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The Marilyn Monroe Issue VOLUME XLIV VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MARCH 22, 1954 NUMBER 21 ^Tadef' Scoops Marilyn Monroe Dedication From^TheTurnouf^ ReligiousEmphasisWeek 'So Proudly W^ Dedicate" New Cadet Day Slated Opens Today With Talk For 150 Prospectives^ By Captain Zimmerman Full Schedule Planned VMI's thirty-first Religious Emphasis Week began at noon For the first time in the history of VMI an organized pro- today with the Corps assembly in Jackson - Memorial Hall. gram will be presented to prospective new cadets for next Captain John David Zimmerman, Chaplain at the United States year on March 26th and 27th. The program will be initiated Naval Academy. by a cadet cadre on Friday and Saturday of this week. Captain Zimmerman's talk today For the first time in the history of VMI an organized program will was entitled "No Neutrals in Re- Glee Club Appears 8 AFROTC Cadets be presented to prospective new ligion Today." Discussions are cadets for next year on March the scheduled Monday, Tuesday, and On TV Broadcast 26th and 27th. Wednesday evenings from 7:15 to Fly To Texas Sponsored by the various Alumni 8:00, with the subjects "Too Many Sunday Evening chapters, groups of high school seniors from most parts of Virginia Gods," "Optional and Small Gods," With Rifle Team Sixteen selected singers from and several out-of-state sections and "Roadblocks to Faith." Eight Air Force ROTC students the VMI Glee Club will sing a —four first and four second class- will visit the Institute beginning Wednesday afternoon there will large variety of numbers on a men—will accompany the VMI Air on Friday morning, the 26th. There are approximately 150 boys ex- be a discussion from 4:00 to 5:00 television program to be /broad- Force Rifle Team in its four day, cast- over Station WLVA-TV in pected to attend the two day fes- which will pose the question: "To airborne trip to Texas and New Lynchburg on Sunday, March 28 at Orleans this week, it has been an- tivities. take your place in the world you 7:15 p.m. The presentation will nounced by Major Marion S. Street, Most of the boys will be coming need basic foundations. How sound precede and be similar to an ap- Tactical S-3. The total group, com- from the Tidewater area with 45 are yours?" pearance of the entire glee club prising fifteen cadets and an Air representatives from Norfolk and in Lynchburg at the E. C. Glass Portsmouth. Forty are expected Served With Halsey Force officer from VMI will de- High school on the evening of part from Woodrum Field in Roa- from Richmond while Roanoke will Captain Zimmerman has attend- Saturday, April 3. noke at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday and send 30. Smaller groups will come ed Heidelburg College in Tiffin, 0., The program is being made pos- will return Sunday night. from the Peninsula area and parts of West Virginia. Nearby the U.S. Naval Academy, Kenyon sible through the fine cooperation First destination for the Lang- Maryland, who had originally in- College and Bexley Hall Theologi- of Mr. Robert N. Winfree of the ley Field C47 in which they will tended to send some boys down, cal Seminary, and Johns Hopkins Lynchburg Steam Bakery. fly will be Bryan Air Force Base, University. He has served in This 2)st issue of the '54 CADET we proudly dedicate to the will not be represented. Robert Hanson of the first class Texas from which they will de- churches in Akron, Ohio, and Balti- beauty, generosity, and friendliness of America's top box office at- An Average Weekend is in charge of arrangements for part on Friday night or Saturday more, Md., and has served as rector traction, Miss Marilyn Monroe. The particular weekend was the appearance on the air, while morning for the Naval Air Base of Holy Trinity Church in Cincin- at New Orleans. All cadets will picked because it typifies an aver- nati, Ohio. He was commissioned the VMI Lynchburg Club, headed age VMI weekend. There will be by Ted Benson of the class of '54 have an opportunity to fly the as a chaplain in the Naval Reserve Victory Is Sweet plane from the co-pilot's seat dur- no special excitement caused by an in 1933, and since July 1941 has is sponsoring the program at the athletic event or a hop weekend; high school. ing the trip. This will be one of served on active duty. Aboard the the most unique aspects of the the purpose being to give the boys Among the numbers which may USS Miami in Admiral Halsey's F. McCarthy and F. Slieild Aid trip since most cadets have pre- a view of VMI as it really is. A be presented at the two concerts fast carrier task force in the viously never had a comperable special attempt is being made to are: "Tobacco is a Dirty Weed," Pacific, he saw action in attacks op In Quest For Miss Monroe ooportunity to fly a plane. have as many extra-curricular ac- Saipan, Guam, the Marianas, Palau, "Casey Jones," "I Love a Parade," tivities in operation as possible on Cadets chosen to make the jour- Leyte Gulf, and the China Sea. Schubert's "The Omnipotence," By E. N. OSBORNE is to be credited with an assist in Friday in order to let the boys see ney—other than the members of Heath's "I am the Grass," and the acquisition. Cadet Sheild ob- what the opportunities are of fol- Members of the Corps, particu- the rifle team—were first class- Since the war he has attended Borthiansky's "The Cherubic tained the pictures through a rela- lowing up any special interests they larly those whose literary talents men: Diuguid, Mattox, Hengel and the Armed Forces Sfaff College, Song." tive, Wythe Holt, Class of '33. It might have if they decide to come are directed toward the publication Stoy and second classmen: and has been on the Staff of the (Continued on page 8) was through Holt that he was en- to VMI. of the Turnout, will doubtless be Almy, Dean, Marshall and Martin. Commander in Chief of the Naval pleased with the dedication of this abled to meet another brother rat A cadet cadre will be appointed Forces in the Eastern and Atlantic Foreign Legion Vet week's Cadet to Miss Marilyn Mon- of '33, Frank McCarthy, Public Re- to act as guides to give special as- and Mediterranean, in London. roe. lations Director for Twentieth Cen- Psychology Class To sistance. This cadre will be com- Later he was Officer in Charge of Will Speak To IRC Miss Monroe, or Mrs. DiMaggio tury Fox Studios, who was able to posed mainly of first classmen who the Chaplains School, Newport, R. Visit Staunton Hospital Brigadier General Marcel if you prefer, has furnished the obtain the autographed photos live in the areas from which the I., and since July 1953 has been Penette, Military Attache for the Cadet with four autographed snap- when Miss Monroe returned from The Psychology Department has boys are coming. ' serving as Chaplain of the Naval French Embassy in Washington, shots to be used for the advance- her honeymoon. been extended an invitation by the Arrive Friday Academy at Annapolis. will speak to the VMI International ment of journalistic thought. Be- McCarthy, it should be noted, is Directors of Western State Hos- The first group will arrive at the pital in Staunton, Virginia, to parti- An Opportunity Relations Club in the near future. ing virtually the only VMI pub- also assisting the Hop Committee Institute in time to begin registra- cipate in that institution's Clini- tion in the library at 9:00 Friday Topic for the talk will be "The lication devoted to such pursuits, in lining up a panel of movie stars Religious Emphasis Week is be- cal Instruction Program which is morning. At this time they will be French Foreign Legion." General the Cadet has, in sincere apprecia- to judge this year's "Miss Easter's" ing conducted by the Cadet Re- being held during the current given a briefing and will be given Penette served with the Legion tion, dedicated this week's issue to contest. ligious Council. This is a good school year. a chance to meet the cadet guides. for several years. the vivacious Marilyn. The results of the efforts of chance for all cadets to talk with McCarthy Aids Quest Sheild, Holt, and McCarthy may be The program is aimed at pro- In the morning they will visit most Though an exact date for the the chaplain of a military college, Cadet Francis Sheild (room num- found on pages 1, 2, and 3 of this viding an opportunity for students of the academic buildings in groups talk has not been set as yet, it and everyone, regardless of denom- ber withheld for security reasons) through the state who are in- of five where several interviews ination, should take advantage of is expected that a review in honor terested in the study of psycho- will be conducted. Just before this opportunity. of the officer will be given by the logy to get a first hand demonstra- dinner they will visit the ROTC Corps. Here She Is Again tion of the facilities of the hos- buildings where they will be given pital as well as a chance to see demonstrations and some basic in- Simpson Provides Workshop (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 8) For Cadet Art Enthusiasts John Miller, Virginia Alumnus, An item in a recent CADET figures.