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A crowd of staff, students, faculty and children from the 91ÑÇÉ« Cooperative Daycare Centre gathered at the flagpole on Harry Arthurs Common yesterday under grey skies in a moving Remembrance Day service. Most of those on hand were led by piper Jim Raffan from Vari Hall rotunda. President and Vice-Chancellor Lorna R. Marsden welcomed everyone to the solemn ceremony and introduced Albert Tucker, president of the 91ÑÇÉ« Retirees Association, who read "The Death-Bed", a gritty poem by Siegfried Sasson. Later, Marsden with Ross McMillan, executive officer of the 91ÑÇÉ« Student Centre, and Thomas Seager, veteran, placed two wreaths of remembrance at the foot of the flagpole. Trumpeter Randall Pilson, a 91ÑÇÉ« student, played "Last Post" and "Reveille" and Tucker read "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae.