CHARACTER MAKES THE MAN - THE STORY OF THE KENTUCKY MILITARY INSTITUTE: 1845-1975 ON DVD

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Roger Cole ’58, Ken Harper ’48, and Bill Vermillion ’63 are pleased to announce that the Kentucky Military Institute Legacy Documentary DVD is now available. Click on Trailer 1 above for a short KMI DVD trailer introduction or “Click below to purchase your DVD.

Many of you may have seen Character Makes the Man – The Story of the Kentucky Military Institute: 1845 1971 at the premiere showing at the Palace Theatre in Louisville or the Venice Theatre in Venice. Others may have seen one of the showings on Public Television stations in Kentucky, Florida, or neighboring states. Now you have an opportunity to purchase a personal copy of the Character Makes the Man Legacy Documentary while at the same time enhance the Legacy of KMI. The KMI Documentary DVD will always be there when your thoughts drift back to the days of your youth or your days at the Kentucky Military Institute.

DVD sales proceeds will benefit the Kentucky Military Institute Memorial Endowment which is domiciled at the Gulf Coast Community Foundation in Venice, Florida. Annual grants from the Kentucky Military Institute Memorial Endowment will benefit the Venice Museum and Archives for their management of the Kentucky Military Institute collection and display of KMI memorabilia and for the maintenance and expansion of the KMI Archives and Legacy.

"KMI Special Pictures and Videos"

"Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus" (Last Performance)

• John Morgan, Class of 1965.   Contact information update!  (Registration required!)

• LIST OF THOSE WHO HAVE PAID FOR THE REUNION.
  

• VENICE AREA HISTORICL SOCIETY PRESENTS: "KENTUCKY MILITARY INSTITUTE: 126 YEARS OF ITS HISTORY
  LARRY HUMES, KMI 1965 GRADUATE
  

• Jerry Zegart, Class of 1970x.  Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
  

• Updated the master alumni database.     (Registration required!)

• Hershell B. Murray, Class of 1955.   OBIT   (Registration required!)

• Tim Kraft, Class of 1959.    OBIT   (Registration required!)

• John "Tom" Benson" Marshall, Class of 1966.    OBIT    (Registration required!)

• Tom Mansfield, Class of 1962.    Contact information update!  (Registration required!)

• Penn Broecker, Class of 1962.    OBIT.   (Registration required!)

• Ned Wilson, Class of 1967.    Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• 1861 Pre War KMI uniform - "Reconstruction"

• Dale Stahl, Class of 1955.   OBIT     (Registration required!)
  
• Rugeley Devan, Class of 1959.     OBIT   (Registration required!)

• Richard CUMMINS, Class of 1968x    Contact information update!  (Registration required!)

• Jim Pruden, Class of 1944.  ‘FIRST LADY OF STAGE’ JO PRUDEN DIES. 
  

• George Ellerbrook, Class of 1957.       OBIT.       (Registration required!)

• John Smarr, Class of 1964x.           Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• Tom Hanshaw, Class of 1956.    OBIT   (Registration required!)
• U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Jack Henry Owen, Class of 1936.   (posthumous Prisoner of War Medal awarded)
  

• Cuthbert Thompson, Class of 1950.    OBIT    (Registration required!)

• Bill Rardin, Class of 1951.   OBIT   (Registration required!)

• Bud Parkhill, Class of 1960.   Contact information update!  (Registration required!)

• Richard Franks, Class of 1946.     OBIT   (Registration required!)

• Warren Hemphill, Class of 1951.    OBIT   (Registration required!)
• Fred Gutwein, Class of 1960.     Contact information update!  (Registration required!)

• Steve Reiser, Class of 1960.     Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• Hal Cockerham, Class of 1957.     OBIT   (Registration required!)

• Oran Renfore, Class of 1952.     OBIT      (Registration required!)
  
• Updated the master alumni database.     (Registration required!)

• Larry Young, Class of 1960.       Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• Ned Bogie, Class of 1960.          Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• Herb Moore, Class of 1948.        Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• Ben Wells, Class of 1943.    OBIT             (Registration required!)   

• Ben Altman,  Class of 1970.    Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• John Pharr, Class of 1965.      Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• Dennis Stark, Class of 1965    Contact information update!  (Registration required!)

• Tom LAMBRECHT, Class of 1967.    Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• Updated the Class of 1950 webpage.      (Registration required!) 
  

• John Proffitt, Class of 1950.   OBIT       (Registration required!)  

• Richard Potts, Class of 1963.   Contact information update!  (Registration required!)

• James Jarrell, Class of 1951  Obit / Story                           (Registration required!)
  James Jarrell was cadet Major of the class of 1951.
  He and wife died in the now famous 1970 Marshall Univ plane crash.
  

• Roger Schuler, Class of 1966.      OBIT      (Registration required!)

• Bill Zopff, Class of 1954.   OBIT     (Registration required!)
• Floyd HEBERT, Class of 1964.    Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
  

• Gerry Brewster, Class of 1963.    OBIT    (Registration required!)

• Bob Dinsmore, Class of 1973.   OBIT    (Registration required!)

• Gary Hale, Class of 1952.   OBIT    (Registration required!)
  

• Edwin Berkowitz, Class of 1951.   OBIT    (Registration required!)
• Jim Earnshaw, Class of 1963.   OBIT         (Registration required!)

• Bob Marryman, Class of 1952.   OBIT     (Registration required!)
• George Adams, Class of 1952.   OBIT     (Registration required!)

• Roger Cole, Class of 1958.    Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• Robert Robertson, Class of 1964x.    Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• Updated the master alumni database.     (Registration required!)
• Added new Saber yearbook covers to the Saber page.
  

• Jim "Hoss" Payton, Class of 1962.       Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• Vinny Giufre, Class of 1961.  OBIT         ((Registration required!)

• Humphrey Marshall, Class of 1968.   OBIT       (Registration required!)
  A memorial service to honor Humphrey's life will be held on September 26, 2023, at 5:30 p.m. EDT at Central Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
  

• Herb Steely, Class of 1956.          OBIT     (Registration required! )
  
• Gary Oster, Class of 1956.         OBIT   (Registration required! )
  

• Dart Andrews, Class of 1956.   OBIT           (Registration required! )

• Tom Buckner, Class of 1955.   OBIT         (Registration required! 
  
• Mike DeVan, Class of 1963.        Contact information update!  (Registration required!)

• Bill Baldwin & Larry Humes, Class of 61 & 65      (Registration required!)
• Max McDade, Class of 1956.   OBIT       (Registration required!)

• Jerry Brumm, Class of 1963       OBIT  (Registration required!)
  

• Pete Tucker, Class of 1963.          OBIT           (Registration required!)  
  
• Bob Murray, Class of 1960               OBIT            (Registration required!)  
• Bob Sutherland, Class of 1963.    OBIT         (Registration required!)   

• Eddie Koch, Class of 1963.      OBIT            (Registration required!)   
  
• Ed Sanders, Class of 1960.         OBIT            (Registration required!)   

• Richard Parker, Class of 1960.    OBIT      (Registration required!)    

• Chrispy Watson. Class of 1967.    OBIT    (Registration required!)

• Tom Dowd, Class of 1963.    OBIT.    (Registration required!)

• Bill Beam, Class of 1954.    OBIT  (Registration required!)
• Albert Berentsen, Class of 1954.   OBIT   (Registration required!)
• John Wilkinson, Class of 1963.    Contact information update!      (Registration required!)
• Berry Nichols, Class of 1963.    Contact information update!          (Registration required!)
• Lloyd McMillan, Class of 1963.    Contact information update!        (Registration required!)

• Don Sanders, Class of 1962.   OBIT         (Registration required!)

• Ellsworth Duff, Class of 1962.    OBIT    (Registration required!)

• Ralph Cromis, Class of 1962.    OBIT   
• Kirk Giloth, Class of 1962.    OBIT    (Registration required!)

• Bob Arheit, Class of 1962   OBIT   (Registration required!)
• Van Woodrow, Class of 1962.   OBIT  (Registration required!)
• Updated the master alumni database.     (Registration required!)

• Jim Beaird, Class of 1953.   OBIT    (Registration required!)

• Updated the Class of 1947 webpage.   (Registration required!)
• Jack King, Class of 1947 (Post Grad)    OBIT    (Registration required!)

• Updated the Class of 1946 webpage.   (Registration required!)

• Bob Hess, Class of 1959.   Contact information update!  (Registration required!)

• Boyd Brown, Class of 1946.   OBIT.   (Registration required!)

• Ray Lippert, Class of 1967.    Contact information update!  (Registration required!)

• Dave Disher, Class of 1963x.   Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• Bill Crew, Class of 1962.     Contact information update!  (Registration required!)

• Updated the Class of 1969 webpage.   (Registration required!)
• Updated the Class of 1961 webpage.   (Registration required!)

• Updated the Class of 1945.    (Registration required!)

• Corrected the Class of 1960 Roster.     (Registration required!

• Updated the Class of 1960 webpage.   (Registration required!)
• Updated the Class of 1962 webpage.   (Registration required!)

• Updated the Class of 1965 webpage.   (Registration required!)
• Updated the Class of 1964 webpage.   (Registration required!)
• Updated the Class of 1966 webpage.   (Registration required!)
• Updated the Class of 1967 webpage.   (Registration required!)
• Updated the Class of 1968 webpage.   (Registration required!)

• Murrel Goldburg, Class of 1959x.   Contact information update!  (Registration required!)
• David Levinson, Class of 1967.     Contact information update!  (Registration required!)

• Miles Pope, Class of 1958.   OBIT     (Registration required!)
• Updated the master alumni database.     (Registration required!)

• Updated the Class of 1973 Special Interest webpage.    (Registration required!)

• Ron Shouse, Class of 1972.   OBIT     ((Registration required!)

• Ralph Jenkins, Class of 1961.   OBIT   ((Registration required!)

• New Class of 1971 webpage with cadet pictures and new special interest webpage.

• Dick Truog, Class of 1970, (Sargent Major)  OBIT  ((Registration required!)
• New Class of 1970 webpage with cadet pictures and new Bio webpage.
  

• Mike Brady, Class of 1963.    OBIT    ((Registration required!)
• Kenny Fagley, Class of 1963.    OBIT    ((Registration required!)

• Printing pictures from scanned Saber yearbooks.    (INFO)
• Skip  Macauley, Class of 1969.   OBIT   
  

• Skip Jolly, Class of 1964.   OBIT    ((Registration required!)

• 90 years ago, KMI changed Venice dramatically.pdf
  
• "Head Waiter" by Terry Chisholm '63  in KMI Memories.   ((Registration required!)
• Doug Martin,Class of 1957.   OBIT   ((Registration required!)

• Added new memory to the KMI Football page.     ((Registration required!)