Joint Meeting & Luncheon:
Houston Military Affairs Committee, Greater Houston Council Navy League of US, Texas Commandery Naval Order of the US, Naval Academy Alumni Association
Guest Speaker: VADM Thomas J. Moore, Commander, Navy Sea Systems Command
Full biography: http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=461
EVENT CANCELLED
Credit card payments made for tickets are being refunded and should post within 5-7 days
Football Watch Party: Navy vs. Florida Atlantic
- This event is cancelled
- Support Navy on ESPNU
- Come out next week for Navy vs. Tulate, at Wakefield Crowbar
Football Game Watch Party: Navy vs. Tulane
- THE WARDROOM IS HERE!
- Drink specials
- Food specials
- Family friendly
- Sand volleyball if you get bored!
Comraderie, Free Appetizers, Drink Specials, and now Relief Efforts
Join us for our quarterly, NORTH SUBURBS area, Happy Hour, along with ExxonMobil Veterans Affinity Support Team, and the West Point Society of Greater Houston. September’s happy commemorates the US Coast Guard and US Air Force birthdays.
- Free appetizers while they last
- Drink specials
- Networking and comraderie
- Accepting donations, both toiletries items for use at shelters, and financial, benefitting Combined Arms #HoustonStrong
Football Game Watch Party: Navy vs. Cincinnati
- THE WARDROOM IS HERE!
- Drink specials… $15 Miller Lite buckets
- Food specials
- Family friendly
- Sand volleyball if you get bored!
- Check out our Facebook event for this game for some of the latest info
Football Game Watch Party: Navy vs. Tulsa
JOINT EVENT w/ Tulsa Alumni Assoc.
- THE WARDROOM IS HERE!
- Drink specials, like $15 Miller Lite buckets
- Food specials
- Family friendly
- Sand volleyball if you get bored!
October Monthly Lunch:
Buddy Wellborn’s Navy Football Update
As you may recall, our September monthly lunch, originally featuring Buddy Wellborn’s Navy football kick off was cancelled due to Hurricane Harvey. Buddy, a resident of Dickinson, sustained flood damage. As a result, we’re fortunate to have Buddy as our October lunch speaker. Please join us for our October lunch, as this is our only lunch, in this format, for the fall season.
Friday October 6, 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 “1308 Annex”: 322 Westheimer Rd
- Lunch Menu
- Chips & salsa, guacamole, & queso
- Choice of Entree:
- Chicken or beef fajitas
- Seafood enchiladas
- Las Vegas platter
Prices
- Limited seats available
- $30 online advance pre-sale, through September 29
- ($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 September 29
- ($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 or Rich Bulger if you have questions or difficulties with tickets
About Buddy Wellborn USNA ’59
Buddy Wellborn is a native Texan and graduated from USNA with the Class of 1959 winning the Thompson Trophy for Athletics. For all three of his varsity years, he played on Navy football teams with
winning seasons: 1956 (6-1-2); 1957 (9-1-1); and, 1958 (6-3). He was on
the Navy’s 1956 team that beat Notre Dame (and Heisman Trophy winner Paul Hornung) 33-7 in Baltimore, and then the next year he was AP’s Back of the Week for scoring all three touchdowns in Navy’s victory over Notre
Dame in South Bend. He shared the rushing honors for the Navy team that shutout Army (Anderson and Dawkins) 14-0 in 1957, and then beat Rice 20-7 for the Cotton Bowl Championship in 1958. The next season he
scored the winning touchdown in Navy’s 20-14 victory over Michigan in the “Big House.”
After commissioning, he married the girl of his dreams from Cartersville Georgia, and Houston’s prima ballerina, the beautiful Gladys
Camilla Hamby. They had three sons, R. Burke, Jr. (USNA ’85), Robert Guy (TRF Kings Bay), and John Paul (Savannah). Unfortunately for this
“Dream Team,” Gladys suffered from renal tubular acidosis that took her life 16 March 1993.
In July 1959, he first served in USS FRANK KNOX (DDR-743) deployed to WESPAC on patrol in the Formosa Strait off the islands of
Quemoy and Matsu. All in all he served thirty years on active duty logging over seventeen years at sea, half of which was in submarines. He had four commands at sea during the 70’s and the 80’s deploying with 2nd Fleet to
the North Atlantic and Arctic (Lofoten Islands); with 7th Fleet to the Western Pacific (YANKEE Station) and an excursion into the Indian Ocean
(Persian Gulf); and, with 6th Fleet to the Mediterranean. During his last deployment he commanded USS DETROIT (AOE-4)
and was the Battle Group’s Logistics Coordinator for OPERATION ELDORADO CANYON, the US air strike on Libya during the early
morning darkness of 15 April 1986– again, “…to the shores of Tripoli.” He received his MSEE from NPGS in 1969, and his MA from NWC in
1976. He was the Director of ASW Programs for the Naval Sea Systems Command, and managed the first installations of the Navy’s advanced
Tactical Towed Array Sonar (TACTAS) system. He has authored several professional papers, including Seaman’s Eye– Seaman’s Mind; RAS– the Multiplier; TRIXS– Tactical Readiness Information Exchange System; The Decibel—an Acoustic Primer; Again “…to the shores of Tripoli;”
The Efficacy of Submarine Warships; THREAT-21—Radical Islam; et al.
Buddy taught at Texas A&M Galveston in the 90’s but now only teaches part-time for ATI. For the last five years, he has posted reports of
Navy Football games on the internet for many USNA alumni groups that have acclaimed that his reports not only are exactingly informative but are reminiscence of the style of legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice.
In 2009, he was nominated to be a trustee for the NAAA.