2008-09 True Aggie Nights

Join us at the "A" at midnight on the following dates:

2008 2009
September 15 January 11
October 14 February 9
October 24 - Homecoming March 11
November 13 April 9
December 12 April 17 - A-Day

True Aggie History

In 1916, several students from Salt Lake City founded the Beno Club. In 1917, the Benos erected their “headstone” on campus, a block “A”, which was placed to the west of the Mechanic Arts Building. The monument was moved several times before it went into storage in the early 1960s. In 1967, past students, alumni, and older faculty members campaigned to have the block “A” returned to the Quad, where it was erected atop Old Main Hill, just northwest of the Main Building.

Divergent stories exist as to the founding of the Benos, from a high school principal telling students there would “be no” clubs to an infuriated university president saying there would “be no more clubs” on campus because of student pranksters greasing the trolley tracks coming up 500 North to College Hill.

Whatever its derivation, the Beno Club performed a conspicuous amount of service on campus. In 1926, the club affiliated nationally with the Intercollegiate Knights, adopting the motto of “service, sacrifice, and loyalty.”


Today, one can become a “True Aggie” by receiving a kiss on the “A” under a full moon at midnight by somebody who already is a “True Aggie,” or on Homecoming or A-Day by somebody who is not. The Student Alumni Association is proud to be the keepers of the True Aggie tradition.

True Aggie Night Photos

The major True Aggie Nights are Homecoming and A-Day. The start off with a celebrity couple.
Here are a few past celebrity couples:

Scott & Jody Barnes
Homecoming, October 2008
Scott & Jody Barnes
Ross & Kay Peterson
A-Day, April 2008
Representative Fred & Sharon Hunsaker
Homecoming, September 2007
Kyle Kimbal & Sarah Reale
Student Alumni Executive Boardmembers
A-Day, April 2007
  
Provost Ray & Andrea Coward
Homecoming, October 2006
  


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