Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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The Class of ■A

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Four years. Four long, short years. Time to write our final class history, and yet, it is not a final history at all. It is the end of a cadetship, but it is far from being the end of VMI ' s class of 1 980. We all look forward to a new beginning, a start towards big- ger challenges, more responsibility, the fulfillment of an important role in life. With this in mind, I guess we deserve to sit back for a minute and reflect on the past four years. We all came here different and we will all leave here different, as individuals. But yet, you can ' t spend four years at the I and not change in some way. We ' ve developed friendships and shared experi- ences that are invaluable. We have walked our rat line, strove through our third class year and earned our ring. This year, we have dared to try some new ideas. We have heard praise, and criticism. But despite all, we have attempted to leave our mark on VMI a positive one — to leave VMI a better place than when we entered it. We leave hopeful that the classes to follow will pick up our initiative, learn from our successes and failures, and strive to always create a better VMI. We leave having done our best to mold the class of ' 83 into a strong class ready to take on the coming challenge that is VMI. Many that started with us are no longer here — reflecting on this we realize that time has passed, changes have taken place. We have met the VMI challenge and experienced only what another VMI man, and indeed only another brother rat, could ever understand. It ' s time to move on to a new beginning now. We have every right to believe that we will stand proud in this world as VMI men who have come before us. I wish all the best to VMI ' s best. Edwin L. Baker III Historian Walter B. Wood I President Hugh M. Fain III Vice President

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Reflections of Our First Class Year