The Cadet. VMI Newspaper. September 27, 1963 - New Page 1 ...

Ship Named
For Former
Professor
a significant role in the opening
of diplomatic relations between Japan
and the United States and in
1860 .served as navigator on the
Japanese ship that brought the
first Japanese minister to this
country.
A guided missile escort ship
honoring the late Cdr. John Mercer
Brooke, distinguished Naval officer
and long-tinve faculty member
of the Virginia Military Institute
was launched in Seattle, Wash.
Mrs. Bruce R. Day, granddaughter
of Commander Brooke, was a
co-sponsor at the launching July
17 when the USS Brooke (Deg. 1)
slid down the ways at Seattle. Mrs.
Day, a resident of Seattle was accompanied
by Mrs. Campbell Hooton,
also a member of the Brooke
family, as co-sponsors of the newship.
Commander Brooke served at the
Institute for 33 years, joining the
faculty in 1865 after a distinguished
Naval career. He died in 1906.
Both his son. and later his grandson,
were graduated from VMI.
His grandson. Col. George M.
Brooke Jr., is a professor of history
at VMI and has spent the
past year in Japan on a Fulbright
Grant. Colonel Brooke is Mrs.
Day's brother.
During his Naval career, Commander
Brooke helped survey and
chart several ocean areas. He and
B'Tatthew Fontaine Maury, who also
became a member of the VMI
faculty, invented a deep sea sounding
apparatus which helped to
map accurately the bottom of the
ocean.
Commander Brooke also played
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This year as last the History Department
is arranging for a number
of graduate schools of law
and business to come to VMI. The
program, which is under the direction
of Major Tyson Wilson, will
allow cadets of all classes and curricula
to speak to representatives
of the various schools in order to
learn what is offered in their possible
graduate study branch.
Major Wilson hopes to bring
to VMI a wide selection of those
schools in the Institute's grographical
area. Included are planned
return visits of those schools
which sent representatives during
the 1962-63 school year. These
were the business schools of the
University of Virginia and University
of Pennsylvania (Wharton),
and the law schools of the University
of Virginia, University of
Richmond, Washington and Lee
University, William and Mary, and
George Wasiiinglon University.
There is also hope that other
law schools such as West Virginia
University, American University,
Georgetown University, Catiholic
University, Duke, and North Carolina
might also send representatives
to speak with cadets.
In the field of graduate business
schools an attempt will be
made to bring American University,
George Washington, Northwestern,
and Old Dominion (which
will start such a course in 1964),
to VMI in addition to those schools
mentionetl above.
The program which provides an
e.xcellent opportunity for cadets
planning on further education will
start on 16 October with a visit by
Dean Light of Washington and
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CoL Edwards
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of about six months in industry in
the South and returned to the
VMI faculty in 1925. He was promoted
to professor of German 10
years later.
During his faculty appointment,
he had taught English, history, and
mathematics. Later, he taught German
and tactics and returned to
the faculty in 1925 as associate
professor of German, Upon hii,
promotion to colonel and professor,
he was also designated head
of the German department.
Col. Edwards served as faculty
advisor for the VMI hop committee
for a number of years. He was a
former member of the Lexington
Rotary Club and for his accomplishments
as a gardener he was
named an honorary member of the
Blue Ridge Garden Club.
He is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. Walker MacMillan and Mrs.
Charles S. Glasgow, both of Lexington.
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Brooke Will Talk
On The Near East
Colonel George M. Brooke Jr.
Professor of History, will speak
this coming Tuesday evening in
the Preston Library auditorium regarding
his recent visits to the Far
East. The VMI International Relations
Club has asked Colonel
Brooke to give his impressions of
the educational systems in that
area of the world.
Colonel Brooke has spent the
past year in Japan, involved in
historical research under the auspices
of the Fulbright program.
The research generally involved
the history of US-Japanese relations.
Colonel Brooke centered his
studies at Keio University in
Tokyo.
In 1960, Colonel Brooke and his
wife were guests of the Japanese
government for two weeks during
a celebration in Japan on the 100th
anniversary of the voyage of the
"Karrin Maru," the Japanese escort
vessel which accompanied a
United States warship on board of
which was Colonel Brooke's grandfather,
Lt. John Mercer Brooke,
USN. Lt. Brooke was shipwrecked
APPY
in Japan in 1859 and spent the following
six months in Yokohama,
helping prepare the first Japanese
diplomatic mission for its voyage
to the United States.
Colonel Brooke has edited and
published his grandfather's journals
relating to the Japanese and
several articles on US-Japanese relations
during that period. The
journals subsequently were translated
into Japanese and published
there. One article, contrasting his
recent experiences in Japan with
those of his grandfather, was also
published both here and in Japan.
Guests at the Colonel's talk will
include interested members of the
Corps and faculty, as well as
guests from various Virginia colleges.
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