Softly Call the Muster, Let Comrade Answer “Here!”

Tickets for the 2024 Fort Worth Aggie Muster can be purchased at the link below.

https://fwaggiemuster.muradbid.com

• • When: Sunday, April 21, 2024
  • Where: 5th & Carroll Events
    2713 W 5th Street
    Fort Worth, TX 76107

Reverend Ryan Spencer Reed SSC ’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.

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.