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VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE VOLUME XXVIII, NUMBER 7 APRIL 13, 2001 In this edition... VMI, Virginia Attorney General, ACLU Exchange Words Over Evening Prayer .......... 2 News of Reveille: A Call to Excel ..................... 2 Virginia Program at Oxford ............................ 2 Daniels Humanitarian Award presented ........ 3 Tenure/Promotions .......................................... 4 Supt. visits European Exchange Partners ....... 4 Superintendent at Book Signing ..................... 4 George C. Marshall Award Seminar ................. 5 Navy Master Diver to speak at VMI .................. 5 Lewis Sorley to speak at VMI ........................... 5 Mr. Bruce Gottwald, President of the VMI Board of Visitors, and Superintendent Major General Josiah Bunting III applaud President Jimmy Carter. Carter accepted the inaugural Jonathan Daniels Humanitarian Award on Department of Economics and Business ........ 7 March 29, 2001 in Cameron Hall. For comprehensive coverage on the event see page 3 and visit the VMI web page at http://www.vmi.edu/pr/daniels-carter.html. Several VMI icons to retire In 2001 ................ 8 th Magnus Nordenman ....................................... 11 Events Scheduled to Mark the 100 Anniversary Military Store, Tailor Shop, and Mail Room . 12 of George C. Marshall’s Graduation Cadets participate in Model Arab League ..... 13 Since November, members of the VMI administration and the George C. Marshall Museum have been making plans to commemorate the 100th anniversary of General Marshall’s graduation from the Institute. Pipes/Drums in St. Patrick’s Day Parade ....... 13 Several events will take place on Friday, April 27 at the 4:30 dress parade for alumni reunion weekend. During the parade, a special guidon-streamer that reads “George C. Marshall Company” will be presented to the Alpha Company Physics students attend conferences ............. 13 commander. General Marshall was A Company commander, a position in the 1901 Corps that also meant he was the First Captain, a title we now, as a matter of tradition, bestow on our regimental commander. In the Corps of 1901, there was no Potpourri ....................................................... 15 regimental commander. Following the parade, there will be a ceremony at the Marshall statute during which VMI Superintendent Major Calendar of Events ......................................... 16 General Josiah Bunting III and Mr. Albert J. Beveridge III, President and CEO of the George C. Marshall Foundation will commemorate two plaques, both to be unveiled at the ceremony. One will already be positioned on the rear base of the Marshall statue to mark the 100th anniversary and the other will be placed outside room 202 in the Barracks which was General Marshall’s room during his first class year. Also to be announced at the parade is the establishment of the George C. Marshall Citizen-Soldier Award. The inaugural award will be presented this year at commencement to a rising first classman whose cadet career has most closely paralleled that of General Marshall’s. The criteria include a solid academic record, membership on the football team, military rank in the Corps, an exemplary discipline record and extracurricular involvement. The award, to be given on a bi-annual basis, includes a plaque and a cash prize. A permanent plaque with the names of each recipient will be placed in the Marshall Museum. Continued on page 2 The Institute Report, April 13, 2001 Page 1 VMI, Virginia Attorney General, ACLU Virginia Exchange Words Over Evening Prayer Program at Following a complaint by two VMI cadets, Rebecca Glenberg, in the Richmond Office of the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote VMI Superintendent Major General Josiah Bunting III questioning the constitutionality of the prayer prior to Oxford the evening meal in Crozet Hall. Eight VMI cadets, from two In his response of April 2nd, Gen. Bunting states, “We have conferred with the Office of the Attorney General with different classes, have been chosen to regard to your legal arguments. We are advised that the Constitutional principles developed to benefit children in public attend the 2001 Virginia Program at schools do not apply to the adults who comprise the cadet corps at a military college like the Virginia Military Institute.” Oxford. The VMI contingent will join “The Constitution does not prohibit our saying grace before supper,” said Bunting. “And we shall continue to do so.” 28 students from five other Virginia Gen. Bunting also points out in his letter that cadets are not compelled to participate in the prayer, remain at attention or colleges. bow their heads. The students will have six weeks Though no legal action has been taken, Attorney General Mark Early vows to “vigorously defend the Institute and the of study at St. Anne’s College beginning tradition of saying grace before supper,” if the ACLU takes VMI to court. June 25 and ending on August 4. “Once again the ACLU goes too far,” says Early. “The Supreme Court has never said adults assembled for an official Subject matter for the concentrated meal on a college campus may not hear a blessing offered for the meal. Moreover, as a military college, VMI is entitled to program will be the literature, history, the same deference in this regard given to the work of chaplains in military settings.” and society of late 16th and 17th century England. Participants will earn two units or six semester hours of credit. The program follows the th English system, combining lectures 100 Anniversary of George C. Marshall’s Graduation and weekly tutorials conducted by Continued from page 1 Oxford dons. Tutorial groups are “In this centennial year of General Marshall’s graduation, we are proud to honor VMI’s most illustrious alumnus and small, allowing for considerable one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century with physical memorials and a cadet award bearing his name as a legacy for individual attention and active future generations,” said Gen. Bunting. participation. The Elizabethan, “We are pleased to join VMI in this endeavor to remember General Marshall, the supreme soldier-statesman,” said Jacobean, and Caroline periods will be Mr. Beveridge. “It is certainly our goal never to let our nation forget his contributions in both war and peace.” the central theme of both lectures and Beginning in April, the following commemorative message will be run on all pieces of mail sent from VMI during the tutorials. 2001 calendar: 100th Anniversary George C. Marshall VMI ’01 Cadets attending the 2001 Virginia Program at Oxford are: second classman Timothy A. Tendall; and third classmen Jordan E. Fox, Daniel J. News of Reveille: A Call to Excel Goldberg, Philip D. Kerns, Michael N. Lokale, Daniel M. McNair, Evan J. The Campaign for VMI Szymanski, Timothy A. Tendall, and On March 30, 2001, the VMI Foundation hosted its annual dinner for the members of The Institute Society, those Karen M. Wheeler. donors who make unrestricted gifts annually to the Foundation Fund of at least $1,000. More than 520 members attended the dinner at which, every year, the generosity of The Institute Society is acknowledged—and which, this year, Reveille: A Call to Excel was highlighted. In his welcoming remarks, Mr. James E. Rogers ’67, President of the VMI Foundation, said that, in December 2000, he had challenged each member of VMI’s Board of Visitors, the VMI Alumni Association’s Board of Directors, the VMI The Institute Report Keydet Club’s Board of Governors, and the VMI Foundation’s Board of Trustees to make a gift or pledge to Reveille, in order to indicate the importance these men and women placed on this historic effort on behalf of VMI. To applause, he Editor ........................... Burton R. Floyd, III then announced that his challenge had been met. Supervising Editor ......... Col. Mike Strickler Later in the program, Mr. George G. Phillips, Jr. ’60, the chairman of Reveille, described the campaign’s goals. He Contributing writers/photographers: stated that, while Reveille will advance every aspect of VMI, its main objective is “an audacious goal,” specifically, “to Doug Chase Chris Clark elevate VMI’s academic programs in order to ensure that every cadet . receives an unquestionably superior undergraduate Lt. Col. Chuck Steenburgh education—and to do so within a decade.” One of the means by which this goal will be achieved was announced by Mr. Cadet Tony Conway ’01 Phillips—the $50 million Jackson-Hope Fund, which he explained as “an academic venture capital fund.” (Details about Printing .. The News-Gazette, Lexington, Va. this exciting program will appear in forthcoming issues of First Call, the newsletter of Reveille; the VMI Alumni Review; The Institute Report is published by the VMI and The Institute Report.) Public Relations Office. Eight issues are Finally, Mr. Phillips announced the latest figures for funds raised for Reveille. Since the beginning of Reveille’s printed during the academic year. Inquiries, suggestions, news items, or address changes “public phase” in late October 2000, Reveille has raised $16 million in new gifts and commitments, boosting the total should be directed to Editor, The Institute amount of gifts and pledges received to $125 million. Report, VMI Public Relations Office, Without a doubt, the early response to Reveille has been enormously encouraging. In fact, in the first few months of Lexington, Virginia 24450-0304. Current and past issues and articles are available on the its “public phase,” Reveille has received an average of $3.2