Orange (colour) political and social movements. In the United States Army, orange has traditionally been associated with the dragoons, the mounted infantry units which eventually became the US Cavalry. The 1st Cavalry Regiment was founded in 1833 as the United States Dragoons. The modern coat of arms of the 1st Cavalry features the colour orange and orange-yellow shade called dragoon yellow, the colours of the early US dragoon regiments. The US Signal Corps, founded at the beginning of the American Civil War, adopted orange and white as its official colours in 1872. Orange was adopted because it was the colour of a
Virgil Blossom School. Blossom wrote about his experiences in Little Rock in a memoir, "It Has Happened Here" (1959). Blossom married Clarence Thomas Tribble on August 2, 1934. The couple had two children, Bettie Sue (born 1938), and Gail (born 1940). While in Fayetteville, Blossom was a member of the Lion's Club, Freemasons, Consistory, Knights Templar, and the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce. Virgil Blossom Virgil T. Blossom (born October 31, 1906 – 1965) was an American educator. Blossom is best known for his time in Little Rock, Arkansas as Superintendent of Schools (1953–1958) during the Little Rock Crisis. In 1955, after the