capt. D. Monique Minnick, USAF Col. Thomas B. Moncure, USAF Ross T. Thomas Eric V. Thompson lnstr., Modern Languages. B.A., B.A., Angelo State Univ.; Prof. of Aerospace Studies. lnstr., Physics and Astronomy lnstr., History Univ. of California/Berkeley; M.A., Univ. of Oklahoma B.A., VMI; M.A., Central B.S., Univ. of Virginia; M.S., B.A., Vasser College; M.A M.A., Univ. of Virginia Korea campus Michigan Univ. Ph.D., Penn. State Univ. Univ. of Virginia

Page4 The Institute Report, September 11, 19~ New Faculty, Staff, and ROTC Officers

Note: Captains Carl E. Rhodes, Ill (B.S., VMI) and Capt. Christopher). Whittaker (B.A., VMI), USA who will be Assistant Professors of Military Science in the Army ROTC department will arrive in October.

Capt. Charles S. Walls, USA Col. Kuen-huei Wu Steven C. York Asst. Prof., Military Science Assoc., Prof., Political Science lnstr., Chemistry B.S., U.S. Military Academy Chinese Armed Forces General B.S., Radford Univ.; Ph.D., Staff College; Ph.D., Paris Virginia Tech University New Athletic Staff

Jack Baker W.M. "Mic" Grant, Jr. David Jolly Reggie Lawrence Asst. Football Coach Asst. Lacrosse Coach Strength Coach Asst. Football Coach B.A., VMI B.A., Hampden-Sydney College B.A., Newberry College B.A., N.C. State Univ.

David Merritt Ron Reece Shad Santee Asst. Football Coach Asst. Football Coach Asst. Football Coach B.A., N.C. State Univ. B.S., Union College B.A., N.C. State Univ.

Distinguished Author to speak at VMI VMI's Department of English and Fine Arts, Department of History and Politics, and Timmins-Gentry Music Society will sponsor a lecture "Priest of Music," by noted author William R. Trotter Thursday, September 24 at 7:30p.m. in the Turman Room ofVMI's Preston Library. There is no admission charge, and the public is invited. The subject of Trotter's presentation will be the Greek conductor Dmitri Mitropoulos, about whom Trotter has written Priest ofMusic: The Life ofDmitriMitropoulos (Amadeus Press, 1995), which was chosen one of the ten best music books of the year by National Public Radio, and nominated for the Deems Taylor Prize by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.

The Institute Report, September 11, 1998 PageS Jenkins named Room Service Director of Parent Relations for Cadet Computing John W. A. Jenkins, a 1997 By the end of September, the wiring of all barracks rooms graduate of VMI, assumed duties as will be completed to provide the Local Area Network (LAN) as Director of Parent Relations for the well as standard computing services for internet access and e­ Virginia Military Institute on June 1. mail. Jenkins will direct VMI's newly Last year these computer services were available in the established Office of Parent Giving. barracks study room, in the study carrells in Preston Library, Working closely with the Office of Cadet and in academic buildings. Cadets could take their laptop Affairs and the Parents Council, Jenkins will coordinate a wide array of computers to the barracks study room and plug in or use activities involving parents, with an eye desktop computers in the other areas. Now they can do the toward increasing parental support of same in their rooms. VMI in several areas. A $2.4 million revenue bond issue will cover all costs in "Parental support, both moral and financial, is an essential the project and allows each cadet cost-free access to internet ingredient of any college experience, particularly at VMI," said and e-mail privileges. With his or her own personal address, VMI Superintendent Maj. Gen. Josiah Bunting III. "John Jenkins the cadets can check on class schedules, their own grades, brings an understanding of the important role parents play in a demerit status, and numerous other items of on-post cadet's life." intelligence. Jenkins, a native of South Boston, Virginia, attended VMI Within the next few years every cadet will be required to after graduating from Halifax High School and attending have a laptop computer, with desktop models being banned Hargrave Military Academy for one year. An international studies major, Jenkins was also involved in Habitat for because of space limitations. Those with larger units are Humanity while at VMI and currently is the class agent for the grandfathered, but any new computers will have to be of the Class of 1997. laptop style. Undergraduate Faculty and Staff Research receive Tenure/Promotions Symposium On August 18, when VMI professor of mechanical associate professor of The student affiliate of opened its doors to the Class engineering; Maj. Kurt J. Ayau chemistry; Lt. Col. Bruce the American Chemical So­ of 2002, the Institute had four to Lt. Col. and associate Vandervort to colonel and ciety at VMI will host an un­ newly-tenured faculty and professor of English and fine professor of history; Lt. Col. dergraduate research eighteen faculty and staff who arts; Gabriel G. Balazs, Vonda K. Walsh, to colonel and symposium on September 19. Thepurposeofthesym­ received promotions for the professor and head of professor of mathematics and posium will be to highlight current academic year. electrical engineering to computer science; and Maj. the achievements made by Receiving tenure is: Col. colonel; Lt. Col. Thomas S. Zhicheng Zhang, assistant Spencer C. Tucker, professor Baur to colonel and professor student scientists during director of institutional the summer months. of history and John Biggs '30 of biology; Maj. Dale Davis, research to Lt. Col. Science faculty and stu­ Cincinnati Professor of director of international Receiving a change of dents from all of the physi­ Military History. Receiving programs and lecturer in status were: Col. William J. cal and health related fields tenure and promotion are: modern languages to Lt. Col.; Stockwell, associate dean of of study will participate. Maj. John E. Cerkeyto Lt. Col. Capt. Carole B. Green, deputy the faculty and director of the The symposium will be con­ and associate professor of Title IX officer and deputy VMI Summer Session to ducted in the form of a modern languages; Maj. assimilation coordinator to associate dean of the faculty; poster session. The sympo­ Robert L. McDonald to Lt. major; Lt. Col. Gary R. Knick, sium will be held in the Col. and associate professor of treasurer and associate Theresa M. Thompson, chemistry department. English and fine arts; and business executive to colonel; executive secretary in the Over 40 posters have Maj. Soe Than to Lt. Col. and Lt. Col. Ronald G. McManus, protocol office to assistant been registered with sub­ associate professor of director of post services to protocol coordinator as chief missions from VMI, W&L, mathematics and computer colonel; Lt. Col. w. Grigg warrant officer - 2 in the JMU, UVA, Va. Tech., science. Mullen, Jr. to colonel and Virginia Militia; and Col. Roanoke College, and Sweet Receiving promotions professor of civil engineering; Siegfried Weing, professor Briar College. Entries are were: Lt. Col. Susan L. Barr to Lt. Col. R. Wane Schneiter to andheadofmodernlanguages from departments of chem­ colonel and assistant dean of colonel and professor of civil to VMI Summer Session istry, biology psychology, the faculty; Lt. Col. J. Howard engineering; Maj. Karl D. director and professor and physics, electrical engineer­ Arthur to colonel and Sienerth to Lt. Col. and head of modern languages. ing and material science.

Page6 The Institute Report, September 11, 1998 Governor of the Commonwealth James S. Gilmore (center) plots strategy with members of his cabinet at the George C. Marshall Museum. Gov. Gilmore and 32 senior aides held a retreat August 6-8 at the Marshall Museum to discuss issues which affect state government. Photograph by W. Patrick Hinely.

Adams named Executive Vice-President of Foundation James L. Adams, a 1971 Foundation. "As a cadet and In addition to a B.A. in Strategy Division with the VMI graduate, has been then a staff member in the late English from VMI, Adams Joint Chiefs of Staff. named executive vice­ 70's, Jim has inside holds a M.A. in English "To develop the resources president of the VMI perspective of how the literature from James needed by VMI as it moves Foundation, Inc., the Institute functions. His Madison University and an into this new world is a critical Institute's private fund-raising professional and successful Ed.D. in educational mission for the VMI organization. He succeeds experience in development, leadership from the Foundation," said Adams. "I George H. "Skip" Roberts '68, fund-raising and managing University of Tennessee. accept this daunting who announced his retirement growing portfolios in two Adams has also remained leadership role with thanks earlier this year. military environments give active in the U.S. Army for the Trustees' confidence Adams has worked for him an edge also." Reserve. From 1977 to 1988, and a pledge of absolute the United States Naval Following two years of he was public affairs officer, dedication." Institute, an 80,000-member active duty service with the Media Relations Division and "The VMI Foundation professional society based in United States Army Adjutant Plans and Policy Division, plays a critical role in ensuring Annapolis, Maryland, since General School and four years Office of the Chief of Public that VMI remains an 1991. He was promoted to in the private sector, Adams Affairs, Office of the Secretary institution second-to-none director of membership and returned to his alma mater in of the Army. Following that and unique in higher development in October 1994. 1977 as public information assignment, he was public He assumed his duties at VMI officer. He left VMI in 1981 for education," added Adams. June 22. He oversees an a position as director of affairs officer with the "VMI now exists in an exciting endowment which is the university relations at the Directorate for Defense world of technological, social largest per student of any University of Tennessee at Information, Office of the and political change the speed public college or university in Chattanooga. Three years Assistant Secretary of of which would have dazzled the nation. later he joined ranks with The Defense for Public Affairs for the men who founded it, and "Jim returns to VMI with Citadel, as director of nine years. He was recalled to yet, the values upon which it some crucial talents that have development and capital active duty and served for six was established - duty, evolved through his working campaign director, a post he months in 1991 in support of integrity, and perseverance­ life," said G. Gilmer Minor, III held until moving to Operation Desert Storm. He is remain inviolate and '63, President of the VMI Annapolis. currently assigned to the invaluable."

The Institute Report, September 11, 1998 Page7 VMI and ''The Real World'' Cadets Participate in MTV Series ;-. -"""· Most people who know anything about VMI would think it bears little resemblance to the "real world" - at least on the surface. But, apparently to producers at M1V, those same characteristics that seem to VMI Cadets David Burns '98 (left) prepare VMI graduates quite and Nathan Blackburn '98 (top well for life in the "real world" center) with fellow Real World­ are also valuable in grooming Seattle cast members. The Real cadets for "The Real World"­ World airs at 10 p.m. Tuesdays on MTV with repeats shown several MTV's renowned real-life times weekly. soap-opera, now in its seventh iteration. Cadets David Burns '98 and Nathan Blackburn '98, were among 15,000 who auditioned for parts on the show last year in an open casting call made at college campuses across the country. After an extensive auditioning process -that involved several members ever to have known The shows, which have the accompaniment of trips to VMI by MTV each other prior to shooting been airing since June 9, rousing cheers from the producers and camera crews - toss them together in a included a premiere "casting stoops). - Burns and Blackburn were strange urban environment, special" that featured excerpts Burns and Blackburn, who selected to join the seven­ and roll the cameras. Prior of the initial interviews for had to take off the spring person cast for several months seasons of the show have each of the cast members, and semesters of their first class of taping m Seattle, been taped in cities such as information on their year to film the program, are Washington. New York, Los Angeles, and backgrounds. Much of the both returning to VMI this "The Real World" London. The end result is casting special focusing on year to complete their degrees. formula is to take a group of sort of a mixture of "Days of Burns and Blackburn was shot And the next time anyone total strangers - Burns and Our Lives," "Three's at VMI, including an questions VMI's relevance for Blackburn are unique in that Company," and "CBS News' announcement to the Corps of the "real world" - tell them not they are the first cast 48 Hours." their selection to the cast (to to be so sure! Middle East Conference at VMI For the seventh consecutive year, VMI, the National for two days of thought provoking panels, robust small group Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, and the U.S.-GulfCooperation discussion, and vigorous conversation and networking. Council Corporate Committee will host the annual U.S. Mideast A panel on the region's decreasing oil revenues and Policymakers Conference. On September 13-14, an array of increasing expenditures on education and training will fe(lture prominent speakers and panelists will examine U.S. foreign talks by The Honorable James A. Placke, Director of Cambridge policy goals in the region. The keynote speaker for the first day Energy Research Associates and a former Deputy Assistant is General Anthony C. Zinni, Commander-in-Chief of all U.S. Secretary of State; Dr. Shihab Jamjoom, a Saudi Arabian forces in the region. The opening session will be held at the corporate executive and former Deputy Minister of Hampton Inn Col Alto in Lexington with the second days events Information; and World Bank Senior Economist Dr. William held in the Turman Room of Preston Library on the VMI Post. Van Eeghan, who will share the Bank's newest research and This executive level forum at VMI, entitled "Dynamics of recommendations. Mideast Cooperation and Reform: Problems, Progress, For additional information on the conference call the Prospects" will gather select public and private sector leaders National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations at 202/293-0801.

PageS The Institute Report, September 11, 1998 ''Close Shave'' VMI, Cadets Featured in Norelco Commercial For three days in July, the VMI Post was the site location for filming a television commercial which began airing nationally on August 31. All scenes in the 45 and 30 second commercials advertising the new Norelco Advantage electric razor were shot at VMI, and almost all principal actors and seconds were VMI cadets. Initial contact for the project came to the Superintendent's office and was forwarded to public rela­ tions. Strickman-Ripps, a research firm in New York, wanted 30-50 male cadets at an academic/military institu­ tion to test an electric razor. This photo will appear in a full color advertisement for five national magazine publications beginning in Students would test the razor October. Cadet Schindler was one of the four principal cadet actors in the television commercial. for three weeks and be inter­ viewed before and after the testing period. The end result would be a commercial, possibly filmed at VMI, based on stu­ cadet second classman Ryan E. Doltz, third classman Scott F. dent responses. Mcinnis, first classman F. Marshall Luck, Jr., third classman Following an in-depth examination by Col. Mike Strickler, Daniel A. Schindler, and Maj. James L. Armstrong, assistant public relations director, and others both in and outside ofVMI, professor of naval science. the project was approved. Cadets tested the razor during the Scenes were filmed at the following locations: parade first session of summer school, and though not in the original ground, Barracks courtyard, Barracks room 139, Barracks plans, cadets were chosen as the actors on the strength of their sinks area, classroom in Mallory Hall, Cocke Hall locker room, taped interviews. Cocke Hall gymnasium, and the mud pit and obstacle course Gail Zeltman, agency producer for the commercial and at the Rat Challenge area. It was then the job of the folks at senior vice-president for D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, DMB&B to boil the hours of film into 45 and 30 second Inc. (DMB&B), said that they wanted to market test the razor commercials. around a concept. "We were searching for individuals who The Norelco Brand management loved the initial edit, and would be in need of a close shave on a regular basis," said following a few minor changes, the commercial began airing Zeltman. "Military cadets certainly fit that description." nationally the week of August 31st. The commercial is being aired A contract was signed for the agency to film the commercial on numerous networks and cable regulars such as ESPN, TBS, July 29-31 on the VMI Post. Included in the agreement was a TNT, USA, FOX, and live sports broadcasts. $12,500 site location fee paid to VMI. Filming began early on In addition to the television ads, the razor will be marketed the the 29th and was completed about 1 a.m. August 1st. Four through a color print ad featuring Cadet Schindler in coatee uni­ cadets and one faculty member were the principal actors with form. The ads begin running in October in: Mens Fitness, Roll­ another 15 cadets serving as extras. The principal actors were: ing Stone, ESPNMagazine, Spin, and Sporting News.

The Institute Report, September 11, 1998 Page9 Barr named Assistant Dean continued from page 2 and as coordinator for post­ graduate scholarships and Though not a newcomer to the VMI faculty, Col. Alan honor societies. Barr will also Barragona, professor of represent the Institute as English, participated in the institutional liaison to the new faculty/staff orientation Governor's Blue Ribbon held at Eagle Landing on Commission on Higher August 11-14. Barragona has some "funn on the high ropes Education, a 39-member course. commission charged with the development of a 25-year blueprint for higher education in the Commonwealth. Barr holds a Ph.D. in higher education admin­ istration from the University of Virginia. Her academic specialty focuses on the early career experiences of new Center for Economic Education established at VMI faculty in higher education as The Center for Economic Education was recently established at the Virginia Military well as on the development of Institute. The mission of the center is to prepare teachers of grades 1 through 12 to teach courses the academic career across the about or related to the field of economics. lifespan. Barr also holds a Attending the June 24 grand opening were: Joan Spence, president of the Virginia Council M.S. and B.A. in biology from on Economic Education; Teresa Ellison, director of instruction for Buena Vista schools; Brig. the University of Virginia and Gen. Alan Farrell, dean of the faculty at VMI; and Cmdr. Barbara Riester, director of the center. , The center is located in Scott Shipp Hall, the home of VMI's economics and business respectively. She served as department. director of the faculty and staff campaign and as development coordinatorfor the University of Virginia; as executive VMI Theatre Fall Production assistant to the president, "The Incredible Years," a compassionate play by Ev Miller, recalling a midwestern family's secretary to the Board. of life in the 1940s, will be the VMI Theatre's 1998 fall presentation. The play offers a rare look Trustees, registrar, and into a time of youth, as three young brothers come to grips with their individual challenges, instructor at Southern supported by loving, understanding parents. Blending humor and sadness, the play recalls Virginia College; and as memories that are a part of everyone's life. The play is directed by VMI Theatre Director J oellen academic dean and interim Bland, in cooperation with the Dramatic Publishing Company. head of school at Stuart Hall Opening on Wednesday, October 7, in a cabaret performance at 8 p.m. in Lejeune Hall at in Staunton, Va. VMI. The other cabaret performances (seating at tables with refreshments for sale) will be Barr is a member of the Thursday, October 8 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, October 11, at 2 p.m. Dinner theatre performances Association for the Study of will be featured on VMI's Parents Weekend on Friday, October 9, and Saturday, October 10, Higher Education, the with the buffet opening at 6:45 p.m. and the show following at 8 p.m. All performances will be American Association for on the 400 level of Lejeune Hall. Admission for just the show is $5 for adults, and $3 for senior Higher Education, the citizens and students, with cadets admitted free. American Association of Dinner theatre admission (dinner and show) is $18 for adults, $16 for students and senior University Women, The citizens, and $12.50 for cadets. The buffet will include carved roast beef, chicken breasts in Council for Advancement and special chefs sauce, wild rice, potatoes, green bean casserole, caesar salad, marinated tomato Support of Education and the and cucumber salad, rolls, butter, coffee, tea, and assorted desserts. Association of College Dinner theatre reservations require advance, non-refundable payment, with checks payable Administration Professionals. to the VMI Theatre and mailed to VMI Theatre, VMI Box 5, Lexington, VA 24450. She is also a member of the For further information, call the VMI Theatre Office, 540-464-7389, or Theatre Director, Rockbridge Area Master Joellen Bland, 540-463-7103, Ext. 235, or email Joellen Bland at . Gardeners Association.

Page 10 The Institute Report, September 11, 1998 1998 Fall Sports Schedule All times eastern, home events in boldface type. 1998-99 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 1998-99 TENNIS SCHEDULE

Date Opponent I Event Location Time Date Opponent I Event Location Time Sept. 13 Univ. of District of Columbia Home 1 p.m. Sept. 12 William & Mary Williamsburg, Va. 1 p.m. Sept. 22 Emory & Henry Emory, Va. 4p.m. Sept. 19 East Tennessee State johnson City, Tenn. 7p.m. Oct. 2-4 Old Dominon lnv. Norfolk, Va. TBA Home Sept. 26 Furman (Homecoming) 1 p.m. Oct.9-11 Washington & Lee lnv. Lexington, Va. TBA Oct. 3 Georgia Southern Statesboro, Ga. 1 p.m. Feb. 19 Davis & Elkins Home 2:30p.m. Oct. 10 Wofford (Parents Weekend)* Home 12:30 p.m. Feb. 20 Mary Washington Fredericksburg, Va. 1 p.m.

Oct. 17 UTC Chattanooga Chattanooga, Tenn. 7 p.m. Feb. 21 Fairmont State Home 10 a.m. 10a.m. Oct. 24 Morehead State Home 1 p.m. Feb. 27 Georgia Southern • Statesboro, Ga. Feb. 28 The Citadel • Charleston, S.C. Noon Oct. 31 Western Carolina Home 1 p.m. Mar.1 College of Charleston • Charleston, S.C. 1 p.m. Nov. 7 Appalachian State Boone, N.C. 1 p.m. Mar. 9 Washington & Lee Lexington, Va. (W&U 2:30p.m. Nov. 14 The Citadel* Home 12:30 p.m. Mar.11 UNC Greensboro • Greensboro, N.C. 2:30p.m. * Indicates game will be televised on Fox Sports South Mar. 12 North Carolina A& T Greensboro, N.C. Noon Mar.14 Appalachian State • Home 1 p.m. Mar.19 East Tennessee State • Johnson City, Tenn. 3:30p.m. Mar. 21 Chattanooga • Chattanooga, Tenn. 1 p.m. Mar. 28 Furman • Home 9a.m. Home 2p.m. 1998 SOCCER SCHEDULE Apr. 6 Davidson* Apr. 9 Mount St. Mary's (Md.) Emmitsburg, Md. 3 p.m. Apr. 11 Wofford • Home Noon Sept. 9 Radford Home 4p.m. Apr. 14-18 SC Championship Spartanburg, S.C. • Indicates match Miami I Kelme lnv. Tourn. Oxford, Ohio Home games in bold Sept. 12 vs. Western Michigan 3 p.m.

Sept. 13 vs. Miami (Ohio) 2 p.m. 1998 CROSS COUNTRY SCHEDULE

Date Event Location Start Times Sept. 20 St. Francis (Pa.) Loretto, Pa. 11 a.m. Sept. 12 Univ. of Virginia lnv. Charlottesville, Va. 10:30 (W) & 11:15 (M) Sept. 22 Liberty Lynchburg, Va. 7p.m. Sept. 19 Davidson lnv. Davidson, N.C. 9:00 (M) & 9:50 (W) Sept. 26 The Citadel • Home 11 a.m. Sept. 26 UNCG lnv. Greensboro, N.C. 1 :00 (WJ & 1 :40 (M) Oct. 3 Georgia Southern • Statesboro, Ga. 11 a.m. Oct.10 Furman lnv. Greenville, S.C. TBA Oct. 6 Appalachian State • Boone, N.C. 6 p.m. Oct. 17 VMIInv. Lexington, Va. 10:00 (W) & 10:45 (M) Oct.10 College of Charleston • Home 11 a.m. Oct. 31 SC Championship Davidson, N.C. TBA

Oct.13 • Davidson, N.C. 10:30 a.m. 1998-99 GOLF SCHEDULE Oct.17 Washington & Lee Home§ 1 p.m.

Oct. 24 UNC Greensboro • Greensboro, N.C. 7 p.m. Date Event/Location Oct. 28 Wofford College • Home 3 p.m. Sept. 16-18 Washington & Lee lnv. Oct. 31 Furman • Home 11 a.m. Lexington Golf & Country Club- Lexington, Va. Nov. 3 SC Tournament- First Round Campus sites Sept. 20-22 Virginia State Intercollegiate Championships Nov. 7-8 SC Tournament Davidson, N.C. Augustine Golf Club -Stafford, Va. • Indicates Southern Conference match Oct. 4-6 UNC Wilmington Belvedere lnv.

§ Indicates game played at Brewbaker Field in Lexington, Va. Belvedere Plantation Golf Club - Hampstead, N.C. Oct. 18-20 Chris Cothran/Radford University lnv. Home games in bold Draper Valley Golf Club - Draper, Va. Nov. 1-3 Davidson College Fall lnv. Birkdale Golf Club - Huntersville, N.C. First day of each event is the practice round. Spring schedule will be announced at a later date.

The Institute Report, September 11, 1998 Page 11 Potpourri •!• The introduction of the new Gateway Press Edition of Gorman '98, R. R. Snelling, H.M. Garraffo, T.F. Spande, J.W. Newman s Idea of a University is written by VMI Daly and J.H.C. Delabie. Superintendent, Major General Josiah Bunting III '63. Maj. Gen. Bunting's book- An Education for Our Time has •!• VMI's Women Recruitment Brochure received a Bronze been chosen as a main selection of the Conservative Book Club Award in the 1997 Admissions Advertising Awards competition for this fall. held by Admissions Marketing Report.

•!• Colonel Donald E. Thomas, professor of history, was one •!• An article entitled "The American Medical Political Action of 28 teachers and scholars chosen to attend a two-week Committee: Which Senators Get the Money, and Why?," institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, held this authored by Maj. Karen Gutermuth, assistant professor of summer at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Faculty economics and business, has been accepted for publication. It in attendance included such scholars as noted World War II historian, Gerhard Weinberg, from University of North is scheduled to appear in the Aprill999 edition of The Journal Carolina at Chapel Hill. The purpose of the institute was to ofHealth Politics, Policy and Law. prepare faculty to teach courses on the Holocaust. In the spring semester 1999, Col. Thomas will be offering an honors course •!• Maj. Lenna Ojure has been appointed as Learning on the history of the Holocaust. Disabilities Coordinator in the Learning Center. She will assist Lt. Col. Anna Crockett in providing a broad range of academic •!• Colonel Thomas W. Davis, professor of history, spent a support services and will also teach part-time for the teacher week in June at the University of Nebraska, where he read certification program in the psychology department. A 1970 advanced placement exams in European history for the College graduate of Harvard College, Maj. Ojure completed a M.Ed. in Board and Educational Testing Service. Later that month, he reading at Northeastern College of Education in 1973 and her chaired one of the sessions at the seventh international meeting Ph.D. in educational psychology from Virginia Tech in 1997. of the World History Association held at Colorado State University. Col. Davis now serves on a World History •!• In May, Maj. James Hentz was in Saudi Arabia for two Association committee of consultants who advise under­ graduate history departments initiating courses in world weeks on a Malone Fellowship, sponsored by the Washington, history. D.C. based Council on Arab- American Relations. In June, he presented a paper in Halifax, Canada at the annual Academic •!• Six poems by Lt. Col. Mary Balazs, associate professor of Council ofthe United Nations System (ACUNS) conference. English and fine arts, have recently been published. "Thistles" Major Hentz's paper entitled, "The Paradox of Regional appears in the summer 1998 issue of Shenandoah, the literary Cooperation and Security in Southern Africa: The Southern review of Washington and Lee University. "Father and African Development Community's (SADC) 'New Role'," was Daughter at the Swimming Pool" appears in the summer/fall presented at a panel that included scholars from the United issue of Whiskey Island Magazine, the literary review of Kingdom, Geneva, and Japan. In August, Maj. Hentz spent Cleveland State University. "Reject Shop" appears in the 1998 three weeks conducting research in South Africa. While there, issue of Pivot, an annual literary magazine published by he gave two lectures by invitation at Rand Afrikaans University Pennsylvania State University. "London Winter" and "Revising in Johannesburg. He also agreed to be the "external reader" Poems" appear in the spring/summer issue of Lumina, a for the Masters Committee of a Rand Afrikaans University biannual of prose and poetry and "A House Where Once I Once graduate student. Over Labor Day Weekend, Maj. Hentz Lived" appears in the thirtieth anniversary edition of the Roanoke Review. attended the annual American Political Science Association meeting in Boston where he presented the preliminary research •!• Col. Spencer C. Tucker, professor of history and John findings gathered in South Africa. Biggs '30 Cincinatti Professor of Military History, visited the Polish Air Force Academy at Deblin, June 17-21. He gave a •!• On September 7, Lt. Col. James S. Park, institute chaplain, number of lectures on U.S. military history, held discussions was promoted to colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. The with Superintendent Pilot Dr. Brigadier General Ryszard ceremony was held in Memorial Garden. Olszewski regarding possible future exchanges between VMI and the academy. Col. Tucker also represented VMI at academy •!• Colonels W. Wayne Neel and W. Grigg Mullen, Jr., graduation ceremonies. professors of civil engineering and 8 cadets participated in a public frame raising during the Labor Day weekend. The aid of •!• Maj. Zhicheng Zhang, assistant director of institutional the cadets was requested by the Timber Framers Guild, who research, and Col. R. Stephen RiCharde, director of insti­ had undertaken the project. Cadets and VMI faculty and staff tutional research, co-authored a paper entitled "Prediction and Analysis of Freshman Retention." The paper was presented by had previously worked with members of the Guild on VMI's Maj. Zhang at the 1998 annual conference of the Association trebuchet project and also a community service project in for Institutional Research held in Minneapolis on May 17-20. Effinger, Va. The frame raising consisted of assembling and •!• Col. Tappey H. Jones, professor of chemistry, attended raising a 6000 square foot public theater in Franklin Park in the 15th annual meeting of the International Society of Chemi­ Loudon County, Va. Cadets who helped with the project were: cal Ecology which was held at Cornell University, June 20-24. Speros V. Casey '01, Andrew D. Fuller '99, Eric J. He presented a poster entitled "Some Alkaloids Common to Gannon '01, GregoryL. Martin '01, John P. Morris '99, Ants and Frogs: Decahydro-quinolines and a Novel James P. Poulos '99, Kristopher S. Turpin '99, Jerry Quinolizidine." The poster was co-authored by Jeffrey S.T. B. Webb, II 'OO.

Page 12 The Institute Report, September 11,1998 Football reaches out to Corps, 1st Reunion Weekend Schedule Faculty with new initiatives Events for the 1st Alumni Reunion Weekend begin on In his second season as VMI head football coach, Ted Cain Thursday, September 24. The Class of 1973, celebrating its has continued his efforts to enlist the broader VMI community 25th anniversary, is the featured class. Alumni headquarters in the football program. One such example of this effort was will officially open on Friday morning, with individual class last year's addition of a VMI crest emblazoned with the motto "One Corps" to football uniform jerseys. This year, two new activities in the evening. programs continue this trend of unifying the VMI community On Saturday, September26, a class picture will betaken behind the athletic program: a "12th man" on the playing field on the steps of Preston Library (inclement weather location and a "Professor ofthe Week" on the sidelines. is Cocke Hall) beginning at 9:20 a.m. At 10 a.m., there will Popularized at Texas A&M, the "12th man" will be a walk­ be a memorial service for deceased class members in J.M. on, from the Corps of Cadets at large, who will play on the Hall, followed by a review at 11:30 a.m. A tailgate party will kickoff team at home football games. Symbolizing the follow on the parade ground. Next order of business will be importance of the Corps of Cadets as a "12th man," new players the football game with Furman at from the Corps will be utilized every week. Appearing in the at 1 p.m. The final event for the weekend will be a chapel opening game on September 5 against Lenoir-Rhyne was cadet service in Jackson Memorial Hall at 10 a.m. on Sunday Kevin Cook, a Rat from Covington, Virginia. morning. The "12th man" wears jersey # 12, to allow him to be easily recognized by the Corps and fans. "It's another step in trying to bring together the Corps and the athletes," noted VMI assistant coach Todd Varn. The 12th man revives a practice first instituted at VMI by former coach Eddie Williamson in the late 1980s. Physics students active In addition to a "12th man" on the field, two "Professors of Three second class physics majors were inducted into the the Week" will be on the sidelines. Two professors will be national physics honor society, Sigma Pi Sigma. Requirements selected each week with input from players and coaches, for induction into the society are: the student must have a grade according the Col. Don Jamison, academic advisor for point average no lower than 3.0, and possess a grade point intercollegiate athletics. "Professors ofthe Week" will eat the average in excess of 3.0 in all physics courses with no grade pre-game meal with the team on Saturday morning and attend the coaches' meeting with the team in addition to being present lower than a "C." In addition, the student must have taken at on the sidelines during the game. least one physics course beyond the introductory physics "I am hopeful that these athletes will recognize by my sequence. presence, that I, as a member of the faculty, am interested and On April 24, eleven physics majors attended the Mid­ supportive of their efforts on the athletic field as well as in the Atlantic Region Meeting of the Society of Physics Students classroom," says Maj. Roy O'Connor, assistant professor of (SPS), which was held in Baltimore, Md. The meeting was economics & business. "I believe that academics and athletics hosted by Loyola College. Cadets Daniel D. T. Dunn '98, Charles go hand-in-hand in shaping the growth and personal character Gallion '99, and Janchaysang Suwatwong '99 presented short development of our cadets and future leaders." O'Connor, talks on research projects which they worked on during the along with Col. Jack Page, professor of civil engineering, was spring semester. Faculty advisor to SPS at VMI is Maj. William selected to serve as "Professor of the Week" for the Lenoir­ C. McNairy, assistant professor of physics. Rhyne contest. On May 21, Cadets Charles Gallon '99 and Janchaysang "Art of the Snapshot" Suwatwong '99 presented a joint talk on the results of their exhibit continues in Lejeune Hall work accomplished during the spring semester at the annual meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science (VAS). The meeting "The Art of the Snapshot," an exhibit of photographs by was held at George Mason University. The title of the talk was Col. Edwin L. Dooley, Jr., assistant to the superintendent and "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Layered Tantalum secretary to the Board of Visitors, will be on display on the Disulfide and Tantalum Diselenide Compounds." The cadets upper level of Lejeune Hall through the middle of October. The were accompanied by their research advisor, Major William exhibit contains photographs taken over a 40-year period. W. McNairy. Accompanied by short interpretive essays, the photographs Maj. McNairy served as judge for papers presented by feature scenes and fragments of life from the American middle school and high school students attending the Junior southwest, Virginia, and Europe. Academy ofVAS on the day before the Senior Academy meeting began. While in attendance at the VAS meeting, Maj. MeN airy Study Abroad Fair at VMI was elected to serve as secretary for the astronomy, The Second Annual Study Abroad Fair will be held at VMI' s mathematics and physics section of the VAS. Responsibilities Lejeune Hall on September 17 from 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. of his office include the solicitation and preparation of abstracts Representatives from 13 organizations and institutions will be for talks to be presented at the VAS annual meeting in May present to discuss study abroad opportunities. 1999.

The Institute Report, September 11, 1998 Page 13 Buds. Mini-Buds training is designed to prepare midshipmen for SEAL training following commissioning. Along with the other training opportunities, four midshipmen enjoyed summer training aboard nuclear­ powered submarines. Graduating from Marine Officers' Candidate School was the highlight of the summer for nineteen midshipmen.

AFROTC Cadets Aim High for Summer Training This summer Col. Thomas Moncure, VMI class of '72 and distinguished ROTC graduate, took command of AFROTC Detachment 880. He returns to VMI after numerous command assignments and as a pilot with over 3100 hours in wide variety of Air Force aircraft. Also joining the Detachment 880 team Navy and Marine Corps Midshipmen this summer is Capt. Monique Minnick who previously was Return from Summer Training assigned to the Pentagon working in general officer matters. Capt Minnick, a personnel officer, is a 1990 graduate of San Summer training is an exciting and informative part of the Angelo State University and a distinguished graduate of ROTC. program for Navy ROTC scholarship midshipmen. During the AFROTC cadets from VMI/VWIL were involved in a wide summer months, each scholarship midshipman attends variety of unique and exciting training programs this past summer training for four to six weeks. During this period, the summer. Several fourth class cadets participated in the AS 100 midshipmen receive first-hand knowledge of life in "the fleet" Special Training Program, where they toured an active duty and receive valuable experience that will enhance their careers Air Force base and explored Air Force career opportunities, in the Navy and Marine Corps. missions, and benefits. Other fourth class cadets participated This summer the midshipmen took part in a wide range of in either the Air Force Academy Soaring Program, the Freefall training. Midshipmen Robert Arvin and William Ward took Parachute Training Program or the Combat Survival Training part in a live-fire exercise at Camp Wilson in Twenty-nine Program. Palms, Calif. During this exercise, they observed the actions of Seventeen third and second class cadets attended a four or a Marine Air Ground Task Force. Perhaps the most useful part five-week AFROTC Field Training (FT) encampment. During of their training was actually talking to the Marines about their their FT experience, cadets were presented with a multitude of operations and watching them work as a unit. challenges designed to hone their leadership, followership and Midshipman Landon Allen spent his summer training at teamwork skills. Cadets Ryan Cengeri, Brent Harms and Josh Mountain Warfare School. As a portion of this challenging Petry all earned distinguished graduate honors, the highest training, he attended a six- training exercise that award presented at field training; Cadet Charlynda Kelly earned allowed him to observe the chain of command at work in the the Superior Performance Award, a prestigious award field as well as learn the standard tactics used in establishing presented to the top 20 percent of field training graduates. patrol bases and executing a patrol. Congratulations to these individuals as well as all of Midshipmen Jeffre Snyder and Bryan Jones were both Detachment 880's AFROTC Field Training graduates! attached to Navy squadrons. Jones was stationed at VP-45, a Several other second class cadets were involved in training, P-3 squadron in Jacksonville, Fla. He not only flew twice a participating in Combat Survival, the Pentagon Internship week, but was also involved in ordnance drops of live 500 lb. Program and Army Airborne Training. Other cadets bombs. While attached to HM-14 at NAS Norfolk Va., Snyder participated in an Air Force "shadow" program where they worked as an assistant division officer in the Mine Counter explored career opportunities in Air Force Special Measure Department and received over 20 hours of helicopter Investigations and Air Force Special Operations. "stick" time. Several midshipmen also had opportunities for overseas AFROTC FIELD TRAINING GRADUATES travel. Midshipman Chad Bicknell traveled to Malaga, Spain Ryon Beyer Jason Grubaugh Charlynda Kelly aboard the USS DEYO while Midshipmen Ben Chang, Bill Fallon and John Pitts took part in foreign exchange cruises with James Wallace Chris Boswell Rich Hallett the Canadian, Japanese and Chilean Navies. All of these Scott Kuebler Jeremy Woodhouse Aaron Cantley midshipmen received valuable insight into shipboard life. Brent Harms Emily Mazzeo Ryan Cengeri Midshipman Cliff Flournoy was attached to the Special David Hoffman Jonathan Palmer John Ferguson Warfare Center, Coronado, Calif. for training known as Mini- Matthew Keller Joshua Petry

Page 14 The Institute Report, September 11, 1998 Baton passes from Bunting to Bunting

All of the responsibilities for the successful assimilation of women into the Corps of Cadets ultimately fell to Maj. Gen. Josiah Bunting, III, the Institute's thirteenth superintendent. Now the success of that venture calls for leadership in the class (2001) for a smooth four-year cadetship. It's quite a twist of fate that the class elected its president after last spring's breakout and chose Cadet Charles C.M. "Charlie" Bunting, son of the superintendent. One of his classmates, saying he was speaking for the vast majority of his Brother Rats, said, "we picked him because of his obvious leadership qualities. It's that simple." The younger Bunting, a corporal and an English major on a Marine Corps scholarship, had wanted to come to VMI since he first considered college. "We lived right next to Princeton, and later on the campus at Hampden-Sydney, but nothing Third Class officers (1-r): William C. Alley, class historian; Charlie Bunting, could change my goals," he said. "I wanted the challenge of class president; and Charles A. Ransom, class vice president. VMI, and when my father was selected to be superintendent, I thought that might even add to the challenge, so I never Only two other VMI superintendents-the first two-had wavered," he added. sons attending the Institute while they were in office. Maj. Gen. Bunting wears academic stars for his achievements as a Francis H. Smith, who held the title for the first 50 years, had freshman, compiling a grade-point average better than 3.5 for one son in each of the classes of 1862, 1869, and 1876. Brig. the year with a perfect 4.0 in the first semester. His high school Gen. Scott Shipp (1890-1907) had a son in the class of 1897, but preparation had been diverse, with a stint at St. Paul's, a private in this century, only Gen. Bunting has been superintendent while boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire, then a year at his son attended, and the younger Bunting is the only one in the prestigious Lawrenceville School in Princeton, where his that category to serve as class president. father was Headmaster, and a final year and a half at "Our class officers have a responsibility to make this a Rockbridge County High School here. He has continued with model class, one to be emulated," said Bunting. "The class has lacrosse, his high school sport, and even though the class a lot of potential, and it's our job to help bring it out as the first presidency will take a lot of his time, he says he will "make coeducational class in vMI history," he added. time" for lacrosse at VMI. "It's just another challenge." The historic class of 2001 chose as its vice president Cadet Bunting was selected to the national scholastic honor Charles Ransom, of Midlothian, VA. He is a graduate of society, Phi Eta Sigma, in the first chapter installed at VMI, Midlothian High School, a computer science major in Air Force which recognizes academic achievement among freshmen in ROTC. As class historian, they picked William Alley, Army their first collegiate semesters. He also "makes time" for ROTC, majoring in mechanical engineering and a graduate of activities in the Timmins-Gentry Music Society, and this past Douglas Freeman High School. summer he studied at the American Language Center in Fez, Each class's officers are automatically members of both the Morocco. His two semesters of Arabic language credit have Executive Committee and the General Committee in the corps been transferred to VMI, and he plans to continue those studies, governance structure. "We hope to be fully involved in all issues perhaps someday utilizing that knowledge as a Marine Corps which affect our class," said Bunting, "and we can expect a lot officer. of challenges." He added, "That's fine by me." Melton appointed to Board of Visitors continued from page 1 Council of the Virginia General Assembly, and since 1974, he from the Medical College ofVirginia. He performed a residency has served, in various capacities, with the Virginia Hospital with the Hanover Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, North and Healthcare Association. Carolina before joining the staff at Rockingham Memorial. In 1986, he was named Businessman of the Year by the As a cadet, he was a sports writer for the Cadet newspaper Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce and was all four years, a member of the Hop & Floor Committee, vice­ first runner-up for Young Administrator of the Year by the president of the Corps Building Committee, and played one American College of Hospital Administrators in 1981. year on both the basketball and track teams. He has remained A native of Salem, Melton graduated from VMI with a B.A. active in alumni affairs serving a four year term on the Board in history. He then served on active duty, as an officer in the of Directors of the VMI Alumni Association. United States Air Force, from 1967 to 1972. Following his Melton is married to the former Connie Maxine Graham, and discharge, he earned his Masters in hospital administration they have three children, Tracy (30), Tad (23), and John (19).

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Saturday, 12 September: Wednesday, 7 October: 1 p.m. Football@ William & Mary (Corps Trip). 8 p.m. VMI Theatre cabaret performance. See page 10. Sunday, 13 September: Thursday, 8 October: Middle East Conference. See article on page 8. 8 p.m. VMI Theatre cabaret performance. See page 10. Monday, 14 September: Friday, 9 October: Parents Weekend Middle East Conference. See article on page 8. Dominion Day. Friday, 18 September: Admissions Open House 4:30p.m. Review Parade, parade ground. 4:30 p.m. Review Parade, parade ground. 8p.m. Band/Glee Club concert. Military Attache Conference. Parents Council meeting. Saturday, 19 September: Admissions Open House 6:45p.m. Theatre dinner-theatre production. See page 10. 7 p.m. Football @ ETSU. Saturday, 10 October: Parents Weekend Undergraduate Chemistry Research Symposium. Dominion Day. Military Attache Conference. 10:30 a.m. Review Parade, parade ground. Tuesday, 22 September: 12:30 p.m. Football vs. Wofford, Alumni Memorial Field. Publications Board meeting. 6:45p.m. Theatre dinner-theatre production. See page 10. Friday, 25 September: Reunion Weekend Sunday, 11 October: 4:30p.m. Review Parade, parade ground. 2 p.m. VMI Theatre cabaret performance. See page 10. Friends of Preston Library meeting. Saturday, 26 September: Reunion Weekend 8 a.m. Alumni Board meeting. 10:30 a.m. Review Parade, parade ground. EEO Statement 1 p.m. Football vs. Furman, Alumni Memorial Field. Executive Order Number Two (98) signed by Governor James S. Tuesday, 29 September: Gilmore, and effective January 17, 1998, reads in part: ROTC Control day. ".. .it is the firm and unwavering policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia to assure equal opportunity in all facets of state government." Wednesday, 30 September: ''This policy specifically prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, 2 p.m. Academic Board meeting, Smith Hall board room. sex, color, national origin, religion, age, or political affiliation, or against Friday, 2 October: otherwise qualified persons with disabilities. Fall FTX (begins at 4 p.m.). "State appointing authorities and other management principals are Saturday, 3 October: hereby directed to take affirmative measures, as determined by the Fall FTX. Director, Department of Personnel and Training, to emphasize the 1 p.m. Football@ Georgia Southern. recruitment of qualified minorities, women, disabled persons, and older Sunday, 4 October: Virginians to serve at all levels of state government." "This directive does not permit or require the lowering of bonafide Fall FTX. job requirements, performance standards, or qualifications to give 10:30 a.m. Navy/Marine Corps Memorial Service, J.M. Hall. preference to any state employee or applicant for state employment."

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