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A sense of duty, a sense of honor
Rep. Hurd returns to A&M as Muster speaker
By Spencer Davis
Rep. Will Hurd watched the Leonid meteor shower with
a group of friends on a chilly November night in 1999
before going to bed around 2 a.m. Less than an hour later, a
phone call told him the news — Bonfire had collapsed, and he
needed to hurry to the polo fields.
Twelve students died and 27 were injured that morning
in the 1999 Bonfire Collapse. For Hurd, Class of 1999 and
student body president during the collapse, the following days
and weeks would define his campus legacy and follow him
for the rest of his life. Sixteen years later, Hurd returns to the
campus he once helped lead through its greatest tragedy as the
2015 Muster speaker.
Tradition and tragedy
After a friend’s phone call woke him up on the morning of
the Collapse, Hurd headed to the polo fields. He said nothing
could have prepared him for Stack as it was after the collapse.
“I was not prepared for the scene,” Hurd said. “It looked
like a scene out of a movie — just complete chaos. Immedi
ately we thought, ‘What’s happening and what can we do to
help?”’
Hurd said the next days were spent reacting to the tragedy.
“The next day was about helping coordinate student in
volvement in moving the various logs and debris, talking to
the media; it was working with different groups in doing the
memorial, and making sure people knew what was going on,”
Hurd said.
That calm resolution in the face of tragedy is a characteristic
of Hurd, who went on to work undercover for the Central
Intelligence Agency before being elected to Congress last year.
Hurd said he sees a special connection between his experi
ence with the collapse and the Muster ceremony, at which he
will speak Tuesday.
“For all of us that were involved in the Bonfire Collapse
this is something that is going to stick with us for the rest of
our lives,” Hurd said.
While he said that he appreciates the leadership lessons that
can be understood from the Bonfire Collapse, he would give
it all up to see the Stack never fall.
“I would give up all of those lessons if those 12 kids were
still alive,” Hurd said.
A life of service
Hurd was a computer science major at Texas A&M and
planned to join a technology company after graduation, but
was instead inspired by a professor and his sense of duty to join
the CIA. For the next 10 years Hurd served as an undercover
agent working in war-torn countries such as Afghanistan and
Pakistan.
Hurd said he decided to run for office in 2009 after he be
came jaded with the political leadership of the country.
“I ran because I was pretty shocked at the caliber of our
elected leaders,” Hurd said. “I thought you either have to be
part of the problem or part of the solution, so I left a job that I
was good at and loved to run for Congress because I thought
I could do a better job.”
He did not win. With no backup plan Hurd started a cy
bersecurity firm, FusionX, but his sense of duty and leadership
soon called him to run for office again in 2014. He was suc
cessful this time and became the representative of Texas’s 23rd
congressional district.
“[Leadership] is empowering the people that work with you
to give them the abilities, give them a vision and let them run
with the execution,” Hurd said.
While his speech at Muster will focus on honoring those
Aggies who have died in the past year, Hurd said he feels hon
ored to be called back to speak at the ceremony.
“I think there is no higher honor for an Aggie than to come
back to campus and speak at Muster,” Hurd said. “I’m usu
ally an extemporaneous speaker, but I’ve spent a lot of time
obsessing over what I’m going to say Tuesday because it’s such
a big deal.”
Chelsea Potter, communication senior and Muster execu
tive, said Hurd was chosen as 2015 Muster speaker because of
his dedication to Texas A&M.
PROVIDED
Rep. Will Hurd, SBP during the 1999 Bonfire Collapse,
will speak at this year's Muster ceremony.
“He was really involved when he was a student here —
he was the president of the student body during the Bonfire
collapse, and everybody I talked to that was here while that
happened said he was put under a lot of pressure during that
time. All eyes were kind of on him and he just really stepped
up to the plate and was a really good face for A&M and a really
good student body president during this really difficult time,”
Potter said.
The Muster ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Reed
Arena.
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