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Hop Committee Swing R. V. Jacobs was elected to head Plans are being rt>a<Tr itt Ua^s tlttnn 1941 Hop committee at meeting Miller give a swing concert during last night. Easter hop week-end. M-78- VOLUME XXXIII LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MARCH 26, 1940 NUMBER 23 VMI Spirit Class of '40 Will Be Fortieth Class Ticket Sale To Have Diplomas Made By Hulse For Minstrel Jacobs Made President Recorded Begins Today By Crosby Broadcast of Preview Of New Hop Committee Will be Made April 7 Decca Record Over WDBJ, Roanoke Foster Posts New Group To Go On Sale Tickets for the 1940 annual Sec- ond Class Show will go on sale to- List of Hops Takes Over During Week day, Bob Foster, business man- ager has announced. Because of Bob Crosby and his 13-piece the advance notices of this year's For 1940-41 During Finals dance orchestra have made a Decca show, the ticket sale is expected to By BILL JIcCAULEY record of the "Spirit of VMI," it be a sell-out, and the staff is pre- Bulletin The newly organized 1941 Hop was learned here last night. pared for a full house. committee met last night in the The record has already been made The Corps of Cadets, including Bill Rennolds, director of the pro- auditorium of the Nichols Engineer- and will go on sale throughout the the members of the Monogram duction, said today that recent prac- ing hall and elected Robert V. country as a regular Decca record club, are overwhelmingly in fav- tices have been more satisfactory, Jacobs, of Brooklyn, N. Y., presi- during the current week. It will be or of signing the VMI Command- and that the first rehearsal with dent of the organization for the sold at all music stores at the regu- ers to play for the Monogram both chorus and cast will be held coming year. The committee, which lar 35-cent price. hop, the Saturday evening dance tomorrow. Mrs. M. G. Ramey is is composed of the members of the This new recording of the VMI of Finals, according to today's re- working with the choral part of the present Second Class Finance com- anthem was made by Decca at the sults of The Consensus, weekly show, and will play for the per- mittee, elected Henry E. Mecredy, request of B. I. Shiverts of Morris Cadet poll to determine barracks formance. of Roanoke, Va., vice-president; Plains, N. J. Mr. Shiverts, who was opinion on matters of current im- Arrangements for the radio pro- Robert A. Foster, of Peoria, 111., here during the past week-end vis- portance. For further details, see gram are being steadily pushed for- Stan Navas, president of the Class business manager; and Joseph R. "iting his son, Bob Shiverts, first page 2. word by Bill McCauley, director of of 1941, who presided at the meet- Swetting, of Philadelphia, Pa., classman, said that a copy of the publicity. Plans now call for the ing of the Second Class Finance treasurer. record would be sent here some- Robert A. Foster, business man- preview program to be on Sunday, committee during the election of The new committee, whose first time during the latter part of this ager of the 1941 Hop committee, April 7, at 6:45 p. m. over station officers for the Hop committee of business is that of completing its week or the early part of next has announced that the following WDBJ of Roanoke, Va. This pro- next year. organization, will assume charge of week. tentative schedule of dances for the gram will last 15 minutes, and will the May First Class hop under the Mr. Shiverts said that he did not session 1940-1941 will be submitted include many features of the com- direction of the present committee. know where Decca got its arrange- to the Superintendent for his ap- ing show. This will be in accordance with pro- ment of the "Spirit," nor what proval. This schedule, which is al- A recent announcement is that cedure in the past, for the purpose piece was on the other side of the ways prepared by the chairman of Ambler Sutherland, nimble mem- of giving the committee actual ex- record. the Second Class Finance commit- ber of the third class, will do a tap perience in conducting a hop be- The Cadet's telegram to the Dec- Robert J. Hulse of New York is shown demonstrating the hand press tee in conjunction with the presi- dance as a special feature between fore it assumes official and active ca Recording Co. in Chicago, re- he inherited 60 years ago, when he learned his trade as a steel and cop- dent of the outgoing Hop commit- acts. charge of the Finals dances. The questing more detailed information per engraver. (Photo courtesy of New York Herald-Tribunte.) tee, before the organization of the The other special features have Finals dances will be conducted concerning the record had not been incoming committee, will be sub- not been announced. solely by the incoming committee answered as The Cadet went to When the Class of 1940 receives its diplomas at the graduation exer- mitted to Headquarters sometime after the incumbent committee signs press this afternoon. A copy of the cises on June 12, it will become the fortieth class to have its diplomas during the coming week. the orchestra. record itself will be here soon and engraved and printed by Robert J. Hulse, 79-year-old New York engraver. According to the tentative roster, Bomb Staff Nears Under the provisions of the new more information will be released Mr. Hulse maintains what he says is the only shop in New York where Opening dances will be held on constitution for the Hop commit- next week. "fine and meticulous" hand-plate printing of steel and copper engraving Finish of Work Friday and Saturday, Oct. 4 and 5. tee two years, Jacobs and Mecredy This record is the third consecu- plates is still being done. These dances, which will consist were elected from the members of tive recording made by a popular On 1940 Edition of a Friday night hop lasting until After 40 years he still prints the the committee at large, while Fos- dance band. The first was made by The 1940 Bomb is on the home 2 a. m., a dansant, and a Saturday Turn-Out Staff plates of diplomas for the com- ter and Swetting were advanced Jan Garber several years ago. Hal mencement exercises at VMI on the stretch now as far as its publication evening hop lasting until midnight, from their respective positions" of Kemp made a Victor recording last large hand press, more than 60 is concerned, Editor Bates Gilliam will be formal. They will be held Rushes Work chairman and treasurer of the Fi- spring. Both of those two records years old, which he inherited from said today. "Three-'fourts of our on this particular week-end, since Bob Foster, chairman of the in- nance committee. had the. Washington and Lee his grandfather, who taught him the photographic work has already VMI plays Newberry college in the cumbent Second Class Finance com- Jacobs announced that a complete "Swing" on the opposite side of the On New Issue trade. been completed, and all biographies second home game of the football mittee, who was last night elected roster of the 1941 Hop committee, "Spirit." have been turned in, and the page season. In order to allow the foot- business manager of the new Hop The spring issue of The Turn-Out Mr. Hulse commutes every week combined with the group assign- borders and opening sections are ball team to attend all dances, the committee which will assume du- will be distributed in barracks on or day from his home in Merrick, L. I., ments, will be announced next about April 1, Douglas McMillin, now in the hands of the printers." committee has striven to have all ties at Finals. to his workshop at 46 Ann street, week. AIEE Members editor of the magazine, announced All copy will go to the printers hops when the football team will and waves away with a contemp- Jacobs, who has held the post of today. The business staff, under the on or before May 1, Gilliam said. be present for a home game. tuous hadn the idea of retiring or chairman of the flower committee Attend Convention direction of Gordon Bennett, has All the work is far ahead of sche- The Homecoming hop will be held using machine work to make prints. Colonel Carroll on the finance body, had been very been busy for the past few days ad- dule and this year's issue is ex- on Nov. 2, which is the day of the Held In Roanoke Machine work, he said when in- active in that capacity. A member dressing the envelopes in which the pected to be completed earlier than Homecoming game with William terviewed at his shop on March 11 of the civil engineering course, he issues are to be sent in order that other Bombs in recent years. and Mary college. These dances Announces By STAN HARROLD by a reporter from the New York has done consistently well in his the magazine may be delivered as have always been extremely popu- Leaving here at DRC last Friday, Herald Tribune, is "just a stain on The photographs for the 1940 academic work since his fourth close to April 1 as possible. Prior to lar with cadets and alumni alike 35 cadet members of the AIEE ac- the paper." Bomb were taken by Andre of Lex- VAS Program class year, missing distinction by the Christmas issue, all the Turn- and have always drawn heavy at- companied by Major Jamison went Mr.