Texas A&M University will hold its Silver Taps ceremony at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, at the Academic Plaza to honor six recently deceased students.
The students are Branson McNeel Bean, a sophomore Agricultural Leadership and Development major from Cypress; Victoria Claire Burkett, a master’s Human Resource Management student from Friendswood; Nicholas Stephen Heinrich-Barna, a Ph.D. Computer Engineering student from Lucas; Alan Delynn Moore, a Ph.D. Engineering student from Houston; Mastura Safayet, a Ph.D.
Geography student from Ithaca, New York; and Graham Andrew Wetherell, a freshman Construction Science major from Houston.
The campus will be darkened at 10:20 p.m. Students, family and friends will gather silently in the plaza in front of the Academic Building. At 10:30 p.m., an honor guard from the Ross Volunteer Company will march to the plaza and fire three rifle volleys.
People may send condolences to the families by emailing silvertaps@tamutraditions.net or by placing a letter in one of four memorial boxes. The boxes are in Academic Plaza, Memorial Student Center 12th Man Hall, the Quad and in front of the West Campus Dining Facility.
