Developments at Virginia Tech
The official Tumblr of Virginia Tech's Office of University Development, located at the Gateway Center on the corner of University City Blvd., and Prices Fork Rd., in Blacksburg, Va.
This website is maintained by the Development Communications team headed by Albert Raboteau, Gary Cope, and Chuck George.
Cadets from Virginia Tech’s Corps demonstrate their obstacle course for alumni as part of VTCC’s homecoming weekend. I was out there before the seniors arrived and saw some freshmen cadets practicing and trust me when I say it is much harder than it looks. And it looks hard.
We’ll have more on this story next week, so stay tuned. Until then, have a great weekend and GO HOKIES!
Working on a video highlighting Virginia Tech’s Corps of Cadets and its Emerging Leader Scholars.
Roanoke Times: Tech Corps of Cadets sees enrollment surge
The Roanoke Times published an article on the front page of Tuesday’s (Sept. 6, 2011) paper about the rise of enrollment for Virginia Tech’s Corps of Cadets. This year’s freshman class of 383 cadets is the largest since 1969 and nearly equals the corps’ entire enrollment of 1992, which was about 400.
Read the article on Roanoke.com.
Freshman members of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets will visit the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., on Sept. 10, thanks to the generous support of an alumnus who, unfortunately, passed away not long ago. Along with his wife, Peggy, Ray Reed ‘57 was also a generous donor to our project to restore Lane Hall and return it to the corps.
Today is the U.S. Army’s 236th birthday! We’re proud that, for more than half the Army’s existence, the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets has helped aspiring soldiers develop strong leadership skills.
(Photo courtesy of www.armyrotc.vt.edu)
Today marks the 67th anniversary of D-Day. On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched the largest amphibious assault in history when they stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, which was occupied by German forces. The beaches were especially well fortified as the Germans had ample time to prepare for the assault.
Twenty Virginia Tech alumni died around the beaches of Normandy in World War II. The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets has a service project to raise money to help keep the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., open, and first-year cadets make an annual trip to the memorial. Alumni donations have helped cover the cost of that journey, along with many other special activities within the Corps of Cadets.
Cadets Pip Cox and John Hitt, both members of the Class of 1934, sit on a hill overlooking Blacksburg’s Main Street. This is the present day intersection with College Avenue. Photo from the university’s archives.
Source: The official Virginia Tech Facebook page
The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets recently held its 6th Annual Squad Tactical Challenge. The challenge’s purpose is to provide stressful situations allowing cadets to develop their leadership in two ways:
- Cadets must train their subordinates over time and plan for the events to be successful.
- Cadets must successfully demonstrate situational leadership during the course of the event.
In recent years, the number of young men and women entering the corps has grown. More than 850 cadets began the 2010-11 school year. A good percentage of them received Emerging Leader Scholarships — thanks to the many generous donors who support that initiative.
The ELS program has been a major fundraising priority for the corps for several years because scholarships are a powerful recruiting tool, corps officials say. The number of cadets they have been able to offer ELS support to has increased by 25 percent since 2003 — a likely factor in the growth of the corps overall.
