{"id":231857,"date":"2026-04-02T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231857\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:57:07","slug":"silver-taps-to-honor-two-aggies-on-april-7-texas-am-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231857\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Taps to honor two Aggies on April 7 \u2013 Texas A&M Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

Texas A&M University will honor two students during a Silver Taps ceremony April 7 in Academic Plaza.<\/p>\n

Credit: Texas A&M University Division of Marketing and Communications<\/p>\n

Texas A&M University\u00a0Silver Taps<\/a>\u00a0will be held Tuesday, April 7, at 10:30 p.m. to honor the following students:<\/p>\n

Blake Kevin-Harrison Dorman \u2014 senior Sport Management major from Southlake, Texas<\/p>\n

Zaiyan Xu \u2014 doctoral Computer Engineering student from China<\/p>\n

The Silver Taps ceremony will be held at the Academic Plaza. To honor their memory, the campus will be darkened at 10:20 p.m. Students, family and friends will gather in the plaza in front of the Academic Building in silence. At 10:30 p.m., an honor guard from the Ross Volunteer Company will march slowly to the plaza where its members will fire three rifle volleys.<\/p>\n

Those who wish to send condolences to the families may send an email to silvertaps@tamutraditions.net<\/a>,\u00a0or drop a letter in one of four memorial boxes located in Academic Plaza, the Memorial Student Center 12th Man Hall, on\u00a0the Quad or in front of the West Campus Dining Facility.<\/p>\n

To help maintain the tranquility of the event, those living on campus should cover windows, keep noise to a minimum and walk to and from the ceremony without talking.<\/p>\n

Silver Taps is held on the first Tuesday of each month, September through April, if necessary, following a student\u2019s death. It is one of the final tributes held for any current professional, graduate or undergraduate student who has died during the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas A&M University will honor two students during a Silver Taps ceremony April 7 in Academic Plaza. Credit:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-231857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}