- Co-Sponsored by ExxonMobil Veterans Affinity Support Team & West Point Society of Greater Houston
- Free appetizers while it lasts
- Happy hour drink specials
- Cake cutting to commemorate West Point Founders Day
- RSVP on our Facebook page for head count
Come out and join the TxGC Chapter, along with ExxonMobil Veteran Affinity Support Team, and West Point Society of Greater Houston at the first joint networking happy hour for the year. There’ll be some free apps, and a cake cutting to celebrate West Point Founders Day. It will be pay your own way on the bar tab.
April Monthly Lunch
US Foreign & Defense Policy
Feat. Prof. Richard Stoll, PhD, Rice University
Friday April 7, 2017: 11:30-13:30
- Agenda (times estimated)
- 11:30-12:00 Networking & margaritas
- 12:00 Seats, introductions, announcements, lunch orders
- 12:15 Guest Speaker
- 12:20-12:30 Lunch plate service during speaker
- 13:15 Speaker conclusion, final announcements B&G
El Tiempo Cantina Westheimer “1308” Annex (322 Westheimer Rd.)
- Lunch Menu Choice 1 of 3:
- Mixed beef + chicken fajitas + peppers & onions
- Las Vegas plate: cheese enchilada + crispy beef taco + chicken, beef or pork fajitas)
- Seafood plate: shrimp or crab enchilada + grill fish a la Mexicana
- Lunch includes chips & salsa, non-alcoholic beverage, & dessert
Prices
- $25 Member ONLINE purchase UPTO 1 week of event
- $30 Guest ONLINE purchase UPTO 1 week of event
- +$2: Member ($27) & Guest ($32) ONLINE purchases, week of event
- +$5: Member ($30) & Guest ($35) RSVP only, purchases at door
- Link in the chain ceremony between classes of 1967 and 2017
- Lunch served, courtesy of the parents of the class of 2019
- Free event, all Alumni and guests welcome
- RSVP required due to security regulations
- Please RSVP by Thursday, April 20
May Monthly Lunch: Special Edition
Feat. Ambassador Chase Untermeyer,
Former US Representative and Ambassador to Qatar
Friday May 5, 2017: 11:30-13:30
- Agenda (times estimated)
- 11:30-12:00 Networking & margaritas
- 12:00 Seats, introductions, announcements, lunch orders
- 12:15 Guest Speaker
- 12:20-12:30 Lunch plate service during speaker
- 13:15 Speaker conclusion, final announcements B&G
Tony Mandoa’s Gulf Coast Kitchen: 1212 Waugh Drive, Houston TX 77019
- Lunch Menu
- Choice of Starter: Sicilian Salad or Mama’s Gumbo
- Choice of Entree: Chicken John Kim, Penne Pasta with Meat Sauce, or Blackened Trout
- Choiec of Dessert: Chocolate Cake or Cheesecake
Prices
- Limited seats available
- $30 online advance pre-sale, through April 28
- ($25) Members get extra 15% discount with code @ check-out
- ($25) Members get extra 15% discount with code @ check-out
- $32 online pre-sale, after April 28
- ($27) Members get extra 15% discount with code @check-out
- $35 online RSVP only & purchase at the door
- Walk-ups (without RSVP) only allowed if seats available
- ($30) Members get extra 15% discount at the door
TxGC Chapter membership has its benefits…
- Members get 15% when they enter their promo code at check-out
- Contact John Augusto if you have questions or difficulties with tickets
The John Buckingham ’69 Scholarship
Your donation to the USNA Alumni Association, Tx Gulf Coast Foundation, makes a difference. As a 501(c)3, your donation is also tax deductible. Our current, spring campaign specifically goes towards the John Buckingham ’69 Scholarship, sponsoring young, bright, Naval Academy perspective candidates from the Houston area. These perspective candidates will be attending either the Naval Academy Admissions Department’s summer STEM or Summer Seminar (NASS) programs. Your donation goes to help fund a student who has been identified as financially in-need. Each year, the TxGC Foundation has been able to sponsor full tuition for some or all of the dozen-or-so perspective candidates from our area. These candidates can go on to become Midshipmen at the Academy, and future Naval Officers.
About NASS (Summer Seminar)
The US Naval Academy Summer Seminar is a fast-paced, six-day experience for high achievers who have completed their junior year in high school. Summer Seminar teaches you about life at the Naval Academy, where academics, athletics, and professional training play equally important roles in developing our nation’s leaders.
About Summer STEM
Engineering is all about creating, building, and making things better. So what does it take to be an engineer? If you like math and science, you are off to a great start. If you enjoy discovering new things, solving problems, and learning how things work – even better. Creativity, persistence, and the desire to make the world a better place are also important qualities. Becoming an engineer requires hard work and a good education. The Naval Academy’s summer program is a great start to a career in science and engineering.
North ‘burbs Happy Hour:
joint event with ExxonMobil Veterans Advocacy Support Team & West Point Society of Greater Houston
Honoring the US Army & US Merchant Marine’s 242nd birthdays
With birthday cake cutting, free appetizers, and drink specials to help commemorate the occasion, all near the Woodlands.
RSVP on our Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/319765965124226/?ti=icl
LOCATION CHANGE: Now HOP SCHOLAE ALE HOUSE
Click “Buy Tickets” (green button above) to secure your sponsorship level
Sponsorship Levels
- Flagship Sponsor – $2,500
- Exclusive sponsorship role; All marketing material will recognize your organization as the title sponsor
- Beneficiaries will also promote your organization through their marketing channels, social media, websites
- Official activity sponsor or goods give away sponsor (glasses, headbands, shirts, etc).
- Opportunity to address the audience at the final event (silent auction)
- Opportunity to set up a marketing booth or display at the event
- Free admission for 10 people into the event
- Red Sponsor – $1,000
- Your organization’s logo is displayed at the event and in marketing materials (including social media)
- Official activity sponsor or give away sponsor (glasses, headbands, shirts, etc.)
- Opportunity to address the audience at the final event (silent auction)
- Opportunity to set up a marketing booth or display at the event
- Free admission for 6 people into the event
- White Sponsor – $500
- Your organization’s logo is displayed at the event and in marketing materials (including social media)
- Official activity sponsor or give away sponsor (glasses, headbands, shirts, etc.)
- Allowed to address the audience at their sponsored event
- Opportunity to set up a marketing booth or display at the event
- Free admission for 4 people into the event
- Blue Level – $250
- Your organization’s logo is displayed at the event and in marketing materials (including social media)
- Free admission for 2 people into the event
presented by ALF Technical Services
Click “Buy Tickets” (green button above) to secure your donation amount
Help make the Top Gun Annual Benefit a Success and donate today
- Donations made on this site, to the USNAAA Tx Gulf Coast Foundation (a 501(c)3 organization) are tax deductible
- Donations made here go directly to the USNAAA Tx Gulf Coast Foundation, ear-marked, with the specific intent of benefiting the Top Gun Annual Benefit
- Funds are used to help ensure the event’s success (set up costs), and all net proceeds will go directly to the event benefactors (all of which are 501(c)3 organizations)
- USNAAA Tx Gulf Coast Foundation (Buckingham scholarship, Smith-McCool fund, general fund)
- Team Red White & Blue
- Lone Star Veterans Association
Presented by, ALF Technical Services
Thank you for your support and patriotism. All proceeds go to our partner benefactors, including the US Naval Academy Alumni Assoc. Tx Gulf Coast Foundation, Team Red White & Blue, and Lone Star Veterans Assoc.
Your ego wrote you a check you CAN afford.
Top Gun Activities
- Beach volleyball
- Below the hard deck limbo
- Great dodge-balls of fire
- Flat-spin relay
- Call sign competition
- Costume competition
- Silent auction
- And more…
Make a Donation
- Donations made on this site, to the USNAAA Tx Gulf Coast Foundation (a 501(c)3 organization) are tax deductible
- Donations made here go directly to the USNAAA Tx Gulf Coast Foundation, ear-marked, with the specific intent of benefiting the Top Gun Annual Benefit
- Funds are used to help ensure the event’s success (set up costs), and all net proceeds will go directly to the event benefactors (all of which are 501(c)3 organizations)
- USNAAA Tx Gulf Coast Foundation (Buckingham scholarship, Smith-McCool fund, general fund)
- Team Red White & Blue
- Lone Star Veterans Association
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- Support local Veterans directly by contributing to well established and impact local organizations
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- Various sponsorship levels. Find out more on the various options by clicking the button below.
Custodes Libertatis Memorial Fund
The mission of the Custodes Libertatis Memorial Foundation is to provide financial benefits for the purpose of post-secondary education to the children of Naval Academy alumni who have been killed on or after September 11, 2001 in U.S. military combat or training, in service with U.S. intelligence agencies, law enforcement or as a first responder.
While other organizations exist to benefit wounded or deceased West Point alumni, Special Operations personnel and other groups, the Naval Academy did not have a similar dedicated organization or mechanism to provide financial benefits for education to the families of deceased, post-9/11, alumni across all eligible graduating classes. The Custodes Libertatis Memorial Foundation will provide such assistance.
Informational Events
Thursday July 20, 2017
- 11:30am: Lunch at The Combined Arms Transition Center, 2929 McKinney St.
- 5:00pm: Happy Hour at Karbach Brewing Co., 2032 Karbach St.