DATE: Sunday, August 17, 1997               TAG: 9708170089

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A1   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: BY MATT CHITTUM, LANDMARK NEWS SERVICE 

DATELINE: MONTEREY                          LENGTH:   43 lines

A NEW ERA FOR VMI WOMAN STANDS READY TO MARCH INTO RATLINE

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DON PETERSEN/Landmark News Service

Jen Jolin created a VMI desktop image for her computer. She will be

part of the school's first coed class of ``rats.''

Photos

DON PETERSEN/Landmark News Service

CBS news television producer Mark Katkov, center, and cameraman Page

McCarty interview Jen Jolin. Jolin, one of 31 women to enter as VMI

goes coed this fall, had back surgery a couple of months ago so that

a herniated disc wouldn't keep her from completing the physical

rigors the military college demands, especially of its first-year

students.

Incoming VMI freshman Jen Jolin, from rural Highland County, says,

``I can't wait to get there and get down to business.'' Jolin

figures her first year will be harder on her mother than on her.

Graphics

VP

THE FIRST 31

CHRONOLOGY OF COEDUCATION AT VMI

[For complete graphics, please see microfilm] KEYWORDS: WOMEN IN THE MILITARY VMI

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