Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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foreword Wk E the members of the Class of 1951 present the 67th edition of the Bomb. First published in 1885, this is the pioneer of Southern collegiate year- books. We feel certain that this Bomb maintains the highest standards of Bomb traditions. This year we have no theme or message. Our Bomb is a pictorial record of our collective and individual cadetships, arranged with some original- ity and with due regard to the traditional features of its predecessors. Its purpose is to provide a source of pleasurable reminiscence which will in- crease in value to the members of our class as they separate to pursue their military and eventually their civilian destinies. Its contents will be more meaningful twenty years from now than at our Finals. The Bom.b brings back to old V. M. I. men the many fond memories of the cry bomb in the court- yard, followed by an ear-splitting, glass-shattering explosion. But as the black powder smoke of past years lifted, he saw the V. M. I. of old before him. We, in 1951, live in apprehension of the eflfects of an atomic bomb, whose radioactive mushroom may symbolize the obliteration of all memories. Notwithstanding t he dismal future we present to posterity this record of our transient existences as cadets . . . THE INSTITUTE THE CORPS THE CLASSES THE ACTIVITIES THE ATHLETICS

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