Word: caissons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line of 200 cars followed the hearse along crowd-lined avenues, past embassies with flags flying at half-staff. Crossing the Potomac into Virginia, the procession stopped at the cemetery gate, where an iron-tired Army caisson with six grey horses waited to carry to the grave the body of the statesman, sometime (1917-18) major, U.S. Army. With an Army-Navy-Air Force color-guard marching ahead, and the flag of the U.S. Secretary of State flying bravely behind, the caisson rolled slowly up the hill to the grave site on a grassy knoll near a yellowwood tree...
...grown sons, a married daughter-sat the President of the U.S., his face set in sadness, and next to him his wife. As the Army band played Hark, Hark, My Soul, servicemen from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard lifted the coffin from the caisson and carried it to the grave. The Rev. Roswell P. Barnes, U.S. secretary of the World Council of Churches, read the burial service: "I am the resurrection and the life . . . Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ..." Nineteen times, saluting cannon fire boomed and echoed. Then three sharp rifle...
Lowell: Freshman Soccer; Tennis; Hockey; Varsity Tennis; Undergraduate Athletic Council; Cheerleader; Caisson Club, Executive Committee; Delphic Club, President...
WALTER J. STAHURA, Winthrop; Football; Baseball; Varsity Club; ROTC; Pi Eta Club; Owl Club; Caisson Club...
...TULENKO, Winthrop; House Committee; Engineering Society; Caisson Club; Lacrosse Team; Hasty Pudding; Pi Eta Club...