Lives Guided by Honor: How VMI Shaped the Class of 1968

"...reveals the secret ingredients to why strong traditions at VMI have remained for almost two hundred years and the influence society has had on the school to change with the times." -Destiny Jennifer Ringgold, author of Choosing the Harder Right: West Point's 1976 Cheating Scandal

"Simpson has drawn back the veil to reveal this legendary and mysterious Southern institution." -James Gallager, MSc., geologist

Since 1839, the Virginia Military Institute has sought to produce graduates of honor and integrity, citizen-soldiers, and leaders. Graduates have had extraordinary success in landing jobs throughout the decades, becoming military officers or gaining acceptance to graduate schools.

After wondering for decades why her husband chose to attend a military college, Mayling Simpson began a quest for answers. Lives Guided by Honor reveals the secret formula of VMI's success by focusing on VMI's Class of 1968. Simpson examines the history of VMI through an anthropologist's lens, along with the architecture and art of the post (campus) and the Institute's changes through time, to explain how VMI uniquely influences and forms its students. Lives Guided by Honor is for historians, history buffs, alumni of military colleges, educators, and prospective students.

Author: Mayling Elizabeth Simpson
Publisher: Koehler Books
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9798888242124

About the Author
Simpson, Mayling Elizabeth: - Mayling Simpson is a cultural anthropologist who has conducted original research in Ireland, Iran, the Philippines, and Serbia on public health issues and served as a senior technical officer to the World Health Organization. Her previous published works include A Paper Life: Belgrade's Roma in the Underworld of Waste Scavenging and Recycling; Ecological Sanitation; and Mrs. Nickle Pickle, winner of an Aspen Times short story contest. She earned her PhD in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her BA in biology from Longwood University in Farmville, Va.

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