Women in Blue and Gray: More Than Two Decades of Women in the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Corps of Cadets
PDF of article from previous 125th Anniversary website
Coulter, John
Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
c.1996
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English
Smith, Netta
Virginia Tech Magazine, vol. 18, no.3 (spring 1996): 6&7
1996
More than a few good women: 25th class of females enter corps
Elswick, Jill O.
Virginia Tech Magazine, vol. 21, no.2 (winter 1999): 12-16
1999
Formal Versus Informal Power in "L" Squadron: How, Why, and a Possible Solution to the Problem
Hart, Fran
c.1976
The "L" Squadron was the first unit of women in the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets. Formed in the 1973-1974 academic year, women were in a separate squadron from male cadets until 1979.
Historical Photograph Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
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Photographs
PDf of a scrapbook featuring female Corps of Cadets members. The original item is part of the Corps of Cadets museum.
Corps of Cadets Museum, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
undated
Scrapbooks
Emily Pillsbury Davis Oral History Transcript
PDF transcript of an oral history interview with Emily Pillsbury Davis. Pillsbury was the "L" Squadron commander in the Corps of Cadets in 1975-1976. This transcript was created from files on a previous iteration of the 125th Anniversary website. The audio of this interview has not yet been digitized by Special Collections and University Archives.
Oral histories
In 1959, Patricia Ann Miller was the first woman to receive a commission at VPI. Each semester, she enrolled in Corps classes, but was denied. She eventually applied for a commission from the Army Women's Medical Specialist Corps and was commissioned during graduation after the male cadets. Later Patricia Hodges, she authored, From Home Sister to Second Lieutenant: Army Dieticians in World Wars I and II.
One of my former advisees, Patricia (Hodges) Miller, class of 1959, wanted more than anything else to be a member of the Cadet Corps. Her father, a career officer in the U.S. Army, had participated in the VPI Corps of Cadets as an undergraduate For nearly all of the 12 quarters Pat was a student here she pre-registered for the required military subjects, but each quarter she was told the Corps was not open to women. During the winter quarter of her senior year she told me she had applied for a commission in the Medical Specialists Corps and planned to be commissioned at graduation along with the graduating cadets. I was frantic when I considered what the alumni, student body, and especially the cadets, would say and do. Tradition was very strong in that period of our history. She said, "Don't worry. I've talked to the Surgeon General, and he would very much like to come to the exercises, deliver the address, and commission me along with the other graduates." I think every student in Hillcrest Dormitory stayed over to see Pat commissioned in Miles Stadium that year, in one of the hottest June days ever remembered in Blacksburg. Out into the field marched the cadets: those who would be commissioned into the U.S. Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard. Pat came on to the field alone and last. All stood in the hot sun through the entire commissioning exercise. If I remember the order of commissioning correctly, first commissioned were those for the Army, then for the Air Force, then for the Navy, then the Marine Corps, followed by the Coast Guard. By this time, the women students from Hillcrest were furious. Why, they asked, did Pat have to be the last one? My answer was: "Those men must get a head start on her; even with that she will overtake them." From "Against the Odds: Women at VPI," Founder's Day Speech by Laura Jane Harper, April 11, 1980.
Historical Photograph Collection, Special Collections and University Archives,
1959
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1942 cadet uniform for Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Original watercolor illustration created by Floyd Richard Vranian for the book Donning the Blue and Gray: A Pictorial History of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute by Harry D. Temple.
Vranian, Floyd Richard
See the finding aid for the Harry Downing Temple, Jr., Papers
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1931 cadet uniform for Virginia Polytechnic Institute
1910 cadet uniform for Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute
1908 cadet uniform for Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute
1902 cadet uniform for Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute
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1883 cadet uniform for Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College
c.1941
Photograph of Jimmie Walters Monteith, Jr.
Photograph of Julien Edmond Victor Gaujot receiving the Medal of Honor from President Taft at the White House, 1911
1911
Article, "Board States Cadet Corps Policy To Continue at VPI"
Traub, Mike
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Article, "VPI Group Will Consider Corps Ban Plea on Monday"
Article, "From the Corps...Honor of the Guard"
Ward, Stan
Article, "From the Corps... Visiting Sash and Saber"
Article, 'VPI Board of Visitors Says Corps Participation Optional"
Article, "VPI Board Has 'No Idea' Of Dropping Cadet Corps"
Article, "VPI Decides To Hire Officer To Head Corps"
Burruss, Julian A.
Essay, The History of "Skipper" Ceremonial Cannon of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets
Harper, Alton B.
Hickam, Homer Hadley
c.1997?
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Cadet Life during The First Year of the Virginia Agricultural And Mechanical College at Blacksburg, Virginia
Essay, "Cadet Life during The First Year of the Virginia Agricultural And Mechanical College at Blacksburg, Virginia, October 1, 1872 - July 10, 1873, by Harry Downing Temple, Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired, V.P.I. Class of 1934." This essay was originally published as html text on the 125th anniversary website. It was captured as a pdf in February 2020 when the exhibit was migrated to a new platform.
Temple, Harry D.
c.1997
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