Please join us for a night of spies, thrills and mystery at our next Annual Meeting on Saturday, April 25, 2026, at the recently renovated Phillips Event Center on the Briarcrest Country Club campus in Bryan.

“An Evening with The Friends” will give us all an opportunity to celebrate achievements, lock in leadership, increase awareness of The Friends, and enjoy a presentation from one of our own published Former Students. The program will include dinner, a silent auction, an update on The Friends’ and Texas A&M Libraries’ activities, and feature Texas A&M graduate and published Author, Christi “CJ” Daugherty ’86. The evening will be centered around our Spy-craft mystery theme featuring keynote speaker, CJ Daugherty, sharing her professional story from Texas A&M to England and the creation of her most recent alias persona, Ava Glass, author of the Emma Makepeace British Spy series. Dubbed ‘The new queen of spy fiction’ by The Guardian newspaper, and ‘the real thing’ by the Washington Post, as Ava Glass, Ms. Daugherty has published three books with a fourth coming out in March 2026: The Chase, The Traitor, The Trap, and The Hiding Season. “An Evening with The Friends” will be the first in-person discussion of this new book in the U.S. by the author. More information about the author, her alias, and the book series can be found on these websites: www.christidaugherty.com, www.avaglass.uk.

More details on program and sponsorship opportunities will be released in January so mark your calendar now!