Found this at my Mom's house in a cabinet and had it scanned at the local FedEx Office.  It is my Dad's Diploma from VPI dated March 1943. As you can see, his degree was a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics.  It also appears that the name & degree were manually written on the diploma. 

The original graduation date for this class was the usual May.  However, because the cadets were needed in World War II, the graduation was moved up to March.  And then it was cancelled entirely so that the graduates could join the service. At least that's what I've been told.

According to an online history of Virginia Tech, there were 523 bachelor degrees conveyed that year, a number that dropped to 97 in 1946 before rising again in 1947. In recent years, the number of degrees conveyed is about 10 times that number.  Also, when Dad was there, Burruss was a person, not a building--although I think Burruss Hall existed it just hadn't been named that yet.