Softly Call the Muster: The Evolution of a Texas Aggie Tradition / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780890965863 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Publication date: 02/01/1994 Series: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University , #52 Edition description: First Edition Pages: 116 Sales rank: 1,110,608 Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.27(d) Age Range: 3 Months to 18 Years Texas A&M University has many unique traditions, but the annual muster ceremony held on April 21 is among the most hallowed. No other gathering brings more former students together for a single event, marked by Aggies in more than four hundred locations worldwide. Aggies originally observed San Jacinto Day—the victory on April 21, 1836, by the Texans over Santa Anna—with club activities. During the WWII defense of Corregidor in Manila Bay the muster tradition gained broader significance. Surrounded, pounded by several quarter-ton shells a minute, and with little hope of relief that April of 1942, Gen. George F. Moore '08 thought of his alma mater an