/• \ SOUTHERN SEMINARY: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow history lesson: "Someone with a lot of Methodist Church — although the church money planned to make more by building had no offical connection with it. a big hotel in Buena Vista during a land However, Bowling Green's school was in development boom...It didn't work direct competition with Blackstone out...that's how we got his monster College (founded, 1885) which was run by (Main)," explained Ms. Lowry. "Sem the Methodist church. Bowling Green was started in 1868 as a place called Bowling in debt $5,000.00 in mortgage in later Green Female Seminary," she said. years, and by 1899 the Reverand Edgar Moving into her crowded office, she Rowe turned the school over to the continued: "the only real history of Virginia Methodist Conference. the place was written in 1937 by Fredrick Eventually the Conference discussed William Kleig, who made his master's moving the school; the Methodist Church thesis at U. Va. a history of Sem. He's now in Charlottesville had an offer of an old on our board of trustees." Ms. Lowry had hotel at Fry Spring. But Buena Vista was a handed over a gold mine of information. mmmmmm mmmw "mmmmm boom town that hadn't panned out — and it but only until five p.m. - it was the only ,, _ , ^ . n-alnwin had a spired Victorian White Elephant on one of its kind, and she wasn't letting it go ^ ^an^e ner lace a giowin ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ anywhere. A short course in Southern Sem original building at Southern Seminary. In history follows: 1901, school was being held on the hill, and In 1868, in a South that was near in 1934 the State Board of Education destitute in Reconstruction, Mrs. W. T. granted its accreditation. Chandler turned to her own resources in an Time is often suspended when looking at effort to help out the family. Women things like the Maid of the Mountains, weren't allowed to do much then — at least Sem's yearbook, from 1904: "Red Letter for money. But she could teach — and she Days in Our Social Calendar did just that, beginning at home in a house by Tim Mishkofski, Jerry Harris I think it is real rude of the old girls to formerly called the Star Hotel, in Bowling call us "Rats." This is not VMI. Well, pictures by Jack Daniel Green, Va. She called it the Home School anyway, they enjoyed being with the for Girls. The house was still standing Rats tonight. It was a peanut party. The Incongruously staring down at the small when Kleigh wrote his thesis in '37. invitations had peanuts on them. We factory town of Buena Vista is the onion And in the Richmond Christian Ad- had peanuts all over the place...Sue domed, yesterday a hotel, Victorian vocate, August 19, 1869: Smithwick got a prize for carrying the remnant, tomorrow who knows; "Home School for Girls most peanuts on a knife across the Southern Seminary Junior College. It is a Bowling Green, Virginia like misty mornin' sunshine room..." place of odd beauty and myth, leaves Mrs. W. T. Chandler, Principal Or, from the Last Will and Testament of turning yellow, horses at a canter, and Miss M. L. Scott the Seniors : 1915: automobiles oddly unfamiliar. Fall, 1976, Miss Emma Scott — assistants "To Miss Ketcham we hereby seemed about the right time to send The next session of this school will begin bequeath her passports and cabin someone to write a story on a place happily 1st October, and close on the 30th June, passage on the Lusitania, sailing June out of step with time. 1870. Young ladies admitted at any time 1st for France and Germany..." We arrived a little after four p.m. and during session. Outside, Jerry Harris was in the little crisp in the air remind^ us that for terms and particulars address, the midst of an informal in- the days getting shorter. Jerry W. T. Chandler terview: Harris and I left Jack Daniel on the lawn Bowling Green, Va." Harris: Ok...you've gotta tell getting pictures and hurried into the Main me your names, go ahead, Hall to see Dr. Joyce O. Davis, the dean of By 1884, with tuition fees at $140 talk... students, to find out where to start. In to $190 per session, the school had 95 Liz: Liz Harmison, Penny about seven minutes we had started, pupils. Forty of them were boarding and that Buena Vista Ritter, Carol Hawkins...(tongue beginning with Ms. Lynn Lowry, the students. Since 1876 the school had been woman she don't even in cheek) this is fun... Public Information Officer. —It became a endorsed bv the Virginia Conference of the knowT. '"mJy name... (continueVwUllUIlUCdU ou n page 3) VOLUME LXVII Virginia Military institute, Lexington, Virginia September 24, 1976 NUMBER 5 Bicentennial Caravan Coming-^ The historical exhibits of the U. S. Armed forces Bicentennial Caravan will be set up on the parade ground on Saturday and Sunday, October 2 and 3. The caravan is composed of exhibit vans from each of the four services, each highlighting the 'The Navy binnacle, an actual ship's magnetic compass, is a theme, "History of the Armed popular display in the Caravan. The Navy Exhibit Van also con- Forces and Their Contributions tains a working ship's radar as well as displays showing navy to the Nation". Part of contributions to the building of America." The first rat sentinel of the new cadet class, Mike Barnes, a Civil Lexington's celebration of the "This Air Force multi-image slide show won the Gold Medal as Engineer out of Southampton. New York (center), took his post bicentennial year, the exhibits Best Multi-Media Documentary at the International Film and TV amid the usual barracks hoopla Wednesday. A member of Charlie will be open to the public from Festival of New York in November 1975. Describing the develop- Company. Barnes lost his crossdykes. but was awarded a new pair 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday ment of aviation and the history of th? Air Force, the show utilizes after autographing his old ones that evening. The changing of the and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday., 15 projectors, five screens of a stereo sound-system. Over 700 slides guar^ojApiIace^vit^^ Admission is ^ree. are shown during the 17-minute show." 2nsVN^s Page 2, The VMI Cadet, September 24, 1976 Opinion Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. —Henry David Thoreau They Might Be Giants... What the hell can be written about this week? It seems as if this place is all washed out of decent copy material. We lost the football game, we lost the hop, (you figure that if 600 guys went to the thing, each spending $50.00 for the weekend, that comes to about $30,000 over three days—what did they get from it besides a hangover and a zero on Monday's physics quiz?) and we're already planning to go rampaging through Richmond tomorrow. No, this surely is not a healthful or pleasant abode. We're turnips and they're getting blood from us. Probably the most painful moment in the beautiful early-fall- day, field goal a minute loss to Appalachian St. was the end of the game. People started to get out of the Alumni Memorial field about (Some people in the crowd do come ready to cheer.) the time tte Mountaineers scored for the last time and VMI took possession with 5:05 remaining. Lambert threw some good passes, when he made the mistake of throwing an interception, every coach on the field cussed him out. It seems that the negative incentive God: Jimmy's Co-Pilot from barracks carrys over to the playing field too. Anyway the Appalachian football team were acting like they'd just won the But in the elation of major part of rural Southern conference (and they may well do just that) and the people were election night in Philadelphia society. making a frantic rush to the side exits as the regimental band it leaked out that the Carter Carter reads the Bible moaned out the Doxology. Everyone on the red squad had left the camp's TV department was every night and while he was bench and was hurrying toward the locker room; they stopped and even farther ahead of the Governor Vvould often go into a looked back at the band. Two people hadn't the time to get with the political game than anybody main body and were stranded, alone, in front of the VMI bench. The private room of his office to had guessed. pray for guidance in facing most noticeable one was Joe Arnold. The Doxology poured forth It was putting together at like a dirge, as it much too often has in Lexington, Joe cast a look difficult problems. that moment a grand finale— Carter, however, doesn't see at the team, then turned back at the faithful. He started to runn a TV special to be flashed on off, then he stopped, looking at the grass, the sound of rats and old believe he has been "ordained a giant screen behind the to be President." men singing that song. Fellini could not have cast a better scene, speaker's rostrum the night Mike Myers was struggling to get his camera up to make it all last, that Governor Carter accepts Delicious Buffet Daily but there was no film, only the dying chords of that..."God bless our the nomination.