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John Marsh receives the New Market Medal

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The graduation speaker was Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

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Video of speech about Civil Rights activist Jonathan Daniels by Ruby Sales, given in Lexington, Virginia at the Robert E. Lee Episcopal Church in March 2006. Daniels saved Sale's life in 1965.

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Ambassador Andrew Young receives the second Jonathan M. Daniels '61 Humanitarian Award at VMI on March 23, 2006

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Events of the weekend honoring football coach John McKenna. Includes members of his winning teams who returned to VMI for the event; McKenna and others speaking during celebratory dinner

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Cadets whose articles were published in volume 1 of New Horizons talk about their research

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Ceremony honoring Daniels. Speakers include Superintendent Josiah Bunting III; E. Cabell Brand, who presents a painting and book to the Promaji Club; and the Dean of the Canterbury Cathedral the Very Reverend John A. Simpson.

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30th Commandant, U. S. Marine Corps

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Official breakout video for Class of 2004. Includes significant events in the months prior to Breakout, including matriculation, new cadet oath at New Market and speech by John O. Marsh Jr., football game. Breakout scenes follow, including marches and other activities and climb up muddy hill (a practice since discontinued). Video culminates with ceremony in Barracks courtyard.

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This was the first VMI commencement exercise to include female graduates. The first group of women to matriculate in 1997 included a few transfer students who were able to graduate after two years because of advanced academic standing at enrollment.

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On the occasion of the VMI vs. Liberty football game

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Various speeches to cadets and other VMI audiences from 19-200x. 2 disks.

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Local PBS television special marking the 21st anniversary of the admission of the first black cadets at VMI. Also includes excerpts from a panel discussion held at VMI.

See separate dvd for full recording of full panel discussion.

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Events from Black History Month celebration, including Jonathan Daniels ceremony and panel discussion about Daniels. 2 discs

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Includes film of ROTC cavalry drill and horsemanship practice on Parade Ground, including jumping; Barracks scenes; cadet orchestra; other scenes from cadet life ca. 1939

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Orientation and convocations held during the Spring of 1997 to prepare the Corps for the beginning of coeducation.

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Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale, where he has taught since 1982.

30 items approximately 30 discs in DVD storage container separate from numerical DVD boxes

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This collection contains marketing commercials produced for local television broadcasts and off air news story for VMI events.

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ABC network television show Good Morning America show.! Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson broadcast live from Crozet Hall during breakfast on Founders Day, November 11, 2002.

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News conference held at VMI, introducing General Peay as VMI's 14th Superintendent.

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News videos produced by the VMI Office of Communication and Marketing during the period 2012-2014. Topics: Inaugural Parade, Virginia Governor McAuliffe; Air Force ROTC flight incentive final; Battle of New Market 150th anniversary; soaring; reveille and Retreat; Army ROTC FTX (10-12-2012); Corps Physical Training Building groundbreaking; Founders Day, 2013; Heritage Exhibit VMI Museum; Presidential Inaugural Parades History; NCAA Athletes Rats (Soccer and football) drill.

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Color film footage depicting cadet life in 1941. Includes scenes of ROTC cavalry unit, horses, and stables; parades; football games, including Thanksgiving game against Virginia Tech; social life (cadets with their dates), and buildings.

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Sweat party, Fall 1987

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Address to the Friends of Preston Library by VMI alumnus Michael A. Burke, Class of 1973, on the origin of VMI slang. This speech was based on research the Burke did for graduate coursework in linguistics.

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Lt. Terry Plunk was killed in action during Operation Desert Storm.

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Highlights of Coach John McKenna. Includes reflections by McKenna, his family, and Gens. Bunting and Peay; footage from games.

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Includes New Market battle reenactment, ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Willard Scott interview, Hee Haw TV program salute.

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VMI Bugler Wilbur Swihart, known as "Bill the Bugler". He was the subject of a CBS news "On the Road with Charles Kuralt" story.

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Lt. Terry Plunk was killed in action during Operation Desert Storm.

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Includes New Market Day ceremony, parade, and bible presentation

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In December 1994 Preston Library collections and staff moved out the building while it was being renovated. The project was completed in the Spring of 1996. During this time the bulk of the books were stored in a local unoccupied building (known as "the Roses building" after a department store that once occupied it); other storage locations were Cocke Hall, Smith Hall, and misc. other local locations. Library reference and circulation services were provided out of old Lejeune Hall (which was torn down in 2006). Other staff occupied offices in Nichols, Smith Hall, and Crozet Hall.

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Good Morning America television program presents interview with VMI Cadet Jon R. Milner regarding ROTC

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General James Jones, Commandant of the Marine Corps, dedicates display in VMI Museum's Hall of Valor.

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Inclues: 2014 Virginia gubernatorial inaugural parade; Air Force ROTC flight incentive; 150th anniversary of Battle of New Market; soaring; reveille and retreat; Army ROTC FTX Oct. 2012; Corps Physical Training Facility groundbreaking. May 2014; Founders Day 2013; Heritage Exhibit at Museum; Ppresidential inaugural parades history; NCAA soccer and football Rats drill

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Video created to coincide with the dedication of Third Barracks, November 2008. It includes use of historical images from the VMI Archives along with film footage from 2008. Keith Gibson, VMI Museum director, provides some commentary.

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Unveiling of the mMemorial marker dedicated to Civil Rights movement martyr Jonathan Daniels, VMI Class of 1961, in Hayneville Alabama. The monument was sponsored by VMI.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared at VMI on February 1, 2017. This event was co-sponsored by the Washington and Lee University School of Law. The format was an interview conducted by two of her biographers. The event took place in Cameron Hall.

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Mark Alexander Milley is a United States Army officer. A four-star general, he is the 39th Chief of Staff of the Army.