VMI Board, Superintendent ‘Have Fostered Division’

April 7, 2025 Editor, The News-Gazette: As a classmate of Tom Watjen, former president of the VMI board of visitors (BOV), I read with interest his statement titled, “A Perspective on Virginia Military Institute,” appearing in your newspaper. Although Tom and I share the VMI experience in that we are members of the class of 1976, are both grateful for those four years at VMI, and seek the best for our alma mater and the corps of cadets, we have a different perspective as to how that is achieved.