All 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
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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.