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Virgil Miles Kimm, 1927 Graduate of West Point Military Academy.
June 14 1927
The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Tuesday, June 14, 1927
FORMER BLAIRSTOWN YOUTH GRADUATED FROM WEST POINT
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VIRGIL M. KIMM.
CADET Virgil M. Kimm, United States Military academy, West Point, who formerly attended Blairstown high school, Blairstown, Iowa, and Drake university, Des Moines, passed one great milestone of his life today when he was graduated from the military academy and commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He was appointed to the academy by Harry E. Hull. The graduation exercises, marking the end of West Points brilliant June week, were held in the presence of Dwight F. Davis, secretary of war, who delivered the address of the day and presented the diplomas. Kimm qualified as rifle marksman and was appointed a cadet corporal in 1925; he was a member of the class ring and seal committee in 1925-26 and the West Point chess club, of which he was secretary in 1924 and 1925,and president in 1926 and 1927; and he was a participant in the H. Y. P. W. (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and West Point) chess tournaments of 1925 and 1926.
