Volume LII Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, March 22, 1963 Number 22 Marshall Foundation Robert C. Mathews Awarded Receives Large Grant Annoufuccmenit in New York to- The liatie Jiohn D. RaokeMl'er, Jr., National Science Fellowship day by the Ford Foimdaltion of a gave $150,0000 In 1956 Ito insbi- $200,000 gramit to tihe G«crge C. tiuite the researoh program, and Ms MatishaM Reisearoh Fo^lTlJdalt'ion was widow ilsiter oomtribuited an addi- Physics Major To greelted with "estireme igratiifioa- tiionial $50,000. Since libs fioiuniddnig tion" iby General of (the Army the Foundation ihas received gifts Studv At U.Va. Omar N. Braidll'eiy, MairsthaiU Foun- or pledges totalling alose -to daitiicTi Presidenit. Genieral BradTJey 000,000, of which appnoximaitely a Robert Chrisman Mathews, a saLd, "This mtot gemjeroais gilfit is quarter of a milHiion dollars has first class phv'sics major from of apecilal sianiifiicance to the Mar- beten expended in lammassimg the Shaill Foundaitiion ibecause it was mufttibudiinous collection lof hiis- Charleston, West Virginia, receiv- ittaidie iaft«r lOaireful •studjy by Fotrd tcrtcaU mHalterial miow <3an&idiered ed word last Sunday he has been Fouttdialtron lofficials and coiiiiiti- unique idf its kind. The Foumdiat'ion awarded a Cooperative Graduate itiUtes lan einidoirseimeiDt by one of currenitly has aipproximate'liy $450,- fellowship for one year's study at the Naitiion's igreatest philanthropic 000 avaiiLable fcr construdtion of the University of Virginia's Grad- trusts of Jihe vialue of bhe Mairsihaill the ihailf-'million dollar Research uate Department of Physics. The Researoh pricigraim's aiims' methods Library, which will ibe located naar award js sponsored by the Nation- and laoccimpM&hmerJts. This grant is the Viirgiiniia iMiliitary Instiibulte from al Science Foundation, a govern- not lonily of imimense valine in iit- wihiich Genclral MarSbaill graduated ment organization whose purpose eelf bult lit ciffielis proof ito other (Continued on Page 7) in making the grants is to increase imidivMuials and foimdatiions of the educational opportunities for gift- uxwr'thineiss of itlhe effort to effec- ed science graduates throughout tively inDomora'liizez tlhe life and Weather Bureau the countrj-. career of a great mam." Application for the fellowship The iFord Foundation's a^\"ard Grants Contract is made through the institmion domes laflter imoniths of study by Ford Foun'daitioin ctfificiiaJs of lihe which the graduate wishes to at- JVIairshaill Foundlaltionis progiram. To Physics Dept. tend. Only one application may be Terms of the gnant stipulate ithat su!bmitted. In most undergraduate The phj-sics department of the it lis ito ibe used for la program of schools, one of the members o£ Virginia Militarj- Institute ha? continiuing ireseairoh itnlto the na- the faculty is authorized to coun- tion's military and diplomatic his- been awarded a contract by the ROBERT C. MATHEWS sel interested students. dopy, for lOither expenses incident U. S. Weather Bureau of the De- Awards are given on the basis *o i^esearch, amd for reseiarch f^il- partment of Commerce, Maj. Gen. of the applicant's undergraduate ^hwsihips ibo ibe awarded when the George R." E. Shell VMI superin- work, the recommendations of his I IVOarsHteiM Foimdiaitiian's projected tendent, announced Wednesday. IRC Delegatiop To professot^, and the results of tbe I Resesarch Library in Lexinigtion, Vir- The contract will support an en- Graduate Record Elxaminatioii (tha [ ginrfa, lis oampactied. The Library,_ gineering analysis on the mechani- graduate school equivalent to Col- oottidtirucit'ion wfhidh .is expected to' cal design of a satellite spectro- Attend National Meeting lie Boards). start ithis monlth, wMll ibe completed meter which will be used in con- Mr. Matthews applied through midttiaiy of 1964. The Library will Wlhlle mlo'st of the Corps wil be The itiheme of this year's Con- nection with one of the current U. Va. last fall. He was singularly house miamy tihousands of papers relaxing and enjoying tihemseh-es fererjce lis The Atlantii'c Commomi- orbiting satellites of the Weather well qualified. ha\ing posted the amd othier Msitorioal material the (in tlhe sUmniy South dluring the tjj- amd a miosit distingulished list Bui-eau. highest score in the VMI physics Marslhall Foundlaition tos oodlected Spring Furlougli, tihree members of (Oif speakers has been made up. Lt. God. D. Rae Carpenter, Jr., department on the Graduate Re- sinoe its foiHidiinig in 1953. It i® ex- •the VMI Inteimaltiomal Redsitiorjs These speakers are well known associate professor of physics at cord E;.xamination this year. In pected (to serve las am invaluable Ciub will ibe attt'einding to. matters and qualified to talk on ithe vari- VMI, will be in charge of the pro- addition to this, he could cite a repository of histoirioall scairce ma- of world affairs. Charles Pecbham, oaiis .aspects of "The AtlarJtic Com- ject. He will be assisted in the teml for students in tIhe field in President of the IRC wil lead a imuniitj'" Mr. Ernst rYederic-^Kahl, three-year record as a Ehstinguish- program by Col. J. B. Newman, ooaninig years. The 'buikliinig wild delegation consistiimg of himself, a Director of the European ed Student. professor of physics, and Maj. Wil- also h'ousie a Miusoum lin wihich wll Dani Ogle amd Lyman Goff to lihe Ecoaiioniic Community; IMy Tyige As a cadet, he was preceeded by liam L. Patrick, assistant profes- be exhibited ma^ itctms ooraiedied 16th laimual cohfctretncie of the Daih'igaard, BoonjomJic Counselor of lU3 fatrher, an iimcle and a girealt- ^ with the life and. career of the sor of civil engineering. Aasociialtioin of Intemation Rela- .the Danish Embasiso" Mir. Stanley' graiidfather. During his rat year, " late Generai of the Army George The spkrtrometer is an instru- ticins Ombs at Amorjoain Interr^a- M. Cleveland, Ddrector of the Of- he earned the Chicago Tribune Oaitlleitt MairshalU, who \\ias Ohief ment to measure infrared radia- tional CoMege to SprtogfieM Masea- fice of AtlantJlc iPoiliitical - Eoono- R.O.T.C. Award. His second year of Staff during Wlonld War n and tion and will be contained in a {ihusJeitts. The delegation wall leaive srJic Affalirs; Mr. Clarence Streit, here, he held the rank of corporal lalter Secretory of SDalie. Nimbus-tj-pe orbiting satellite. The firom itheir respectdve hoones early Pre€<ident of Federal Unioin, ITIC.; and received the Chemical Rubber General Bmadlcy said the Ford satellite is a doughnut shaped ob- Wedinesday morning, March 2eth and CcDgressffnam Ogden Reid of Company Physics Achievement Foomdation igirant is tIhe largest in ject and measures approximately .in order to gelt to Springfield in New York, former publisher of the Award. Now a first classman in the (Marshall Foundiatl;>n's ihisitory. three feet by si\ feet. time to regisiter tliat afteraoon. (Continued on Page 7) (Continued On Page 2) CVRUS VANCE, (front row center) Secretary of the and found it to be a highly enjoyable and profitable one, Rules Conunittee. The Club's President. Cadet J. Clifford Army and the speaker for VMI's graduatkm exerciiies lir addition to Secretary Vance, the VMI group called upon Miller, is shown standing between Secretary Vaikce and oa June 9, was one of the officials and statesmen visited several Virginia legislators, including Senator A. Willis Colonel Alexander H. Morrison, the Faculty Advisor to by the VMI PoUtical Science Society on its trip to Wash- Robertson ,of Lexington, Republican Congressman Rich- The Political Science Society. ioglou last week. Some twenty-one cadets made the trip, ard A. I'off, and "Judge" Smith, Cliairman of the House (x>l. Gilliam Pianist Brockman Is To Participate 111 World Tour Praised By Reviewer J. Bunting III Lt. Col. Bates McCiuer Gilliam, and in the Ondine from Gaspard de la Nait, hie pla&'ed with a fine Assistant Professor of Historj" at Thomas Brookman. pianist, was delicacy and suipptte, fkien't shad- VMI, will be among approximate- guest gdloiat 'in tlhe third of this ings. ly one hundred members of the yeiar's Ro>ckbrldge-Cicincea-t Theater The brea'cV'h oif tihe program was American Political Science Asso- Series. Brockman played in grealt, raraiirig from the Vlariaitiona ciation participating in the First Jacksion Memorial Hall before a large land most eintbusiastic audi- on a M'nuet Cif Duport, K 574 by Vorld Tour*Seminar which will eraco. Mozart, to Ravel. Brockman'^s best begin this summer. The soloiis't. who had played perfcifmainrce cf tlhe eveiniing, it Col. Gilliam explains that he is here in 1957 wiitlh Howard Mit- seemed to this reviewesr, came im making the tour in order to gather oheTi amd itihe Naitiioinall Siymphiony tlhe D TVIinior Sonota of Bee ihoven, material for a proposed course in Or<chegtra, pefrformed works of tlhe "Tempest," and pariictflarly comparative government. The MozaPt, Bec-(t)hwen, Cihoptin, Raoh- in 'Ihe AW'egreitto section — the course would be a first class elec- manimioifif. Ravel, aawi Liszt. A de- conduding movement. The tempo tive for History majors and would liglhtied audience wsas afterwards w&s a bit faster tlhan as usually be offered the second semester of tireatied Do eiKJoros lincluddinig two heani jiv' this oomipositLon,, but itIhe next year. Englisth Coainitiry ®onigs of the late .pianists' readiiinig was consisitenit The group will tour thirteen IQth Certtui^', and a Polka by tairoughouit. countries: Japan, Formosa. Hong- Czeoh coimpoecr Sitietena. A iieviewer last week in Sta>un- Kong, Thailand. India. Egypt. Jor- Brockman is a very fime pian- ton, Aivlhio ihaid heaird Mr. iBriacfcman dan, Israel. Turkey, Yugoslovia, ist indeed, a^nd not an asitiist given play an almost identical program, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. to bravio amd virtuoso. He played changed ithat tihe piamr^'s playing While overseas, they will con- with clarity and consumate wais "emcitiorjaDIy sterile." Lack of duct interview's and will in turn LT.