Sunday, April 13, 1997

Aggie Club to muster April 21

The Abilene A&M Club will hold Aggie Muster at 7 p.m. April 21 at Briarstone Manor in Abilene.

Aggies across the United States and throughout the world will be having Muster gatherings on that date, as is done each April 21 as part of the tradition of Texas A&M University.

Cost for the Aggie Muster in Abilene is $10 per person, payable at the door.

Glenn Dromgoole, vice-president/editor of the Abilene Reporter-News, is this year's Muster speaker.

Dromgoole, who is serving this year as president of the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association, is a 1966 journalism graduate of Texas A&M.

Before joining the Reporter-News in 1985, Dromgoole was editor of the Bryan-College Station Eagle. He was with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in a variety of reporting and editing capacities for 14 years.

Dromgoole has taught journalism at the University of Texas at Arlington, Tarrant County Junior College, and Prairie View A&M University.

He holds a master's in journalism from Texas A&M-Commerce and studied for a year at the University of Michigan as a National Endowment for the Humanities Journalism Fellow.

Danny Mack Brown (Class of '72) is Muster chairman. To help him plan the crowd, he asks that persons planning to attend call him at (915) 673-2002.

Brown said Muster isn't limited to members of the Abilene A&M Club or A&M former students.

"Sons, daughters, parents, grandparents of Aggies - or just friends of Texas A&M - are all welcome," Brown said.

The first Aggie Muster was held in 1883 when Aggies met on June 26 to "...live over again our college days, the victories and defeats won and lost upon drill ground and classroom. Let every alumnus answer the roll call," wrote the former students.

A highlight of the Muster ceremony is the roll call of former students who have died in the past year. A former student answers "here" as each name is read.