Silver Taps To Honor Three Aggies

Silver Taps will be held tonight to honor the memory of three students who have died since the last ceremony was held.

Those to be honored Tuesday with a Silver Taps ceremony include Christian Amadeus Taylor, a senior biochemistry and genetics major from Killeen, who died Oct. 17; Maria “Maya” Stavrianakou, a doctoral student in neuroscience from Greece, who died Oct. 22; and Chad Alexander Holub, a junior industrial engineering major from Spring, who died Oct. 31.

Silver Taps is a tribute paid to an Aggie who, at the time of his or her death was enrolled in undergraduate, graduate or professional courses at Texas A&M.

One of the university’s most solemn traditions, Silver Taps was first held in 1898 upon the death of the university’s president, Lawrence Sullivan Ross, and has changed little from that time. It is held the first Tuesday of the month between September and April in the event a student death occurs.

Read more at TAMU Times.