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KENNEDY 

IS DEAD 

JOHN FITZGERALD 

KENNEDY 

36th President of the United States 

At approximately 1:30 p.m. today. President of the 

United States John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, 

Texas. As his motorcade passed under a triple tunnel, three 

bullets shot from somewhere behind the Presidential car, 

tore through the auto mortally wounding Kennedy. The Governor 

of Texas, John Connelly, was also struck in the head 

by the bullets and is in critical condition in a Dallas hospital. 

Kennedy was given last rites by the Roman Catholic Church 

shortly before he was pronounced dead at 2:32 p.m. this afternoon. 

Thanksgiving Events Planned 

For Weekend At Institute 

Preparations are in full swing 

for the Thanksgiving weekend at 

the Virginia Militarj' Irisititute- - 

annually the most festive and active 

of all weekejids. 

Included among the events are 

the annual VMI-VPI football game 

in Roanoke on Thanksgiving Day, 

the Ring Figure Dance Friday 

night, another dance Saturday 

night, and a concert 

evening. 

Wednesday 

Thursday morning, the 1,100- 

man corps of cadets aiui the regimental 

band will travel by bus to 

Roanoke for the football game at 

Victory' SUdium. The kickoff for 

the 59th meeting between these 

two rivals is set for 1:30 p m. 

Before the game, the ceremonial 

saber which serves as the trophy 

of the game, will be presented to 

Gov. Albert is S. Harrison Jr. The 

piTwsentation will be made by Cadet 

Banjamin R. Gardner of Martinsville, 

the vice president of the 

VMI first class, and Cade< Col. 

Robert Russell, the VPI regimental 

commander. 

Governor Harrison will present 

the ceremonial saber to the captains 

of the wiiming team following 

the game. 

Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, November 22. 1963 

Wednesday night, the VMI Commanders 

will giive a concert in 

Jackson Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. 

The concert is open to the public 

and will feature vocalist Patsy 

Jarvis of Lexington. , 

Classes will be suspended 

from Thursday uiUil Friday 

noon, and the inispectioiii and dress 

parade will be advanced in the 

Friday schedule to start at 3:15 

p.m. 

The traditional Ring Dance is 

slated for Friday ni^t with dancing 

from 9 p.m. to midnight to 

the music of Count Ba&ie and his 

orchestra. 

Leading the Ring Figure will be 

Oadet Charles L. Siegel Jr.. of 

White Stone, Virgiiua, with Miss 

Rosa B McLaughlin of Lexington, 

a freshmati at Mar>' Baldwin College. 

Some 200 cooiples are expectod 

to take part in the figure in which 

the second classmen receive thîr 

class rings. 

Ai.oiher loinul dance will be 

hdlJ Saturday m^h: with Cout'.t 

Basie and h.i o:xiiestra again plcyiiig 

fo.- v-ancir.i from 9 p.:n. tj 

Series Of 

Lighten 

Concerts 

Number 19 

Atmosphere 

For Cadets And Visitors 

Commanders To ®Band & Glee Clulf Opera Star Sings 

Present 

Concert 

Wednesday night the Vj\n Commanders 

will present their first 

concei-t of the season in Jackson 

Memorial Hall at 8:00 P. M. Members 

of the Corps of Cadets, their 

In years gone by, the Commanders 

have given concerts. Recently, 

however, the orchestra had ' 

gotten away from the practice, j 

playing only for dance engagements. 

This concert, therefore, is 

something entirely new to the | 

pressent Corps, as no cadet in j 

barracks has ever seen the orchestra 

in concert. 

The Commanders, who have been ; 

the most outstanding collegiate i 

dance orchestra in the state of , 

Virginia for the past two academic I 

years, are now planning their trip 

to Europe this sun\mer. Because | 

many of the engagements, includ- j 

ing a three week concert tour of i 

the militarj- installations in Den- j 

mark, will requii-e that the band I 

perform on the stage. Cadet Frank ; 

Frosch, leader of the orchestra, 

pro- 

has re-initiated the concert 

grams. 

While in Europe, the Commanders 

have been booked to present 

(Contiuned on Page 2) 

Proctor Gets 

Scholarship 

Philip Morris, Inc., has awarded 

a Work Scholarship to Russell C. 

Proctor III, of Richmond, Ray 

Jones, Philip Morris Vice President 

for Sales, has announced. 

The major cigarette and tobacco 

firm, which was the first in the i 

industry to support college-level ] 

education by this method, also! Suite by Vaughn Williams. This 

makes grants for higher education collection of three folk songs featured 

Chris Hopkins of to children of its employees and 

Arlington 

contributes to education and researeh 

institutions in many areas 

of the country. 

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. 

Proctor Jr.. who reside at 3608 

Edgewood Avenue, Richmond, Mr. 

Proctor will serve as liaison between 

this college and the company's 

New York offices. 

He will develop and inaugurate 

advertising and promotion projects 

for Philip Morris, Parliament, 

Marlboro, Alpine and Paxton 

Brands and the company's American 

Safety Razor, Bunna Vita and 

Cdark Chewing Gum subsidiaries. 

He will obtain practical business 

experience to supplement his 

classroom work. 

Many of Philip Morris 'executives 

began their careers in college. 

While the company's financial 

assistance to undergraduates 

carries no obligation, a number of 

work scholarship students have 

joined the company after having 

been associated with Philip Morris 

during their college careers. 

Perform 

Together 

Last Friday night the Regimental 

Band and the Glee Club of the 

Virginia Military Institute presented 

the first joint concert of the 

two musical organizations. It was 

dates, and visitors for the Ring debut night for Captain Richard 

Figure Weekend have been invited. 

Music at \'MI—and he camc 

G. Huffman ,the new Director of 

through with nothing but praise 

from all those who were in attendance. 

Playing to a capacity audience, 

the Reginiental Band presented the j 

first one-third of the concert alone. 

After the Star Spangled Banner, 

the audience was immediately delighted 

when they discovered that 

this would not be a long band concert 

of ho-hum marches, but instead 

a collection of semi-classical 

arrangements. 

The first number of the evening 

was the concert overture 

Zampa. Featuriiig the concertmeister 

David Kaliski and his section 

on some very difficult clarinet 

solis. the work moved through 

its phases of fortissimo and piano 

in a very commendable manner. 

The finale of the overture, most 

difficult in that it demands a gradual 

increase in tempo until almost 

a presto tempo is reached, was 

handled with the finesse of a professional 

concert band by the cadets. 

Ne.xt on the program was the 

new arrangement of Exodus and 

Themes from Exodus for concert 

band. Magestic in tempo aft the 

beginnir^ and the conclusion, the 

slight pause in the middle of the 

piece for a rumba tempo set every 

foot in the Hall tapping to the Latin-American 

rhj-thni of the band. 

Once again the Regimental Band 

turned to light classical works for 

its third presentation—Folk Song 

and Will Scott of Richmond on 

trumpet solos. The first selection 

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For RCTS 

Patrons 

Miss Teresa Stich-Randall, glamorous 

soprano star of the Metropolitan 

and Vienna State Operas 

opened the 1963-64 Rockbridge 

Concert Theater Series on Wednesday, 

November 20. The recital 

took place at 8=15 in Jackson Memorial 

Hall. It served as the Series 

opener because of the cancellation 

of the scheduled October 17 concert 

by the National Symphony 

[ Orchestra. 

Miss Stich-Randall's triumphs in 

Europe and her sensational Metroi 

politan debut made it especially 

j pleasing to the Series management 

; to be able to open the season with 

her recital. 

Miss Stich-Randall's carrer got 

off to a flying start when, at the 

I age of nineteen. Arturo To&canini 

selected her to sing in radio, recurring 

performances of 'Aida' and 

'Falstaff.' Calling her voice the 

find of the century, the Maestro 

! advised her to go to Europe for 

' experience, but admonished her 

I not to study as hers was a natural 

, voice. This was certainly evident 

to the large audience Wednesday 

night. 

She has mastered four languages, 

and sings all her operatic 

roles in at least two different languages. 

Mozart she sang Wednesday 

evening both in French and 

German. 

Miss Stich-Randall began her 

concert with a series of selections 

from Mozart. After a long introductory 

selection, 'Misera, dove 

son!' she lightened her other num- 

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CADET RUSSELL PROCTOR 

On Wednesday 27 November 

1963, Dean Elvin J. Latty of 

Duke University Law School 

will visit VMI to talk with 

cadets interested in studying 

law at Duke. Interested cadets 

should see Maj. Wilson in 535 

Scott Shipp Hall or Bill 

Thompson in room 105.

y MI Research 

Labs Chartered 

A number of new proposals are 

currently being studied by tiie 

aievvly-established VMI Research 

l-aboratories at the Virginia Military 

Institute. 

Inquiries and examinations are 

being carried out preparatory to 

selecting new programs for the 

laboratories. "Four projects arc 

row underway, and we are considering 

several recently-submitted 

proposals. Although we have 

been operating a comparatively 

short time, we are gaining momentum 

daily," noted Dr. James 

M. Morgan Jr., director of the 

research program and VMI professor 

of civil engineering. 

The VMI Research Laboratories 

were incorporated recently as a 

non profit organization under the 

laws of the Commonwealth. Dr. 

D. Rae Carpenter Jr., professor 

of physics, serves as deputy direc 

tor of the program. 

The formation of the ViVII Research 

Laboratories received its 

inipetus about a year ago from 

Maj. Gen. George R. E. Shell, 

VMI superintendent, who foresaw 

the organization as an aid to the 

Institute's prime mission— educa 

ition of the undergraduate student. 

A survey conducted by Dr. 

Morgan and Dr. Carpenter established 

that there existed the interest, 

capabilities, and facilities 

needed for the formation of such 

an organization. 

The VMI Board of Visitors adde

SHOWN IN COSTUME is Teresa Stich-Randall, whose recital in 

Jackson Memorial Hall at 8:15 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 20 opened 

the 63-64 Rockbridge Concert-Theater Series. Her program included 

songs by Mozart, Schubert and Debussy, and operatic arias 

by Verdi and Puccini. 

Dr. Leo Piatt 

Optometrist 

ROANOKE, VA. 

Virginia Politics 

To Be Analyzed 

By McDowell 

Virginia politics will be analyz- 

|,ed by syndicated columnist Charles 

' McDowell Jr. in a talk at Lee 

-Chapel Monday, Nov. 25. 

t The public program at 7:30 p.m. 

; is under the auspiccs of the National 

Capitol Area Center For 

Education in Politics, Dr. Mtlion 

Colvin and Col. B. McCluer Gilliam 

are the local campus representatives. 

Mr. McDowell, who was educat 

ed in the Lexington public schools 

and graduated from Washington 

and Lee University, is the son of 

Charles R. McDowell, professor 

of law at Washington and Lee, and 

Mrs. McDowell. 

A Richmond Times-Dispatch writer 

since 1949, he now writes a 

column on the lighter side of the 

American scene, but also involving 

such topics as national political 

conventions. Congress, and 

Khruschev's US tour. 

The three weekly columns are 

distributed nationally by the Register 

and Tribune Syndicate. 

The author of two books, collections 

of his columns, won the 

National Headlines Award in 1960. 

Senior Physics 

ors 

University 

This Friday, November 22, nine 

first class physics majors, acccompanied 

by CoL Newman and Maj.' 

Minnix, will be leaving for a short j 

itinerary to the University of Vir-| 

ginia. The purpose of the trip is 

to give these prospective graduates | 

students an opportunity to see 

graduate work in operation, the 

possible types of work in which 

they could be engaged, and the 

atmosphere and equipment by 

which they would be surrounded. 

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This visit around the physics department 

will be conducted in the 

afternoon, while the everting will 

be filled with a visit to the nuclear 

engineering department and 

the reactor facility kept there. The 

Assistant Director of the facility 

is Dr. T. G. Williamson, a graduate 

in physics from VMI in the 

class of 5. On hand to demonstrate 

the reactor to students that evening 

will be a VMI graduate from 

the class of '63, Lee Spessard, who 

is currently engaged in working 

on his master's degree in nuclear 

engineering. This will conclude the 

group's trip, and they are expected 

to return to barracks just before 

taps that evening. 

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Stick ' Randall 

(Continued from'page one) 

bers in.^tWs set, being especially 

effective in hpr rendition of 'Oiseaux, 

si tous les ans.' 

In the second half of her program 

she^tuttied to a series of selections 

'fi^ . Schubert. Although 

she was quUe elegant on all the 

.numbers from this great master, 

inclodiiig a Brief exercise in vocal 

gymnastics ift' 'Die Vogel,' the 

whole "series was overshadowed by 

ft magnificenl rendition of 'Nacht 

ftnd Tttfume.' This song, versed in 

the slow melancholy often found 

in Schubfert, was dramatized to 

perfection by the dynamic treatment 

of Ijliss, Stich-Randall. Upon 

interview'with her accompanist after 

the concert, he commented to 

the CADET that this was the best 

performance of this particular 

number he has heard in his 25 

' years of opera experience. 

tress come to life through her 

professional interpretation. 

For her final selection of the 

concert. Miss Stich-Randall chose 

to perform the very difficult 'Vissi 

d'Arte' from Puccini's 'Tosca.' This 

selection, a plea for mercy from 

the operatic singer Tosca, is known 

for its very wide range and difficult 

chromatic runs. Needless to 

say, she handled all those passages 

in admirable style, thus leaving 

the audience breathless and standing 

in ovation for her. 

The Rockbridge patrons would 

not be satisfied until Miss Stich- 

Randall had performed two encores 

and still were demanding 

iijore when the house lights were 

concert. Upon completion of this 

next week, '^she will return to 

Vienna and the Vienna State Opera 

House, whose season is currently 

in progress. 

chanqe^ 

by Bobby Watson 

This week we have decided to 

resume our policy of enlightening 

journalism with a column directed 

to our most avid readers in the 

Gorps,vtihe serious scholars. Our 

news •comes first from College 

Station, Texas. 

"The Battalion" of Texas A&M 

University reported in a recent 

i.ssue that a group of five intellectual 

Aggies would meet Ripon 

College on NBC's "General Electric 

College Bowl." This, for those 

few bored engineers who may be 

reading Exchange Notes, is the old 

television panel show idea adapted 

scholastic com- 

to intercollegiate 

petition. 

The five A&M students were 

chosen from a field of thirty-five 

and kept in constant training for 

six months. They took a series of 

written test, engaged in many 

oral sessions,! and appeared on 

•Her final number before intermission, 

a selection from La Traviata^ 

was equally excellent in its 

"presentation. 

After" the intermission. Miss 

Stich-Jlandall opened the second 

half of her concert by turning to 

Debussy. Thoagh his 'Ariettes Oubliees*^ 

are riot well known, their 

impressionistic beauty was immediately 

pleasing to the audi contest. 

television to sharpen up for the 

ence in the Hall. 

Ripon College is a privte coeducational 

liberal arts college in 

For the final portion of her 

concert. Miss Stich-Randall chal- Wisconsin. The school has a program 

of cooperation with the 

' lenged herself by singing two very 

- different selections from Puccini. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

and the Illionis Institute of 

In the first, a selection from "La 

Boheme." she made the silent and Technology. Enrollment is less 

modest love song of a young seam- 

than a thousand. 

A&M's five team members (four 

regulars and an alternate) were, 

according to The Battalion, "eager, 

enthusiastic, aggressive, and and 

intelligent, a fine group of boys 

with an excellent chance of winning." 

They lost. 

From William and Mary comes 

the certified formula for winning 

Phi Beta Kappa keys. The Flat Hat 

recently published a review of 

"Time Magazine's up-dated mannal 

no this age-old sport." In the 

article Time quoted a University 

of California publication as saying 

"Grades are your means of 

getting into gi'aduate school; your 

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happy; your means of avoiding 

the Army." To get high marks, 

Time suggests that the student 

should act "like an interested intellectual," 

even though his only 

interest is the grade. 

Various methods of psychological 

manipulation of instructors arc 

discussed. The most elementary is 

open only to coeds, who may appeal 

to a professor's sympathy, 

or vanity (or something). Recent 

developments are fraternity house 

dossieurs on professors' eccentricities. 

These allow more subtle 

appeals to vanity such as imitation 

of the teacher's mannerisms 

and ostentatious devotion to his 

preferences in reading matter, for 

example. 

Giving the professor what he 

wants on exams is another problem 

for the grade hunter. Even 

a VMI liberal artist may testify to 

that. Time says that here there 

seems to be a different in "methodology" 

from East to West. The 

Harvard "Crimson" asserts that 

the best way to fool an exam 

grader is by "use of the vague 

generality, the artful equivocation, 

and the overpowering assumption." 

Western teachers, on the 

other hand, want other things. 

An assistant profefssor of English 

,at Stanford summarizes thus: 

"Your only job is to kep me awake. 

How? BY FACTS. They are what 

we look for as we skim our lynx 

eyes over every other page—â 

name, a place, an allusion, a brand 

of deodorant . . ." 

Well, there you have it. Now 

we all know how to get good 

grades. That is, we know how, if 

weare attending Harvard or Stanford, 

which we are not. So, presumably 

we do not know how after 

all. Oh, well. 

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into the public image of the news 

media and seem to survive and 

flouirsh only on publicity? Obviously, 

news media build up these 

personalities to bolster public support. 

ThLs reflects nothing more 

than economic necessity in a capitalistic 

society on me part of the 

news ihcdia, but the public can 

hardly escape as relatively unschathed. 

As the arbiters, at least 

in part, of what is published, the 

public must receive the majority 

of responsibility for such poor examples 

of journalism. Were the 

public to refuse to patronize the 

offender, he would immediately b« 

destroyed economically. The jour^ 

nalists, although they should he 

independent of public preferences, 

could still refuse to publicize 

areas of questionable taste. 

Can there be an effective soll^ 

tion worked out to this question? 

An area open to action would appear 

to be concerted effort in botJi 

quaintatits of his relatioaship. It 

the press could tone down or omit 

references which might be considered 

in poor taste, and if at the 

same time action were taken by 

civic groups to raise the level of 

public taste, then progress could 

be made beneficial to both. 

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{Author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boijs!" 

and "Barefoot Boy With Cheek.") 

AND JAZZ LIKE 

ACQUAINTANCE 

THAT 

I am now an elderly gentleman, full of years and aches, but 

my thoughts keep ever turning to my undergraduate days. Tliie 

IB called "arrested development." 

But I cannot stop the healing tide of nostalgia tliat washes 

over me as I recall those golden campus days, those ivy-covered 

buildings (actually, at my college, there was only ivy: no bricks), 

those pulse-tingling lectures on John Dryden and Cotton 

Mather, the many friends I made, the many deans I bit. 

I know some of you are already dreading the day when you 

graduate and lose touch with all your merry classmates. It is 

my pleasant task today to assure you that it need not be so; 

all you have to do is join the Alumni Association and every year 

you will receive a bright, newsy, chatty bulletin, chock-full of 

tidings about your old buddies. 

Oh, what a red-letter day it is at my house, the day th« 

Alumni Bulletin arrives! I cancel all my engagements, take the 

phone off the hook, dismiss my resident osteopath, put the 

cheetah outside, and settle down for an evening of pure pleasure 

with the Bulletin and (need I add?) a good .supply of Marlboro 

Cigarettes. 

Whenever I am having fun, a Marlboro makes the fun even 

more fun. That filter, that flavor, that yielding soft pack, that 

firm Flip Top box, never fails to heighten my pleasure whether 

I »m playing Double Canfield or watching the radio or knitting 

an afghan or enjoying any other diverting pursuit you might 

name—except, of course, spear fishing. But then, how much 

•pear fishing does one do in Clovis, New Mexico, where I live? 

But 1 digress. Iêt us. return to my Alumni Bulletin and th« 

fascinating news about my old friends and classmates. I quot« 

from the current issue: 

"Well, fellow alums, it certainly has been a wing-dinger of • 

year for us old grads! Remember Mildred Cheddar and Harry 

Camembert, those crazy kids who always held hands in Econ II? 

Well, they're married now and living in Clovis, New Mexico, 

where Harry rents spear-fishing equipment, and Mildred has just 

given |>irth to a lovely 28-pound daughter, her second in fouf 

months. Nice going, Mildred and Harry 1 

"Remember Jethro Brie, the man we voted most likely to 

•ucceed? Well, old Jethro is still gathering laurels! Last week 

be was voted 'Motorman of the Year' by his fellow workers in 

the Duluth streetcar system. 'I owe it all to my brakeman,? 

liftid Jethro in a characteristically modest acceptance speech. 

Same old Jethro! 

"Probably the most glamorous time had by any of us old 

ulums was had by Francis Maeomber last year. He went on a 

big game hunting safari all the way to Africa! We received many 

interesting post cards froia Francis until he was, alas, accidentally 

shot and killed by his wife and white hunter. Tough 

luck, Francis! 

"Wilametta 'Deadeye' Maeomber, widow of the late Moved 

Francis Maeomber, was married yestertlay to Fred 'Sureshot' 

Sigafoos, white hunter, in a simple double-ring ceremony ia 

Kairobi. Many happy returns, Wilametta and J-^red! 

"Well, alums, that just about wraps it up for this year. 

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The VMI Cadet, Friday, November 15, 1963 

Keydets Clobber Citadel 33 - 8 

Harriers 3rd 

In Stale Meet 

"William and Mai*y's Cross country 

team managed to emerge victorious 

over favored West Virginda 

in the annual Southern Conference 

Cross Country Meet held 

held at Blacksburg. The VMI Harriers 

ran well though their lack 

of front runners pushed them 

back to a third place. It had been 

previously estimated that these 

three teams would vie for honors 

with U. WVa. being favored. 

Johnson and Lawson finished 

first and second, a feat which immediately 

gave William and Mary 

the initiative and the advantage. 

VMI's Jack Frazer finished a strong 

third with Kubic of WVA following. 

Patterson of Furman was 

fifth, Sweney (WVa.) was sixth, 

and VMI's Frank Louthan secured 

a commendable seventh. The next 

runners to score for VMI was Jim 

Sinclair (13) and Nat Ward (18). 

The four and a quarter mile 

course had been laid out over 

rolling meadows and dirt roads. 

The weather was a little warm for i 

distance running and the dust was 

omnipresent. Johnson took the 

lead and was not challenged for i 

a 21:48.8 course record. In the last i 

quarter mile, officials had to di- I 

rect the weary runner back onto j 

the road ,as he had wandered off 

into the surrounding field. 

Had one attempted to predict 

the individual outcome of this 

meet, he would have been sorely 

dlisappointed. Favored to contend 

for first place laurels was Roger 

Meador of WVA. It was thought 

that this runner was capable of 

ousting Johnson from the favored 

position, but Meador came 

in 42nd place after running an 

unxJefeated season In the Conference 

. 

Virtually unheard of was Frank 

Louthan who came up from behind 

at the two mile mark and 

paced his way to a seventh place 

slot. When questioned about this 

fine performance, he merely replied 

that he felt better when he 

passed the two mile mark and noticed 

that runners were falling 

by the wayside or dizzily weaving 

in an attempt to clear their heads. 

And,indeed this was true. Of the 

74 runners who started out, twenty 

of these were forced to quit along 

therugged course. The initial pace 

was very rapid and those who at- 

(Continued on Pago 7) 

VMI 

Chitshoot 

Riflemen 

Purdue 

Thursday afternoon the VMI 

Rifle team put on its best showing 

of the still young match season 

wtih a decisive 1428-1415 win over 

Purdue University on the VMI Indoor 

Ranige. 

High man for the Keydets was 

John Cunninghams, who fired a 

scorching 292 out of a possible 300. 

But even this great effort was 

overshadowed by the record-setting 

performance of W. R. Walsh. 

Walsh, in the process of sighting 

in on a 288 total, broke the old 

VMI match record for the kneeling 

position. With a perfect 100 

point total and 7X, or seven deadcenter 

bulls, Walsh has set a mark 

that should stand in the record 

books for quite some tini«, 

(Coptinued On Page 7) 

PJ 

BIG DAN PHLEGAR, a standout in last Saturday's victory over 

the Citadel, hauls in another Nunnally aerial in the shadow of 

the goalposts. 

Sport slight 

Finals ceremonies of 1962 saw a 

truly great athlete in VMI history 

receive an award for being out 

standing in the "minor sports." 

The man was George Collins who 

overcame a heart operation the 

summer of 1960 to set records in 

freestyle competition at the Southern 

Conference Swimming Championships 

the following two years. 

In 1962, after being elected outstanding 

swimmer in the conference 

for his performance, he went 

on 1o the Eastern Invitations where 

he placed in freestyle. 

By BILL MENDEL 

George passed through Lexington 

recently on his way to Texas 

and an Air Force assignment. His 

brief visit recalled past swimming 

meets and old friends who 

were once competitors. Most impressive 

for those of us who talked 

with Collins was his healty attitude 

toward competition and 

sports in general. Here was an 

athlete who's one goal was improving 

his abilities; for Collins 

this also meant winning. 

Too often those athletes of the 

so-c.alled "minor sports" spend 

thoughts on such special "gripes" 

as no scholarship aid and little active 

support from athletic departments. 

Collins found little time 

for such self pity. The fact that 

his sport was only "minor" in the 

eyes of administrative officials 

never bothered the Champ who 

ground home victory after victory 

for his team. In 1962 George was 

boned here at the Institute for 

flying a VMI penant on the Citadel 

flagpole after we won the 

Southern Conference Championships. 

Unfazed by the large penalty, 

George Collins went on to the 

Eastern Intercollegiate Championships 

to win points for VMI. He 

was little concerned about having 

the support of his school; he had 

the desire to win. But many of 

us cannot compete without an occasional 

pat on the back. 

The real trouble stems from the 

fact that quite necessarily football 

and basketball must be given adequate 

publicity if the season is to 

be financially successful. Like any 

entertainment venture it must be 

sold; if it fails, well, "That's Show 

biz." While an Admssions Board 

may benefit from a rousing football 

season, those less entertaining 

sports fall further into the 

(Continued on Page 7) 

GEORGE COLUNS 

A Spirit of Competition 

Stage Set For Title 

Test In Roanoke As 

VPI Trips W. Virginia 

Once again the Keydets of VMI 

showed how unpredictable they 

could be, but this time it was a 

little better fashion. Running and 

passing with extreme daring, this 

strong VMI squad flexed its muscles 

and poured it on its helpless 

military counterparts from South 

Carolina, 33-8. Surprisingly enough 

the Keydets amassed a total of 

539 yards total offense which broke 

a long-standing school record set 

in 1956, they also managed to tic 

a school record with 23 first downs. 

It all started in the first quarter 

80 yai-ds away from the Citadel 

goal. On the first play from 

scrimmage Granny Amos plowed 

up the middle for 38 yards, and 

the Keydets used only four more 

plays, including a 36 yard pass 

from Butch Nunnally to Joe Bush, 

to gain the lead which they never 

relinquished. Ricky Parker's try 

for the PAT was partially blocked, 

but VMI was just beginning 

to score. 

The next time the Keydetst got 

their hands on the ball they traveled 

88 yards—on the ground 

and through the air. This series of 

plays saw Nunnally pass 13 yards 

to Dan Fhlegar, 16 yards to Joe 

Bush, 12 yards to Chuck Beale, 

and the final 19 yards to Phlegar 

again. Big Dan also snared Nunnally's 

pass over the middle 

the two-point conversion. 

for 

The Citadel managed to put 

together its eight points with 5:J2 

left in the first half, and this closed 

the gap to 14-8, VMI. 

However, the Institute struck 

right back with a little over a 

minute remaining in the half. Pintsized 

Donnie White made his debut 

a memorable one as he scampered 

the final ten yards of a 63 

yard drive. For Don, it was his 

first appearance in over five weeks, 

and his TD made the halftirno 

(Continued on page 7) 

Swimmers Prepare 

For Current Season 

The W&L Varsity swimming 

team came to VMI on the 8th and 

15th of November to do battle 

with our own varsity mermen. Although 

these were only practice 

meets, they served to give both 

teams an idea of just how each 

could expect its season to go. 

Both practice meets were run 

very informally, and scores were 

not kept. It is locally felt, however, 

that VMI won both meets— 

by how much it cannot be said. 

In the first meet on Friday 

Nov. 8th, VMI Coach Charles Arnold, 

made another swimming discovery. 

In the 400 yard medley 

relay he had hoped John Aldous 

a former freestyler, could fill the 

butterfly slot and do a 1:15 for 

the 100 yards, a respectable time 

for anyone not normally swimming 

butterfly. John dove in the pool 

and came out, much to the coach's 

delight with a time of 1:03 for the 

distance. John Aldpus butterflier 

has been discovered. 

into the ways of Coach Arnold 

and the running of a meet. 

The second meet was Friday, 

November 15th, and was run off 

very quickly. Pat Kearney came 

back after the first meet and won 

the diving event. 

The 400 freestyle relay team 

turned in a time of 3:49.9, which 

should lead the way to a good, as 

usual free relay season. Bernie 

Vincent and Bill Mendel looked 

good, as usual, in the breastroke 

events. Dick Goodall is back on 

the team after a bout with a 

lawnmower and is looking good 

in the backstroke. 

Jim Hogler and Doug Bergere, 

managers, are keeping the team 

spirit up and are always on hand 

with the Athletic Department's 

Corps acquired towels. 

The Rat swimming team met 

the W&L Frosh Tuesday evening, 

November 19th. Not faring as well 

as the varsity, many of them were 

participating in their first organized 

meet of any kind. There were 

Other standouts in the first meet 

were Mike Kearney, John Hill, 

j few individuals standouts with the 

Bill Rimm, and John Meybin. Rusty 

Harris has joined the varsity 

I exception of Sam Shackleford, who 

j turned in 2:11 for the 200 yard 

after an absence of two years, and 

1 freestyle, touching out the man 

should be helpful as the season 

' from W&L. The tables were turned 

progresses. Bob Stribling, Rat 

! in the 500 yard free style, howswimming 

manager, was initiated 

SPORTS 

! ever, when Sam got touched out 

(Continued On Page 7) 

STAFF 

EDITOR JIM STOKE 

ASSOCIATES BILL MENDEL, 

JIM SIPOLSKI 

Writers: 

Bill Crpne, Walley Hawkins, Gene Marshall, 

Nat Ward, George Travis, Dee Stallings and Les Rutledge

Harriers Third 

(Continued From Page 8) 

temped to stay with the front 

runners were quickly forced out 

of the race. Arm and leg cramps 

were a common coplaint, but 

plain exhaustion was the determining 

factor. 

After the meet was over and 

awards had been handed out, the 

officials announced the eight runners 

who had been selected to represent 

the All Southern Conference 

Team. Receiving the third 

greatest number of votes was 

"Whiskey-Joe" Jack Frazier who 

had earlier secured third place 

in the meet. This award was based 

on past performances during 

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The top five marksmen for the 

Keydets were Walsh, Cummings, 

Marshall, Wick and Smith. 

Hampered by an extremely low 

budget ($500 yearly), the riflemen 

are never-the-less undefeated so 

far this season with victories over 

Notre Dame, Richmond, and now 

Purdue. 

M/Sgt. Palesky, coach of this 

year's team, was pleased with the 

match results, and the continued 

improvement that the team has 

shown; he looks forward to an 

excellent season. 

Future opponets of this season 

include VPI, The iCtadel, The University 

of Virginia, and The Air 

Force Academy. The highlight of 

the season will be a match with 

the cadets of West Point, to be 

held in Lexington. 

the season, dependent upon the 

outcome of the individual's effort 

in the Conference Meet. Frazer 

has been one of VMI's more outstanding 

runners, placing first in 

numerous meets, and he had held 

the school record until Jim Sinclair 

captured it 

As for the scoring, W&M amassed 

41 points, WVa. 48. VMI 69, 

Sportslight 

Davidson 99, Furman 119, Tech (Continued from Page 6) 

169, Richmond 173, and Citadel 

217.. ' 

monetary haze which shrouds any 

This concludes the cross country 

season leaving VMI with 6-2 

Olympic concept of sports as a development 

of the individual. When 

record, losing only to W&M and 

this individual lets an adlministrative 

scrimmage diminish his ef- 

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forts on the track, in the pool, or 

only remaining contest which involves 

distance running. The date 

on the mats, he begins to feel sorry 

for himself. Collins was never 

is Dec. 7 and the distance is 6 

heard to utter that familiar statement, 

"Well, they've got a schol- 

miles. An invitation is cordialy extended 

to participate to those who 

arship team, how are we supposed 

enjoy running and those who scoff 

to win?" Unfortunately this idea 

it. 

is all to prevalent in the lockerrooms 

today. 

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represent their school in raigged 

sweats is no justifiaction for a poor 

performance. Often we are tempted 

to hide a lesser effort in a 

volley of charges against a scapegoat. 

real or chiameric. Tom Hill, 

now Captain of the wrestling team, 

has long been convinced that the 

VMI athlete is able to hold his 

own against subsidized competition 

IF the desire is present. In 

a one sport school like VMI it is 

all too easy to convince yourself 

that no one cares whether your 

team wins or lose. If this is true 

then Collins would invite us to 

look at the facts: you swim, run, 

or whatever, for yourself and the 

team; what your school thinks of 

the sport is irrelevent. It the 

"Ma,ior Sports" in the collegiate 

circiut today lose sight of the 

Olympic ideals of amateur competion 

because of a super-interest 

in the win-lose column, it does not 

follow that the spoiis which arc 

held in lesser favor by school administrators 

must neglect those 

Obmpian essentials of hard work, 

desire for personal development, 

and competitive spirit. Collins was 

never so naive as not to realize 

thait his efforts were overlooked, 

but he was honest enought to hold 

to an outstanding spirit of competition. 

It was this spirt that made 

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score 20-8. 

The Cadets from VMI, again led 

by Donnie White, struck for two 

more touchdowns in the third period. 

Butch Nunnally capped a 71 

yard march when he hit White 

ten yards away from the Citadel 

goal to run the score up to 26-8. 

VMI's final marker at Alumni 

Field this fall was guided by Charlie 

Snead. White ran twice for 

fifteen yards and snagged a 60 

yard pass from Snead to account 

for most of the yardage. Bill Davis 

bulled over from the one, 

and Parker booted the extra point. 

This completed the scoring as the 

resen'es finished the game. 

From the second time this year 

VMI's dormant offense "woke up." 

It should at least prove that this 

team is capable, for it will get its 

big opportunity on Thursday. If 

the Keydets can rise to the occasion, 

as have so many VMI teams 

in the past, they can walk oft 

with the Southern Conference 

championship. 

As coach John McKenna said 

way back when, "we're the champions 

until someone beats us." 

As it stands now, no one in the 

conference has been able to find 

the right combination. 

Maybe Lady Luck will shine 

down on Thanksgiving Day and 

keep this successful string going. 

It all adds up to a bad day for 

Mr. Bob Schweickert and Company, 

for the Keydets are in no 

mood to play second best. 

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will be a lot of distance work 

sprints run in the next two weeks 

as both teams prepare for these 

openers. Those famous words 

"ready—go" are again echoing off 

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Rat Marksmen Set Sights On A 

National Rifle Championship 

"I Don't look now, but a new inter- 

Collegiate power may be growing 

fcere at VMI. While King Football 

tias been holding the spotlight, 

fl Sgt. D. J. Palesky, coach of the! 

rifle team has been quietly shaping 

ten fourth classmen into what 

"tcould be one of the finest varsity | 

teams in VMI history by the time 

next Fall rolls around. 

j 

As the fourth class received its i 

Introduction to the U. S. Armyj 

Trainfire Method on the 1000 inch 

range ,one of the most interest e.l j 

spectators was Sgt. Palesky. From 

observations made on the range a^ 

number of rats were invited to the 

normal team tryouts. ! 

With a very respectable 270 

points set as the qualification 

mark, tryouts began. Then it became 

necessary to raise the mark 

to 275, since it proved almost impossible 

to narrow the field down 

sufficiently. Finally, ten rats were 

selected. 

Now, after only eight weeks of 

practice, the Rat Rifle Team is 

firing a 1420. and the team average 

is only 5 points behind this 

year's varsity. 

Sgt. Palesky. a one-time member 

of the Army High-powered 

rifle team, came to VMI from 

Hawaii with some positive ideas 

on how to mold a championship 

rifle team. 

Rifle marksmanship" he said, 

"is highly dependent upon excellent 

physical conditioning. It takes 

superior muscle tone to hold a 

good, steady firing position because 

almost every position is 

basically unnatural for the human 

body to assume." With this in 

mind, he has instituted a regime of 

! physical training for evei-y member 

of the team. Beginning with 

holding exercises such as pushups, 

he plans to graduate the 

members to dynamic - tension exercises, 

which are more on the 

order of isometrics, and can be 

performed even while the rifleman 

sits studying in his room. 

The Varsity team shot a 1412 

total 'against the University of 

Richmond last week, the same 

score they shot at the Southern 

Conference meet at the end of last 

season. Sgt. Palesky feels that superior 

muscle tone is responsible 

for the high total so early in the 

season. 

But. back to the rats—armed 

with both talent and desire, these 

10 men hold the real key to the 

future of VMI riflemanship. Firing 

in a number of meets this 

year, including encounters with 

area prep schools and The West 

Point Plebes, they should gain the 

experience that will mold them into 

next year's champs. As Sgt. 

Palesky said, "we are not aiming 

for the Southern Conference 

Championship for next year. We 

could put up a national championship 

team." 

Uniforms 

Of Grid 

Cause 

Deaths 

Thirteen deaths in high school 

and college football since 1959 have 

been attributed to heatstroke and 

all of them could have been prevented, 

according to the November 

5th issue of Sports Illustrated. 

The culprit, says the article, is the 

football uniform. Well-designed to 

protect the players from outside 

violence, it can be disastrous heat 

accumulator. 

The essential research' into the 

subject has been conducted at 

Ohio State University. Dr. William 

F. Ashe, one of the world's foremost 

authorities on heat stress and 

participating doctor in the study 

at OSU, is quoted as saying: "Under 

certain conditions, the uniform 

can be a death trap." 

Heat exhaustion and heat stroke, 

to which football players are par 

ticularly susceptible and which 

have led to such fatal results in 

the sport, can be brought on when 

sweat is prevenaed from evaporat 

Ing properly: instead of cooling 

as it should, the body temperature 

rises rapidly. When it reaches 106 

degrees, the central nervous system 

can not cope with the load. 

The hazards of heat stress. 

Sports Illustrated reports, can be 

reduced in other ways. OSU experience 

has shown that: 

Players should be "acclimatized" 

to the heat load to bom; • 3-6 

program, for 90 per cent protection 

is outlined. 

Players should remove their helmets 

in lulls during practice or 

timeouts. 

Players should be allowed to 

drink water freely while working 

out and playing, provided they 

continue to take salt along 

it. 

with 

Practice and game sessions 

should be adapted to weather conditions. 

There are various recommendations 

here, but "when the 

temperature turns between 90 degrees 

and 100 degrees and the humidity 

is at 70 per cent, practice 

should be postponed or sharply 

curtailed." " - 

FACULTY SERVICE AT VMI — In the recent service awards presentations at 

Virginia Military Institute, 15 faculty members were honored for a total of 2^0 

years' service to the Institute. Top faculty service recognition went to Col. Stanton 

F. Blain (center), professor of Spanish, shown receiving a 40 year service pin from 

VMI superintendent Major General George R. E. Shell. Others who were present 

for awards are, left to right. Maj. Daniel C. Brittigan. five years; Lt. Col. Oscar 

W. Gupton, 10 years; Maj. Leon D. Carr, five years; C«i. Herbert Nash Dillard, 

25 years; Brinton P. Thompson, five years; Col. Blain, General Shell; Lt. Col. John 

H. Reeves, 10 years; Col. Leslie German:. 35 years; Lt. Col. Norman M. Rehg, 1» 

years, and Capt. Stacy C. Harris, 5 years.

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