Update: Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Aggie Muster will look different this year, but the spirit remains the same. Check here for the latest information on how to Muster in 2020: tx.ag/2020Muster
"In this ceremony we honor the memories of fellow A&M men and women whose death prevents their answering Roll Call at this annual Muster. The Roll is a symbolic Roll Call of all students and former students whom death has taken from our ranks, but whose memory lives on in our hearts. As each name is called, a comrade will answer: Here!"
Each Aggie's name is a link that goes to his or her online Silver Taps page. While this list is updated once a day, the Silver Taps obituaries on our News page are updated throughout the business day.
Names have already been compiled for the April 21, 2020, Worldwide Roll Call. To add a name for next year's Roll Call, please email SilverTaps@AggieNetwork.com.
To learn where an Aggie's name may be called for Muster, please visit tx.ag/WhichMuster.
SPECIAL NOTES:
- It is traditional for the names of Aggies killed in military service-related actions to be called at all Musters. To date, no such deaths have been reported since the 2019 Muster.
- The annual Roll Call for the Absent includes the names of all Aggies whose deaths have been reported to The Association since the last Muster. Some of those deaths happened more than a year ago but, because the passing was not previously reported, the name has not previously been called at any Aggie Muster.
- Local Muster chairs are asked to include on their rolls Maj. Harvey Harrell Storms '39. Maj. Storms was missing in action in 1950 during the Korean War and then declared dead in 1953. However, his remains were not identifed and returned to his family for burial until 2019. You can read more about Maj. Storms here. Maj. Storms' name will be called during the Worldwide Roll Call for the Absent on the morning of April 21 and at the student-led campus Muster ceremony the evening of April 21.
- Local Muster chairs may wish to include Dr. William Hodges Mobley on their rolls. He did not attend Texas A&M University as a student but served as the president of Texas A&M University from 1988 to 1993. Dr. Mobley's name will be called during the Worldwide Roll Call for the Absent on the morning of April 21.
- Local Muster chairs may wish to include Dr. John Jay Koldus III on their rolls. He did not attend Texas A&M University as a student but served as the vice president of student services at the university for more than 20 years. His name will be called during the Worldwide Roll Call for the Absent on the morning of April 21 and at the student-led campus Muster ceremony the evening of April 21.
