Atlanta VMI Happenings
"A Salute to the Colonel"
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR AND GENERAL HAP ARNOLDS STAFF OFFICER, WW II
COLONEL JOHN (JACK) MILLS FAIN'32
90TH BIRTHDAY JUNE 18, 2000 OLDEST ALUMNI IN ATLANTA .NUMBER 109 ON THE CHAPTER EMAIL LIST' (in blue) GEORGE B. HIGHTOWER'33, CHARLES HAL DAYHUFF, III '59
DAYHUFF SHOWING SPECIAL ENVELOPE WHICH CONTAINED HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS IDENTIFYING FAIN AS A "RAT" AT VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE 1928
DAYHUFF SHOWING FAIN HIS OFFICIAL MATRICULATION SHEET WHERE FAIN SIGNED IN IN SEPTEMBER 24,1928 AND BECAME A MEMBER OF THE "RAT CLASS". ORDERS ASSIGNING HIM TO COMPANY A AND A MEMBER OF DAYHUFF, JR '31 SQUAD, A COMPANY OFFICERS, A PICTURE OF THE COMMANDANT WHO FAIN VISITED MANY TIMES DUE TO HIS DEMERITS, a picture of his RAT CLASS, and History of his Rat Class as shown in the BOMB of 1928.
DAYHUFF EXPLAINING THAT ALL OF THE HAPPENINGS OF FAIN AT THE INSTITUTE WHICH THEY ALL LOVE ARE RECORDED IN HISTORY AND NOW HE HAS THEM FOR HIS MEMORIES OF VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE. FAIN DID NON BELIEVE THAT SUCH DOCUMENTS EXISTED UNTIL THIS EVENING.
ALL THREE BROTHER RATS OF THE CORPS SHOWING "THE REST OF THE STORY" OF A GREAT GENTLEMAN AND TRUE FRIEND COL JOHN "JACK" FAIN '32.
FAIN TOLD DAYHUFF ON OCTOBER 3, 1995 FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF COLONEL CHARLES HAL DAYHUFF 'JR '31 THAT "YOU CANNOT BE AN ORPHAN AND SO NOW YOU ARE GOING TO BE MY ADOPTED SON"
WE ARE SO HAPPY TO BE PART OF THIS HONOR CEREMONY
GEORGE HIGHTOWER '33 KNOWING THAT HE WILL BE NEXT IN MARCH 2001
Credit for the "Archive information"
courtesy
Diane Jacobs, Archivist VMI"
Copyright 1999 Charles Hal Dayhuff, III (Email)
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Last Updated
12/13/00
12:01 p.m.