MusterMile Edition High Hullabaloo VOLUME 8, ISSUE 1 SPRING 2013 The Denver A&M Club Cordially Invites You To The In This Issue: 2013 Aggie Muster 2013 Aggie Muster Invite . 1 featuring Aggie Muster Speaker Bio . 1 R. C. Slocum ANNOUNCEMENTS Football Coach 2013 Aggie Muster . .2 Sunday, April 21, 2013 Call for Silent Auction Items . 2 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Social Hour • 5:00 p.m. Dinner Highlands Masonic Lodge A&M SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS 3550 Federal Boulevard, Denver, CO 80211 Opportunity Award Scholarship 3 2012 Scholarship Recipients . 3 For more Muster details and registration please go to page 11 or visit www.denveraggies.com. Muster Registration: Advance payment is required. You can register for Muster online LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT . 4 through the DAMC website at www.denveraggies.com and make payment via PayPal, or you can complete the registration form on page 11 of this newsletter and mail a check to the address shown. Payments must be received no later than Sunday, April 14, 2013. CLUB OPERATIONS If you have questions regarding Muster, please contact Muster Chair Lindsey Hareell at 2013 A&M Club Officers [email protected]. or [email protected]. Club Contact Info . 5 THE YEAR IN REVIEW . 6 2013 Aggie Muster Speaker UPCOMING EVENTS . .. 7 R. C. Slocum R.C. Slocum AGGIE MOMS . 8 is the National Coach of the Year honors in 1994. His winningest football teams went to 11 bowl games with five of those 2012 FINANCIAL REVIEW . 9 coach in Texas A&M’s being New Year’s Day bowls. On 10 occasions, history. After his last the Aggies, under Slocum, finished ranked in season at A&M in the AP Top 25 and three times finished in the MEMBERSHIP UPDATE . 10 2002, he had compiled Top Ten. During Slocum’s tenure, the Aggies FORMS a career record of were especially hard to beat at home where they Membership . 11 123-47-2 (.721). The won .854 of their games at Kyle Field. At home, 2013 Muster Registration . 11 123 victories in his first the Aggies compiled 22 and 29 game winning Scholarship Drive . 11 14 years ranks eighth streaks. In conference play, A&M compiled a all-time and puts him in the company of coaching Southwest Conference record unbeaten streak legends such as Barry Switzer (137), Tom of 29 games; four straight seasons without a Osborne (137), Steve Spurrier (132), Joe Paterno JOIN US ON loss. As Texas A&M closed out the Southwest (131), LaVell Edwards (129), Amos Alonzo Stagg Conference era, Slocum’s winning percentage (128), and Bud Wilkerson (124). of .865 (44-6-2) was the best in league history Slocum won six championships as head besting the .797 percentage set by the legendary Texas A&M Club of Denver coach of the Aggies; three SWC titles, two Big Darrel Royal of the University of Texas. 12 South Division titles, and the 1998 Big 12 R.C. is a native of Orange, Texas where he Conference Championship. He was league Coach Denver A&M Club of the Year four times and was runner up for Muster Speaker contd. on page 9 M PAGE 2 Announcements 2013 AGGIE MUSTER Speaker: R. C. Slocum, Football Coach Date: Sunday, April 21, 2013 Location: Highlands Masonic Lodge 3550 Federal Boulevard Denver, CO 80211 Time: 4 - 5 pm Social Hour • 5 pm Dinner Cost: Members $24 Non-Members $28 Children 12 & Under FREE Ceremony Only $10 The cost of your ticket to the 2013 Denver A&M Muster includes your meal, and Muster speaker presentation. Muster Registration: Advance payment is required. You can register for Muster online through the DAMC website at www.denver- aggies.com and make payment via PayPal, or you can complete the registration form on page 11 of this newsletter and mail a check to the address shown. Payments must be received no later than Wednesday, April 17, 2013. If you have questions regard- ing Muster, please contact Muster Chair Lindsey Harrell at [email protected]. Remember, your 2012-2013 membership expires the day before Muster, so you must renew your membership for 2013-2014 while registering for the dinner to the get the member discount at Muster. Call for Muster Silent Auction Items o you have anything you would like to donate for our Muster Silent Auction? Last year we raised over D$1500 for our scholarship fund! Please help us do it again. All donations are TAX-DEDUCTIBLE and documentation is supplied. Past donations have included: • Tickets to sporting events, theatre, ballet • Autographed memorabilia - Aggie athletes are an extra big hit! • Discounts, coupons or gift certificates for spas, haircuts, gyms and dining • Free nights at luxury accommodations • Snowboard, jewelry, etc. Items less than $10 in value may be bundled together for auction purposes. Please contact Sarah Spivey at [email protected] or 720.579.4920 if you are interested in donating to the silent auction. Proceeds from the auction benefit our scholarship fund, which helps Colorado high school Auction items on display at the 2008 Muster. students to attend Texas A&M. PAGE 3 Opportunity Award Scholarship Meet the ach year through the University’s Opportunity Award Scholarship program, the Denver EA&M Club awards scholarships to incoming freshmen that are residents within the Club’s region. This year the Club will be giving out thousands of dollars in scholarships. The applicant 2012 pool determines the number of scholarships given and the amounts. The scholarship recipients Denver are selected by the scholarship committee, which is made up of club officers. Applicants must reside within the Club’s region and must be admitted to the University as freshmen for the Fall 2013 semester. For more information about the Opportunity Award Scholarship, please visit the A&M Scholarship web page on the Texas A&M website at https://scholarships.tamu.edu. Scholarship The 2014 scholarship recipients will be announced at the summer picnic. Recipients 2012 Scholarship Recipients Austin Bennett As far as describing my first year at TAMU here goes: I wake up, I go to class, I do homework, I eat, I sleep some, I do it again. Taking engineering is bad enough. Austin Bennett Taking 19 credit hours both semesters is awful. But my classes are worthwhile and I DAMC Scholarship truly feel like I’m in, not necessarily an extended family, but at the very least the most recipient tight knit of communities. Thank you. Allison Burenheide Howdy! My name is Allison Burenheide and I’m an Animal Science major from Grand Junction, CO but more importantly I’m a member of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie class of 2016! This first semester has been full of challenges and amazing experiences! It was hard to be so far away from home and my family but it has gotten easier! I have become really involved in the Saddle and Sirloin club which is one of the biggest student organizations on campus! A lot of the students involved are Agriculture majors and Allison Burenheide we do a lot of agriculture based events and fundraisers. I have also become involved vDAMC Scholarship in Aggie Angels. This is an organization full of thirty girls who are like a student recipient booster club for the men and women’s basketball team. We attend all of the home games and cheer them on! We also get assigned buddies who we make posters and goodie bags for. We also raise money for charities. This year we contributed to Spalding, a foster care organization, and a charity that helps with Parkinsons disease. I was also involved in a Texas BBQ class which was so much fun! This semester has been amazing! I can’t wait to see what is in store for the next couple of years! Thanks and Gig’ Em! Sydney Ritter Since starting at A&M, I feel like I have really flourished. My first semester was great, but flew by! I earned a 4.0, went to every football game, and met a ton of Sidney Ritter new friends. There is always so much to do on campus- I have gotten involved with DAMC Scholarship Freedom Movement and am currently training to be a fitness instructor at the Rec for recipient next fall! My architecture classes have been challenging but enjoyable. I can’t imagine being anywhere else at this time in my life, and my only fear is that the next three years will go by too fast! Thanks and Gig ‘em! Jacob Seiter Thank you DAMC. PAGE 4 Howdy Denver Aggies! Letter Looking Back from the What an exciting year that the Denver A&M Club had in 2012!! I would like to thank the 2012 Officer Team for all of their hard work and dedication this past year. With their willingness we were able to reach out and extend our network of Aggies in the Denver Metro Area and offer President events for Aggies to gather together and connect with new and old friends. The Denver A&M Meghan Bierman ’02 Club was able to triple our membership to finish the year with over 200 active members due to the amazing efforts of our officer team. This increase in our membership ensures that we will be President able to continue awarding scholarships to local students heading to College Station in the fall Denver A&M Club and strengthen our presence in the Denver area. Our Watch Parties at the Fainting Goat were a huge success in our first year competing in the SEC. We averaged 115 Aggies at each game and filled the bar with over 230 Aggies for our Bowl game against OU.