Silver Taps To Honor Seven Aggies

úThe first Silver Taps ceremony for the new school year at Texas A&M University will be held tonight (Sept. 6).

Chimes from Albritton Bell Tower will play as Aggies will gather in the plaza area in front of the Academic Building. Campus will be darkened and, at at at 10:30 p.m., the silence will be split by the slow echoing cadence of the Ross Volunteers.

Following the firing of three volleys, Silver Taps will be played by six buglers three times--to the north, west and south--all to honor the lives and memory of:

• Monisha Sangeeth Borugadda '16 of College Station, a computer engineering graduate student who died April 13
• Jack Randolph Bryant '18, a biomedical sciences major from Midlothian  who died April 8
• Zhong-Hao Chen '17 of College Station, a graduate student in civil engineering who died May 26
• Alexander “Alex” Denmark Clarke '15, a university studies major from Roanoke who died March 25
• Anton Gridnev '19, an economics major from Frisco who died Aug. 20
• Callie Emily Sisk '17, an interdisciplinary studies major from San Antonio who died April 22
• Cassidy Gabriela Venable '19, a biomedical sciences major from Round Rock who died June 15.

Read more about Silver Taps at today.tamu.edu.

Silver Taps is one of Texas A&M's greatest traditions--thank you to donors to The Association for helping financially support it.