| Summary: | The 1953-1958 scrapbook contains approximately 458 photographs and 249 clippings. Events and headlines included in this scrapbook are visits from GEN H. W. Johnson, GEN Garvin, MG T. C. Rogers; Pershing Rifles in parade; various parades on the Quad; Military Ball (1953-58); President’s Day; Crimson White clipping from 1958 describes “successful Military Ball and great Glenn Miller Orchestra”; Governor’s Day; photos of cadets with initials and last names (1955-57); brief profiles of sponsors from The Birmingham News and The Crimson White; newspaper coverage of Rifle Team, some AF ROTC; clipping of Margaret Inez Bishop, nursing student and first Army nurse from Alabama accepted in Women’s Army Corps, Army Nurse Corps; clippings from The Capstone Cadet (1955); 11 Nov 1954 Veterans Day Parade; Bama Festival (1954-55), includes images of vintage Army communications equipment and display of ROTC recruitment posters; Rifle Team (1954-55), including images of weapons used at firing range; full newspaper page coverage of 1955 Governor’s Day (1954-55); Governor’s Day where Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama Pelham J. Merrill (alumnus, Alabama Hall of Fame inductee), served as Governor Gordon Persons’ representative; and program from 1957 Military Ball featuring Tony Pastor.The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries.
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