Give To The Participate In Red Cross Sk^llljlCatict Intramurals VOLUME XXXIX THE V.M.I. CADET, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MARCH 28. 1949 NUMBER 23 Herb Patchin Day Is Celebrated By All With Great Success The VMI Glee Club Summer Camp Inter-School Gen. Shepercl Presents Begins June 18 Committees To Do It All' Watch to Herb Some Deferred Meet Monthly P-Day Marks The Saturday following graduation On Monday night, March 20, the will find many cadets reporting Executive Committee of Washing- to their respective summer camps ton and Lee University and the Twenty Years to follow the six weeks ROTC train- General Committee of the Virginia ing program. These camps will be- Military Institute met to formulate Of Service gin on 18 June 1940 and terminate plans for a monthly discussion be- on 30 July 1943. The Infantry cadets tween the representative groups. BY BRAXTON GREEN will report to Fort George G. The meeting was held in the Shortly after noon on Saturday Meade, Maryland, where 1150 stu- Virginia Cafe, and after intro- last, the corps of cadets, togethi?r dents will follow the infantry sum- ductions and dinner, short speeches with the faculty, hundreds of mer training. Also at Fort Meade were made by the president of the alumni, and many friends, gathered will be the Armored-Cavalry Sum- student body of Washington and in Jackson Memorial Hall to do mer Camp having a total .comple- Lee, Charley Rowe, and Jack honor to one of the most well- ment of 353 students. The Field Ar- Hutchinson of VMI. known and best-loved personali- tillery Summer Camp will again The purpose of the meeting was ties at the Virginia Military In- take place at Fort Bragg, N. C. to allow the representative of the stitute—Herb Patchin, Deferments To Be Granted two schools to become acquainted In appreciation to Herb for his with one another and with the re- The date. 15 April 1949. has been twenty years of faithful service, Pictured above are the approximately sixty active members of the famed VMI Glee Club who will appear spective systems of their schools. set as the last day that requests for the Sportsmen Club, an Alumni in concert Saturday evening April 2, 1949, at 8:30 in the Smith Memorial Hall, Randolph Macon VVomans In the future it has been planned deferment of summer camps will group which was organized only a College, Lynchburg, Virginia. In the center of the first row is Lt. Col. Herbert Nash Dillard, faculty member to hold a monthly meeting, which be accepted, according to a recent year ago, presented him with a will consist of a dinner and after- and director of the organization. memorandum received from Sec- watch. The Hon. John C. Hagan, wards a discussion period. In this ond Army Headquarters. These de- Jr. '21. chairman of the Sportsmen way it is hoped by both groups ferments will be granted if a stu- Club, opened the program by ex- that a great degree of understand- dent has a physical disability that HERB PATCHIN ing and respect will arise between plaining tho purpose of the club: RMWC To Entertain Corps At Series Of Informal Parties While must be corrected during the sum- —Courlrwy Ronnnkc Time the two colleges. "Through the activities of the club mer vacation. If a student should in the support of VMI's inter- Furthermore, this joint body will need the summer to make up scholastic and intra-mural teams, YMI Does Its Part By Presenting A Concert To Be Op en To All serve as a mediation board in the tain academic deficiences a defer- the alumni and the corps of cadets case of any misunderstandings be- IRCs Change BY R. B. WHITE Memorial Hall at RMWC. ment will be granted. Serious illness will be drawn closer together." tween the two colleges. On Saturday, April 2nd. Lynch- The Lynchburg Club has gone to in the immediate family will be Constitution . The club numbers 625, and Mr. burg will be the scene of many great pains to publicize this attrac- honored for deferment. All cadets Hagan extended an invitation to Episcopal Club Veterans Must deferred will be required to attend entertainment activities to which tion to the Lynchburg populace. any and all alumni who would the entire Corps has been invited. the summer camp of their branch Snafued Class At Sweet Briar like to join. The local newspapers have carried First on the dockct of entertain- Meets Sunday Notify Agency the summer following graduation At the meeting of the board of General Richard J Marshall, ment features will be a Tea Dance information concerning this con- All requests for deferment must System To Be at Randoiph-Macon Women's Col- cert, and the local alumni chapter be addressed to Second Army governors of the Virginia Asso-' Superintedent of VMI. then intro- With W-L Club Of Transfers duced General Lemuel C Shep lege. A cordial invitation has bcert is "talking it up" in their own re- Headquarters through the PMS&T. ciation of International Relations " Changed Soon Clubs last weekend at Sweet Briar herd, commandant of the Marine extended to the Corps by the spective business establishments BY KEITH BI.EECKF.R A veteran attending school under Pay and Privileges College, several important decis- Corps school of Quantico and a Freshman Cl^ss to attend this after- The Lynchburg Club has waited a the G.I. Bill who intends to enter The Institute, in a drastic re- The Bible class of the VMI Besides $75 a month, cadets will ions were reached. The meeting graduate of VMI. class of '17, who noon of dancing in a sociable, vision of policy in regard to the long time for the opportunity of Canterbury Club, conducted in co- a different institution this summer receive five cents a mile travel- had very little to do with a con- made the presentation address. friendly atmosphere. The plans are extension of priveleges to members offering such an evening of enter- operation with that of W and I,, should apply as soon as possible ling pay to and from their homes sideration of the international sit- In his discourse. General Shep- to have the Tea Dance begin at of a class who have for one reason herd observed that he had found tainment in their nearby metrop- will meet next Sunday morning at for a supplemental certificate of or points of origin. Students will uation. but was devoted ,to estab- 4 o'clock and be over in sufficient also be given the privilege of using or another not advanced with their Herb inseperably attached to VMI olis and only now has that oppor- 10 p.m. in the Student Union eligibility, the Veterans Adminis- lishing a method whereby the time for all to enjoy a picnic sup- the post laundry service at a charge brother rats, announced a change sports for the last two decades. Building on the Washington and state organization could be made per at the college. The supper will tunity availed itself. It is no secret tration said today. Application of two dollars a month for twenty- in its stand on the matter. Im- Since he arrived at the Institute Lee campus. Since it is necessary more effective. probably be held on the pleasant that they are making the most of should be made at least 30 days six pieces of laundry a week. mediately after the war. all re- in March of 1929. Herb has served grounds surrounding the college's for all cadets to leave here before Constitution Changed their chance for all of Lynchburg prior to re-entrance. Cadets are discouraged from bring- turning veterans were gi'anted the as trainer under Ihree coaches, pond at the rear of the campus. first call for church, those desir- privileges of the other men of I. Several changes in the state con- Bill Raftery. "Pooley" Hubert is looking forward to the concert. Such veterans must have sup- ing dependents to camp inasmuch ing to attend must sign the permit. their respective classes who had j stitution were affected. In place of Glee Club to Perform All of the proceeds obtained from plemental certificates before they as housing facilities are already and "Slick" Morton, and this fall Permit sheets may be found, in remained in school. This meant the usual setup which provides will serve with the fourth—Tom Upon the completion ol the sup- the one dollar admission will go can be admitted lo new schools 'or strained to the breaking point on rooms 225. 248. 250, 410, or 431, and per, the Lynchburg Club begins courses. VA said. Application forms most posts. Civilian clothing may that many men taking third class for two meetings a year, one con- Nugent. Evidence of Herb's efficient into the Glee Club treasury. subjects were legally first class- its role in the day's activities by should be signed not later than for these certificates may bo ob- be brought to camp, but cadets ference. the other a meeting of service is his recent appointment men. or seconds, whatever the case presenting a concert featuring Informal Dance for Corps Thursday of this week. tained from the registrar's office will be allowed to wear civilian the board of governors, there will bo by the Board of Visitors to the might have been. This new order VMI's Glee Club. Colonel Dillard's And this isn't all!! At the con- The Canterbury Club wishes to at their school or from any VA clothes only during ofT-duty hours two meetings of the entire Virginia position of Direotor of Physical revokes the provisions outlined in songsters have been preparing a clusion of the concert by the Glee extend a most cordial invitation to office.