A ring and a kiss: True-Aggied and engaged, all in one day

It’s not every day a person becomes a True Aggie, and it’s a special occasion when a person becomes engaged.

Rachel Hilton, a senior in communicative disorders and deaf education and 2015’s Miss USU, and Derrick Saunders, a senior in management information systems, were scheduled to kick off January’s True Aggie Night with a kiss as the celebrity couple.

“I had to periodically remind him, just because he forgets things sometimes,” Hilton said, “and so as we were approaching, you know I told him at the beginning of the week, ‘Hey Derrick, don’t forget, we’re the celebrity couple at True Aggie Night this week.’”

Hilton had already been kissed on the A a few times before, but Saunders hadn’t gone yet. All year, she tried to get Saunders to become a True Aggie, Hilton said.

The day of the event, Hilton and Saunders went skiing together. As they were heading home, Saunders proposed.

“All of a sudden we were engaged and we went and saw some friends and all this other stuff,” Hilton said.

A few hours later, the pair arrived on the Quad tired from skiing and the excitement of getting engaged. With an audience of about twenty people, Hilton said, they kicked off True Aggie night and their engagement was announced.

“I was just really glad that he didn’t propose on the A,” Hilton said, “I probably would have kicked him off.”

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