"What is an Aggie Mom?"
An Aggie Mom is a special person. She has to suffer through countless Aggie jokes
when she tells her friends where her child is going to college. She has to drive the
endless road to College Station-for there is no short cut. She prays silently when
her child leaves to make the long trip to school each time after a visit home. An
Aggie Mom has to endure the comment, "That's just like an Aggie" everytime
her child does something less than perfect-sometimes a lot less than perfect.
But the Spirit of Aggieland is alive and well in the heart of each Aggie Mom.
She cheers the athletic teams even when she knows none of the rules and none
of the players. Her heart swells with pride when the scholarly accomplishments
of faculty and students are related in the media-even when she has never heard
of the individuals or of what they have studied.
Sounds of the "Aggie War Hymn," "Silver Taps," Reveille barking - sights of the
twelfth Man towels, the Aggie Senior Ring: All these things make an Aggie Mom
proud. But nothing can compete with the pride shining in her eyes as her Aggie
Crosses the stage with diploma in hand-and looks up into the crowd searching
for Mom's face.
Being an Aggie Mom does not end at graduation, because once an Aggie Mom,
always an Aggie Mom!
Composed by Binnie Dierschke, San Angelo A&M Mothers' Club
