Adrian College - Mound Yearbook (Adrian, MI)

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“and so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands” Eulogy to the late President, John F. Kennedy, by Senator Michael J. Mansfield, on Sunday, November 24, 1963, in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol There was a sound of laughter; in a moment, it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands. There was a wit in a man neither young nor old, but a wit full of an old man’s wisdom and of a child’s wisdom, and then, in a moment it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands. There was a man marked with the scars of his love of country, a body active with the surge of a life far, far from spent and, in a moment it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands. There was a father with a little boy, a little girl and a joy of each in the other. In a moment it was no more, and so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands. There was a husband who asked much and gave much, and out of the giving and the asking wove with a woman what could not be broken in life, and in a moment it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands, and kissed him and closed the lid of a coffin. A piece of each of us died at that moment. Yet, in death he gave of himself to us. He gave us of a good heart from which the laughter came. He gave us of a profound wit, from which a great leadership emerged. He gave us of a kindness and a strength fused into a human courage to seek peace without fear. He gave us of his love that we, too, in tum, might give. He gave that we might give of our- selves, that we might give to one another until there would be no room, no room at all, for the bigotry, the hatred, prejudice and the arrogance which con- verged in that moment of horror to strike him down. In leaving us—these gifts, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States, leaves with us. Will we take them, Mr. President? Will we have, now, the sense and the responsibility and the courage to take them? I pray to God that we shall and under God we will.

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“For which we stand...” Through the years America has stood for freedom and justice for all. November 22, 1963 will stand foremost in our minds throughout this generation and generations to come as the day President John F. Kennedy was felled by an assassin’s bullet. He stood as an example for all the world to follow. Following his death, this country stood in a state of shock. Even Washington monument seemed a little smaller towering as a symbol of our first president. As the slain president’s body lay at state in the capital rotunda, selected members of the armed services stood their death watch, while people from all walks of life stood with their heads bowed, waiting to pay their final respects. Even as the cassion rolled along the road to Arlington, the streets were lined with people who stood silent with only the sound of muffled drums breaking that silence. Students from Adrian felt it their patriotic duty to share this time of grief and joined the thousands of other Americans in Washington, while back in Adrian the campus stood idle and the students stood in reverence throughout the period of mourning. President Dawson led a special memorial service and classes were cancelled as the college paid its final tribute to the late President. |) Methodist Church. Adrian College is ff | affilisted with this great church body. @ May he rest in peace.