UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday - July 22, 2008
Navy League Luncheon Meeting Noon
Fort Sam Houston Golf Clubhouse, 2901 Harry Wurzbach Hwy
Featured Speaker
RADM John W. Townes, USN (Ret)
RADM Townes is a former surface warfare officer, and did a Flag stint with BUPERS before retiring several years ago. He is now Vice-President (Military Affairs) for USAA, and will speak on unique USAA services that are aimed at helping all branches of military personnel in many places around the world.
Cost per person: $13.00 Everyone is welcome to attend whether a member or not. Pre-payment for reservations is requested ! Please send your pre-pay check (to arrive NLT Friday, 7/18) to Treasurer, 11722 Whisper Dew, San Antonio, TX 78230-3536. Make the check payable to " NLUS - Alamo Council”.
Please call Donald Knapp at 493 7491 (E-mail: stepsahead01@yahoo.com) or Jesse Rodriguez at 826 7192 (E-mail: jesse6573@sbcglobal.net) before 1200, Friday, July 18, 2008 for your reservation. Reservations made and not canceled by that date are considered to be firm and payable by the person making it. If you can't cancel by the dead line, you may send a substitute, or hope we can resell your reservation to a "walk-in" on July 22.
[Note: The Council buys and pays the Club in advance for all meals reserved; so "no shows" are obligated to reimburse us for meals they reserve, unless we are fortunate enough to re-sell them.]
For those who for some reason resort to paying at the door, please have a personal check or the correct cash in hand when you arrive. Seats (reservations) not redeemed by 1200 on meeting day will be sold to "walk-ins" if any such people are available. If not, we will contact you and ask for payment to cover the unused reservation.
Directions & Parking: From San Antonio, take I-410 E to Harry Wurzbach Hwy. Follow Harry Wurzbach South.
About two mile south, pass the Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery on your left then notice golf fairways on your left. At the top of the next hill, turn left into the wide gate of the Golf Club. Parking is ample, but watch out for those golf carts tearing around the parking lot at full throttle! They are quiet and their golfer drivers take no prisoners!
The golf club is not on Ft. Sam grounds, so security checks are not an issue.
FUTURE PROGRAMS
On Tuesday, 26 Aug 2008 we will have CAPT John E. Powers, USNR (Ret) from Austin, Texas, who has authored a book on, and will speak about "The First Texas Navy". Yep, there really was a Texas navy way back yonder. He also is a retired Judge having served for 20 years on the Texas Court of Appeals. (Whew! When does this man sleep?) Should be a winner of an intriguing subject, especially since our own Walt Wilson is now an Admiral in the said Texas Navy !
Tuesday, 23 September: T B A (We are angling for a senior speaker from the Mine Warfare organization at Ingleside) Lots of new things are happening in this military capability.
Tuesday 28 October: T B A (Watch this space.)
On Thursday, 13 November, 2008, [note the special date, necessary because of the intense schedule of our distinguished speaker] we have been fortunate to book VADM Adam M. Robinson, Jr., MC, USN, Surgeon General for the Navy, and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. He has a major role in the development of the "all services medical training project" now ramping up at Ft. Sam. Come to this meeting and get up to speed on this most challenging military medicine initiative; and also the largest economic development project ever to hit San Antonio. (Bigger than the Toyota truck plant project!)
Date to be set - December, 2008: Our ever-popular Christmas Meeting, and the Honors Program for "Seamen Of The Year" from the numerous Navy commands in The San Antonio area. Date to be announced shortly. Watch this space !