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Watch campus Muster, Worldwide Roll Call online

Susan "Sue" Owen '94 April 14, 2023 12:43 PM updated: May 2, 2023 11:52 AM

Wherever Aggies are in the world, they can come together virtually on April 21 as The Association livestreams both the Texas A&M campus Muster and the live Worldwide Roll Call for the Absent at MusterLive.AggieNetwork.com.

Over 260 Aggie Musters will be held in 2023. View the map at tx.ag/FindAMuster.

6:51 a.m. - Live Worldwide Roll Call

The online Worldwide Roll Call of more than 1,200 names will begin at 6:51 a.m. CDT on MusterLive.AggieNetwork.com and is replayable after it concludes. In this Roll Call, The Association and volunteers will read all names on the 2023 Muster roll of Aggies who have passed away since 2022's Muster and answer "Here" for each. More details are here.

To view and sort the names included in this reading, please visit tx.ag/RollCall. These are names reported to The Association by end of day April 16, 2023.

Order of names: During the reading, which takes some 2.5 hours, names will be ordered with the earliest A&M Class years first. Within each Class year, names are alphabetized.

Early Class years: The beginning of the Roll Call may include early Class years such as 1917. In such cases, the person may have passed away more than a year ago, but they are being called now because the death was only recently reported to The Association and the Aggie had not been previously honored at Muster, as far as is known. 

7 p.m. - Texas A&M campus Muster ceremony

The student-run campus Muster in Reed Arena will begin at 7 p.m. and livestream on MusterLive.AggieNetwork.com. This year's campus Muster speaker is Texas A&M Foundation president Tyson Voelkel ’96

For 2023, the campus Muster is set to call 134 names: tx.ag/CampusMusterRoll.

Each Muster calls a different list; visit tx.ag/WhichMuster to find which Muster can call a particular Aggie's name.

More about Muster Live

The Muster Live website was created in 2020 by The Association of Former Students and Texas A&M so that Aggies could gather for Muster virtually. In 2020 and 2021, it also hosted virtual Musters held by dozens of A&M Clubs that could not gather in person due to COVID-19 restrictions.

MusterLive.AggieNetwork.com also allows Aggies, family and friends to upload photos and remembrances.

The Live Worldwide Roll Call was created by The Association in 2018 to guarantee that all names on the Muster Roll would be called and answered with "Here." Now an annual tradition, the reading takes place at the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center. 

The tradition of Aggie Muster

Every year, current and former students of Texas A&M University hold hundreds of gatherings worldwide on or near April 21. These gatherings are more than 100 years old.

Musters can be casual or formal, held in backyards, restaurants, hotel ballrooms and parks. Many include a dinner or potluck meal. Each reflects the communities in which they occur and the Aggie volunteers who organize them. The Association of Former Students provides materials, invitations, support and speakers for hundreds of Musters.

A tradition that is common to nearly all modern Aggie Musters is the roll call, in which the names of Aggies who have passed away since the last Muster are read aloud and one or more comrades answer "Here," signifying that they remain present in our hearts.

To find the Muster nearest you, visit tx.ag/FindAMuster. To learn where an Aggie's name can be called, visit tx.ag/WhichMuster. Find more resources at tx.ag/MusterFAQ.



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