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Robert E. Lee graduates who have died in military service to the country will be honored on Tuesday in a ceremony that will also mark the 40th anniversary of the campus memorial.

Representatives of the Class of 1968 who were instrumental in the creation of the memorial in the Lee courtyard are among those set to attend.

The ceremony is set for 10:45 a.m.

The memorial holds the names of eight who have died: William David Bothwell, Gary Vaughn Clark, Tony Wayne Collier, Charles Frederick William Fritts and Harry Diwain Spier, all U.S. Army; and Charles T. Courson, Doyce Gene Miller and Lawrence Milton Moore, all Marines.

Their names, which are engraved in the white marble stone, will be read and their sacrifices will be remembered with the posting of colors, the laying of a wreath and a moment of silence, said information from the school district.

Brian Ballard, who was the student council president in 1968; and Bill Bowers, a 1968 Lee graduate and a retired Lt. Col. of the U.S. Marines, will give the memorial address.

Mallory Cook Student Senate president, will give the history of the memorial.

A project to pay tribute to Lee students who had died in service was launched in 1966 by David Muntz, the Student Senate president. The following year the Student Senate, using a $3,000 donation, moved forward with construction.

In 1968, Ballard helped conduct the first memorial service at the new monument. At the time, four Lee graduates had died in the military. Since then, four others have been added to the list.