Event Details
The Fort Worth A&M Club invites all Aggies to join in this time-honored tradition celebrating camaraderie and the Aggie Spirit as we remember the local Aggies who are no longer here to participate in this years Muster.
Fort Worth Aggie Muster
April 21, 2024
5pm - 9pm
5th & Carroll Events
2713 W 5th Street
Fort Worth, TX 76107
***TICKET SALES WILL END ON APRIL 18TH AT 4:00PM***
Event Timeline:
5pm - Registration Opens
5pm-6pm - Cocktail Hour
6pm-7pm - Dinner Service
7pm-9:30pm - Muster Program & Roll Call Ceremony
Dinner:
Gourmet chicken & beef fajita buffet with all of the fixings
Parking:
Parking is available in the Blue Mesa Grill Parking Lot near the venue, as well as in the parking lot of Fellowship Church next door to the venue.
Ticket Options
Individual Dinner Ticket
$40
This ticket includes access to the program and one dinner plate.
*Depending on ticket sales and venue capacity, a complementary program only ticket may be available at a later date.
Event Sponsorship
Table Sponsor
$1,500
This sponsorship package includes (10) individual dinner tickets, (2) drink tickets per guest, premium seating, and sponsorship recognition through the club's marketing channels.
Couple Sponsor
$200
This sponsorship package includes (2) dinner tickets, (2) drink tickets per person, and recognition through the club's marketing channels.
Individual Sponsor
$100
This sponsorship package includes (1) dinner ticket, (2) drink tickets, and recognition through the club's marketing channels.
Muster Speaker & History of Muster
Muster Speaker
Bishop Ryan Reed '90
The Right Reverend Ryan Spencer Reed SSC (born 1967) is an American Anglican bishop. Since 2020, he has been the Fourth Diocesan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth in the Anglican Church in North America.
Reed was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1967. He has said that his birth mother was an unwed teenager who gave him up for adoption, an experience that he has said informs his pro-life views. Reed was raised and confirmed in the Episcopal Church, and knew as a child that he wanted to become a priest. He was raised in Texas and attended Texas A&M University, where he was in the TAMU Corps of Cadets. He graduated in 1990, with a major in Political Science and a minor in History. During his time at Texas A&M he trained as an Infantry Officer, United States Army, later serving as a Chaplain in the United States Army.
After graduation, he became youth minister at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Fort Worth. Reed married Kathy Marie Warren in 1991 at St. Andrew's; they have one adult daughter. From 1993 to 1996, Reed studied for his M.Div. at Trinity School for Ministry. Reed returned to Fort Worth and was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Jack Iker in 1996 and to the priesthood in 1997. He served his curacy at St. Vincent's Cathedral, Bedford, Texas and then as Vicar of Ascension and St. Mark in Bridgeport, from 1998 to 2002. In 2002, Reed returned to St. Vincent's as Dean, overseeing the cathedral and its staff. During his time as Dean, the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church. St. Vincent's was the location for the inaugural Provincial Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America.
Reed comes from the Anglo-Catholic tradition within Anglicanism, and has been a member of the Society of the Holy Cross since 1999. He became a Forward in Faith North America council member in 2008. In addition to his parish work, Reed was twice a member, for a combined 11 years, as the Standing Committee President in the Diocese of Fort Worth and served on the ACNA's Executive Committee.
On June 1, 2019, Reed was elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of Fort Worth. He was consecrated on September 21, 2019, by Archbishop Foley Beach. Bishop Iker retired at the end of 2019, and Reed was enthroned at St. Vincent's on January 5, 2020. He is a member in Society of the Holy Cross, a fraternal organization for Priests and Bishops, since 1999. Bishop Reed serves on the Executive Committee, Anglican Church in North America, since 2012. His memberships also include Council Member – Forward in Faith, NA., 2008 and the Board of Trustees, Member, American Anglican Council, 2009.
History of Muster
Aggies gathered together on June 26, 1883, to live over again their college days, the victories and defeats won and lost upon the drill field and classroom. Eventually the annual gathering evolved into a celebration of Texas Independence on San Jacinto Day – April 21. Over time the tradition has changed, but the charge has remained the same: “If there is an A&M man in one hundred miles of you, you are expected to get together, eat a little, and live over the days you spent at the A&M College of Texas.” Muster is celebrated in more than four hundred locations worldwide, with the largest ceremony on the Texas A&M campus in College Station. Aggie Muster as we know it today is credited to E. E. McQuillen ’20, who served as the Executive Secretary of The Association of Former Students. It is fitting that he was honored to serve as the first Campus Muster speaker.
Muster is a time to look to the past, present and future – not only to grieve for those we have lost but to reflect and celebrate the lives that connect us to one another. A gesture so simple in nature yet so lasting in spirit, Muster is the lasting impression every Aggie leaves with us; it reminds us of the greatness that lies within the walls of the Aggie family, of the loyalty we possess, of the connection that binds us and of the idea that every Aggie holds a place of importance – whether they are present in flesh or spirit.