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(Top) Family members to the 2014 Muster honorees light candles as the names are called. (Bottom) The
Ross Volunteer Firing Squad fires three volleys of seven shots during the 2014 Muster ceremony.
Campus Muster to honor 119 Aggies
Evening ceremony will feature
speaker Rep. Will Hurd
By John Rangel
The 2015 campus Muster ceremo
ny will take place in Reed Arena
at 7 p.m. Tuesday to honor members
of the Aggie family who have died in
the past year.
The Reed Arena Muster Ceremo
ny will end campus Muster’s daylong
activities, which start with a flag rais
ing ceremony at sunrise and include a
Camaraderie Barbecue from 11 a.m. to
2 p.m. at Kyle Field’s Northern Plaza..
Tickets are sold on site and af campus
dining facilities, And may he purchased
with Dining Dollars. The Class of 1965
has returned to campus as the 50-year
reunion class.
The 2015 Muster Speaker is Rep.
Will Hurd, who was Texas A&M’s stu
dent body president at the time of the
1999 Bonfire Collapse. His remarks are
followed by the Roll Call for the Ab
sent, which lists the name of every local
Aggie who has died in the past year as
well as all missing members of the 50-
year reunion class. After Roll Call the
Ross Volunteer Firing Squad will fire
three volleys of seven shots, then Silver
Taps will be played.
Personal effects of many of the for
mer students honored at Muster are on
display at the Muster Reflections Dis
play in the MSC Flag Room to give
all visitors a chance to see how those
honored lived as Aggies. The display
opened Friday and will close at 1 p.m.
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West Campus Garage will be free from
5 p.m. to midnight Tuesday evening.
Maria Quiros, 2015 Muster commit
tee chair and supply chain management
senior, said as of Monday afternoon the
2015 Roll Call will include 119 names,
11 of whom were current students and
30 of whom were Class of 1965 mem
bers. About 12,000 people are expected
to attend Campus Muster. Quiros said
she encourages students to arrive early,
around 6:15-6:30 p.m.
Quiros said it is important for stu
dents in attendance to remember Mus
ter Ceremony etiquette, particularly
to say “here” when a member of their
class year is called.
“I’d really urge people to say ‘here’
when those names [of current class
years] are called, as well as obviously
anyone they knew personally. I think
that’s something really neat for the fam
ilies of the current students to experi
ence hearing a lot of different voices
coming from the crowd,” Quiros said.
“It’s a small moment in the whole cer
emony that people [sometimes] forget
to do, but extremely powerful when
people are able to say ‘here’ for mem
bers of their class.”
Campus Muster is the largest of over
400 registered Musters worldwide, ac
cording to the Texas A&M Traditions
Council website.
EDIT0RIALB0ARD
'Stand for the fallen, but
remember what they stood for'
A M ore than 100 Aggies will be honored at Tuesday’s
1% #1 Muster ceremony. Many of their stories are long
I \§ I and fruitful; some were cut tragically short. It is
■ W ■ hard to find joy in a life lost, but Muster calls the
Aggie family to do just that — to not only mourn those
who will never walk campus again, but to celebrate the
marks they left behind.
Treat 2015 Muster with reverence, but approach it with
an eye for the joyous. Attend the Camaraderie Barbecue
with friends and trade Good Bull stories with a member of
the Class of 1965. Say “Howdy” to a campus visitor and
strike a conversation. Visit the Muster Reflections Display
and see how beautiful a life can be when lived fully.
It is easy to lump Muster and Silver Taps together as two
traditions with the same emphasis, but on different scales.
Both remember the fallen and both are solemn. But Muster
is different. Silver Taps is a time to honor and to grieve;
Muster is a time to reflect and to remember. It is a reminder
that we are all members of the Aggie family — for Muster,
they are “here.”
Stand for the fallen, but remember what they stood for.
A loved one lost is tragic, but as the 2015 Muster quote
reads, “Greater than sadness is the celebration of what they
have meant to us and why we answer ‘here.’”
The Battalion s editorial opinion is determined by its Board
of Opinion, with the editor in chief having)final responsibility.
Mark Dore
Editor in Chief
Aimee Breaux
Managing Editor
Jennifer Reiley
Assistant Managing Editor
John Rangel
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