VOLUME XLV VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MAY 30, 1955 NUMBER 29 COLUMN ONE Manns To Captain Baccalaureate Service by '56 Baseball Nine Jere Real George Manus will succeed Dave To Be Heard On WRVl Woolwine next year as Captain of There is an item that this writer the Keydet Baseball team. Manus The Baccalaureate service as con- tend the Virginia Seminary in feels should be mentioned before was elected in an election held by ducted by The Right Reverend Wil- Alexandria, Virginia. the end of the present school year. the team last Friday night. liam H. Marmion in Jackson Hall While in Texas, Bishop Marmion The "Rats" are now out of the rat- George, who is sometimes called will be broadcast over the radio on attended the Houston public schools line and have assumed the status of "The Mole" by his team mates, is that date it was announced today and Rice Institute where he receiv- Fourth Classmen. In their new a five foot eight inch catcher from by the VMI Department of Public ed a Bachelor of Arts degree in category, they have a great deal of Brooklyn, New York and has been Relations. freedom that they have not had a member of the varsity team for 1929. three years. He has received a mon- The station which will carry the previously. It is lime for the present program is WRVA in Richmond He was ordained Deacon on July Fourth Classmen to try and view ogram each year and is one of the few Cadets at the Institute to have Virginia and the program will run 20th, 1932 after his graduation from their new position objectively. This from 11 A. M. until noon on Sun- the Virginia Seminary. He was new class must now try to deter- lettered in a varsity sport during his flat year. day June 5. made an ordained priest on April mine just what their future course 5th, 1933 by Bishop Quinn, also a The red haired Irishman has Included in the service and in at the Institute will be. It is the native of Texas. He served at St. first opportunity that these men been around the baseball circles the broadcast will be the Virginia for quite some time. When he was Military Institute's famed Glee Club James Church of Taylor, Texas and have to make plans independently, Rod McCormick and William Child inspect a musket of the Grace Church of Georgetown, and in considering their next three in high school he copped the Most headed by Colonel H. N. Dillard. Texas until 1938 at which time he years at VMI, they might make a type that they, along with other team members, will fire next Valuable Player award two years The Glee Club will sing the an- was appointed Associate Minister great difference in their life after year in the North-South shoot. Mr. Child is team Captain and running with successive batting them "The Creation" by Willy Rich- of St. Mark's Cuhrch in San An- their graduation as well as during averages of .600. This is a remark' ter. Mr. McCormick is team Adjutant. These are elective positions. tonio, Texas. the remainder of their cadetship. able average for anyone, but espec- Bishop Marmion is a native of ially so for one whose outside in- In this vein there exists extracur Texas and resided in that state un- In 1938 Bishop Marmion moved ricular activities that might be terests include his major. Civil En- Newly Formed Musket Team gineering, and cadet waitership. til the time of his departure to at- to Birmingham, Alabama where he taken up. became Rector of St. Mary's-on-the- The value of the extra-curricular Highlands and in 1950 be became activity in connection with a col- To Fire In Sectional, Shoot Rector of St. Andrews Cathedral in lege education cannot be underes BY W. 0. CHILD Washington Blue Rifles came into Odd Summer Jobs Accented Wilmington, Delaware. timated vrfth regard to its value in A new twist in rifle teams has existence and were promptly chal- broadening the individual and in- On May 13th 1954, Bishop Mar- come into being at VMI. A cadet lenged to a match by the Greys. By VMI Cadets On Furlough mion was appointed Bishop of this creasing his objectivity. As "Rats," musket team armed with the .58 That was the first skirmish. The diocese, and he has served in that most of the new Fourth Clasmen caliber rifle musket of the Civil idea caught on and snowballed un- is no exception. Kenny Dickinson Every summer for the past 115 capacity eever since. had little time to enter into a num- War and wearing the uniform of til at the 11th skirmish at Fort and Jack Piggot both have jobs ber of outside interests. Now that years cadets have been spreading the Corps of 1861 has been formed Lee, Virginia, 17 teams compete out over the nation in a search with the National Forestry Service Bishop Marmion lias been, the men of the Fourth Class are re- to participate in the 12th North- with a band, parade and other in Montana and Idaho respectively, laed from this limitation, their en- for the quick dollar and a good throughout his career, an active South skirmish in October. The ceremonies. and plan to spend most of their ergies may be directed toward any time to tide them over the follow- worker with the youth of our na- formation of the team is now in The teams wear actual Civil War time clearing brush trails. number of outside fields. Area and ing winter. tion, and it is this growing move- the first stages of development al- uniforms or authenic reproductions Another man with his eye on interest groups, The Glee Club, It has occured to THE CADET ment which he has supported as though there has been considerable thereof and use W. equipment, plenty of money and a lot of hard academics organizations, and pub- that many of these people stream- Director of Diocesan youth camps. trouble in acquiring equipment due weapons, and the Civil War Man- work is Charley Caldwell, a pros- lications, offer profitable experi- ing over the country every summer • to the fact that most of it went out ual. The accuracy of which these In addition to his work with the ence that is an essential part of any have . very singular and original 1pectiv e roustabout for the Louis- of date shortly after 1865 and I weapons are still capable is nation's youth, he has also been an collegiate system military or not. ideas "concerning the best (if not' iana oil fields. The rumor goes most of the existing siirplus stock surprising and, aside from the active member of such organiza- There was an instructor here dur- the easiest) way to make a buck,; that there's a lot of money in the has been snapped up by existing pageantry of the event, there is tions as the Birmingham Pastors ing my "Rat" year who- advised a which if presented here might joi l fields for anyone who's in- teams. I quite a lot of amazingly good shoot- Union, of which he was president, group of "Rats" in his class by all give you an idea of how to spend |tereste d in hard manual labor, so The idea of the skirmish started ing done. At the 11th skirmish a the Birmingham Sunday School mean to take up some extra-cur- (or not to spend) your vacation. | maybe this is your ticket. a few years ago when a muzzle- team of eight picked riflemen arm- Council, upon whose executive- ricular activity. He emphasized that Perhaps the most unusual idea ' Tom Dooley and Jim Dillard have loading enthusiast gathered about ed with muskets, to the delight of council he sat, and the Department to get something out of VMI and which has caught the ears of this decided they'd rather travel than him a group of similar enthusiasts the spectators and embarassment of Christian Social Relations of the to give VMI something in return it reporter is the gold quest to be I work, so they'll be heading down to form a musket team who wore of Fort Lee, actually outshot a Executive Council of the Diocese was necessary to do something be- conducted by Tom Massie, Dale |towar d Mexico at the end of sum- Confederate uniforms and called team composed of two officers from of Alabama. sides "study and march." Vaughan and Tiger Jackson. Deep mer camp. They expect to keep themselves the First Virginia I Fort Lee armed with an Ml and moving till their money runs out, As Third Classmen next year the in the hills of Colorado, .so one' Bishop Marmion was married on Greys. They succeeded in interest- a Belgian FN. (The proposed which they hope to be about Mex- Class of '58 will have to assume ing a group of Yankees and the NATO rifle) geologist says, lies a stream bed December 28, 1935 to Mabel ico City, a good 800 miles inside new responsibilities and duties that guaranteed to produce ten dollars Daugherty Nail. They have two worth of gold dust per day to |th e Mexican border. will determine their relative out- sons, William Henry Marmion, Jr., come in 1958 when they graduate. any man with the knowledge and I Well, there you have the ideas Former Commandant And Cadet Wise born May 26, 1942, and Roger Mills If the right selection is made at industry to pan it. So it will be io f a few in the Corps, and if you the present time and the men of Publishes Philosophic History Of Man in search of this stream that Mas- still think you'd prefer working Nail Marmion, born January 19, '58 decide now as to their activities sie and Co. will depart at the con- on the local survey crew, just re- 1955. They make their home at and their general plans for the Col. Jennings C. Wise of Lexing- truly the Albertus Magnus, the clusion of summer camp. The member that it takes all kinds to 2730 Avenham Avenue, S. W., in future, there will be no doubt as to ton is the author of a new histori- Doctor Universalis of the present stream is an actuality, however, make a world. Roanoke. their success as upperclassmen and cal treatise entitled "The Philo- age. His book should be read by and with the proper maps and as graduates. sophic History of Civilization." It every person with any pride left of efluipment the prospectors might is published b^ the Philosophical independent thought." just strike it rich. Brown Culminates 49 Years Jones To Lecture Library, Inc. of New York. Col Wise, V.M.I. 1902, Professor Another man who seems to be The object of the work accord- Economics, Political Science and after a break in the monotony is As Heating Superintendent ing to the author is to produce on International Law, V.M.I., 1812-15, Bob Webster, apprentice smoke Among the employ at VMI there Astonomy Class a non-political basis and without the Professor who first occupied the Post Exchange is now, was the jumper and fire fighter. Bod has is a man who, since January 7, religious bias an intellectual rev- the chair of Liberal Arts, and in- gymnasium. In those days, the BY L. H. Diuguid got a job lined up with the Nation- 1907, has proven more faithful than olution in the teaching of history. stituted the first course of that De- Corps took annual spring hikes and Mr. Arthur Roland Jones has al Forestry service in Montana in- the most faithful. For nearly 49 In presenting the work the au- partment, Commandant of Cadets camping maneuvers. Through the been appointed lecturer for the volving fire fighting by parachute. years, Harry Brown, the "superin thor states that he has expended a (1912-14), is the oldest living mem- First World War, there was the coming Sale Planetarium. He will He .plans to spend one month tendent" of the heating plant, has lifetime upon it without a profit ber of the V.M.I. Faculty. His fath- beginning of a new building boom training for the fires and the next carried on in the tradition of the lecture on the aspects of the heav- motive and that it is not based up- er was among the first casualties which, Harry says, "has kind of two months fighting them, which honest, personable, sincere and ens. The English-born Mr. Jones on mere speculation like the work in the Battle of Newmarket and changed things a bit." at $65 a week is a profitable and likeable sort of fellow. left the navy a First Officer. of Toynbee. It seeks to coordinate had three first cousins in the battle "Since I've been at VMI, I have- interesting way to spend the sum- Since first setting foot on the The Building modern scientific revelations with corps including Capt. Henry A. n't had any trouble or disturban- mer. post, his job has been the para- Mr. Jones will give his talks in the ancient scriptures "in such a Wise who commanded the Corps in ces, and I hope others can say the The other men who have ac- mount of his well-lived existence . the planetarium building, tentative- way as to set at naught the chal- the battle after the wounding of same about me. I have yet to meet quired the deep sea bug are J. T. . . . and for some 49 years each ly planned to be located on a line lenges by the Socialists and Com- Col. Shipp. Col. Wise wrote the a man here who I don't like a good Parks and Ron Beebe. Leaving succeeding line of cadets has kept with and to the rear of the library. munists of the concept .... of first Military History of the VMI bit." Such is the outlook of this from their home port of Lewis- snugly warm, mostly because of his It will be a building about thirty a divine wisdom superior to human (1914- and the Long Arm of Lee town on the Md. coast the two efforts. At first. Harry was as be- man who, for nearly half a century, feet square and twenty feet high, intelligence." (1916) in which a chapter is devot- wildered about VMI as some of has served the Cadets of the VMI containing a spherical representa- It is reviewed in "Grass Roots" ed to the Institute as a school of will fish up and down the At-1 the "Old Corps" Rats of that time, —sincerely, satisfactorily, and most tion of the heavens, and seating which quotes George Andrews Mor- arms. His father was the only grad- lantic Coast aboard commercial j but he quickly caught on and has of all—happily. about sixty people. Completion is iarty of Ogonquit, Maine, as fol- uate who ever sent five sons to the trawlers, their principal catch be-, set a pace which, during all these expected to be sometime this fall. lows: "The Philosophic History of Institute. About 40 members of the ing meinhader. Providing the years, has hardly wavered. The planetarium equipment has Civilization by Jennings C. Wise family have attended it. storms don't get too rough and who by the internationally known the fish continue to bite they'll Now almost 71 years old, Harry been donated by E. Ashton Sale, The Editor of Liberty & Progress, and celebrated American historian have a rather uniue experience. is still going strong. One thing | Jr. in memory of his father. Mr. San Francisco, writes of Col. Wise's Francis Trevelyan Miller like Bar- though, he says. "It seems kind of Sale is a member of the Board latest book "It opens up a vast, There are always a few woods- on de Grazia of Vienna has rated funny to see the boys who come to; of Visitors and is with the Sale new and entirely different outlook man in the crowd, and this year Wise as the greatest living histor- VMI, graduate, get married and, Knitting Company, Martinsville. upon history. The countless facets ian, is most timely, refuting as it have a few boys, and then send His father was treasurer of VMI. of the gem entitled the author to be NOTICE does the grossly materialistic his- these boys back up here. It almost Mr. Jones was born in England rated as a great historian who has tory current in the schools, col- Due to the fact that the publica- makes me feel a little old, some- done more than his part in the en- in 1909. He attended Liverpool leges and universities of the pres- tion date for this issue of THE times. lightment of the world. I can only Nautical College and received his ent day. I am amazed by the scope CADET falls during the middle of Names like the late Blandy hope others will grab on to the teaching diploma at Alsager Train- of the author's researches. Wise is an examination period, the usual Clarkson, coach of the famous 1920 ing College, Crewe, England. He clues he has given to the history of eight pages has been reduced to ' Flying Squadron," Jimmy Leach has also attended the University of gation, senior navigator, and troop the past." four. This Is the last issue before who was the star of that era, hun- Richmond and has taught math officer on the Mauretania, Isle de Dr. Cary T. Jabob, Ph.D., Histor- Finals Issue when the 1955-56 staff dreds of cadets, and the various and science in Virginia's public France, and Queen Elizabeth. He ian and Playwright, Charlottes- will officially take over. This Issue, superintendents who have come schools. He was an instructor at left the navy an First Officer. Va. rates the work as one of the too, will consist of only four pages. and gone—are all still prominent, Kent in England. Other activities of Mr. Jones in- very highest scholarship, like many Be sure to pick up your free copy in the mind of this man. Harry still The new instructor was in the clude membership in the Rich- other reviewers. after the graduating exercises eith- remembers the time when barracks British Merchant Navy from 1926 mond Astronomical Society and It is especially gratifying to the er from • member of the circula- ended where Jackson Arch is now.' to 1945. He served as Executive the British Astronomical Society. Corps to know a graduate has at- tion staff outside of barracks or in When the Chapel was on the site Naval Officer during this time and He is also a fellow of the British tained such eminence in the field your barracks room where one copy of the present Cammandant's of- handled positions of Chief Of Navi- Interplanetary Society. of letters. will be placed. fice; underneath the Chapel, where BAEBY BEOWN PAGE TWO VMI, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA MAY 30, 1955 secrets of life and truth by himself. modem world, is rather, the solu- THE V. M. I. CADET He can find them only by acknow- tion of its problems." ledging God. Interesting quotation: Published Monday afternoons. Entered as second class matter, "Across the Atlantic, a young "Was Jesus the Christ before he R.C. NOTES showed himself to the world? Eith- September 18. 1946 at the postofHce at Lexington, Virginia, under the American evangelist, Billy Graham, act of March 3, 1879. Sub.scription during regular school year, $3.00. in two crusades, one in England er all Christianity is a lie, or "the Word became Flesh" is the Truth. Member VIPA and the more recent in all-Scotland This means that Jesus was always crusade, jolted skeptics and belie- EDWIN N. OSBORNE. JR. Editor-in-Chief W. I. WHITEHELD Christ, or rather that the Christ RICHARD C. MARTIN Managing Editor vers alike into the recognition of was always in Jesus. As a veil to the nedtt for a strong faith. 'They'- the face, as the shell to the kernel, M M. BELENKY T Feature Editor ve tried the scientists, the politi- so is Jesus to Christ." J. R. HANNAY Associate Editor cian, the philosopher. They want L. H. BOWEN News Editor Well, with this article I hope to [ like to repifint portions of recent something on which they can stand' —Merejkowski. L. H. DIUGUID Music Editor bow out gracefully. The new. syndicated column appearing in Graham said. This is Dr. Pollard's A. N. 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With the Ught- ' and Marine Corps have been con- formed to determine the superior use of the light barreled rifle. This progress as the United States and rounds per minute. er ammunition the soldier of to-' sidering the possibility of redesign- cartridge. Although there were no other NATO powers are still con- The weapon has a maximum version compares with the BAR but morrow will be able to both shoot • ing some of our small-arms weap- definite conclusions at the time, re- ducting tests hoping to come up range of 3,500 yards and a- maxi- differs in weight from the heavier ons so that ammunition could be commendations were made. with a suitable rifle. Information mum effective range of 600 yards. BAR by 7 lbs. and move faster. more standardized. Immediately The importance oi the issue was about these tests is classified, but The muzzle velocity is approximate- after WW 11, Ordance agreed that amplified when it was discussed the field is presently limited to the ly 2,805 f. p. s. the need for a new cartridge that by Prime Minister Churchill and Belgian Fabrique Nationale (FN) The American T-44 rifle is a could be fired from both rifle and President Eisenhower during the and the American T-44 rifles. modified version of the Ml. It Woody Chevrolet Sales machine guns had arisen. Their British Prime-Minister's visit to There are two types of FN rifles: measures 41 inches overall, is gas- objective was to design a smaller this country. Finally as a result of the light-barrel type and the heavy- operated and clip-fed. Its weight cartridge which would retain the AUTHORIZED OLDSMOBILE this discussion at a military meet- barrel type. The light barrel ver- without magazine is 8.33 lbs. 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