TxGC MEMBERS ALWAYS GET $5 OFF!
- Advance purchase online: $30 ($25 for TxGC members)
- Week-of-event & walk-ups*: $35 ($30 for TxGC members)
- *if seats available
- TxGC Member discount is provided by a discount code via member-only newsletter
- TxGC Membership is only $10/year… join today
MENU
- Ice tea, water, soda, cash bar
- Choice of Sicilian salad or Mama’s gumbo
- Choice of entree
- Chicken John Kim: grilled chicken topped in mushrooms, roasted peppers, white wine butter sauce
- Penne Pasta with Meat Sauce: traditional penne pasta with Mama’s slow cooked meat sauce
- Blacked Trout: filet topped with etoufee served with red-skinned mashed potatoes and vegetables
- Choice of chocolate cake or cheesecake
GUEST SPEAKER
Anne Keene is the author of The Cloudbusters.
75 years ago the New York Yankees won the 1943 World Series but they were beaten by a Navy “fighter pilot” team known as the Cloudbuster Nine with Red Sox legend Ted Williams. As a child, Anne Keene’s father, Jim Raugh, (a future minor-league Detroit Tigers player) suited up as the Navy team’s batboy. Seven decades later a trunk revealed the untold story of this team manned by greats from the Yankees, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Detroit Tigers and every other big-league team. Learn about “Greatest Generation” heroes in this narrative including: Babe Ruth, Presidents George H. W. Bush and Gerald “Jerry” Ford; astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter; and Alabama’s Paul “Bear” Bryant.
Keene has written about THE CLOUDBUSTERS in the New York Times, and her book was listed among the top 20 selling summer sports books on Amazon. Keene has spoken at the Texas Book Festival, and has been on tour in Boston, Dallas, North Carolina, and New York. She’s also been a keynote speaker at the South Carolina- Palmetto Chapter of the USNAAA, and will be speaking at the Los Angeles and San Diego Chapters.
All hands on deck! Great opportunity to network!
Join the Service Academy Alumni of USNA and USMMA!
We are nearly the same- fellow alumni of service academies, USN officers, and forever sailors at heart.
Go America! 🙌🏽👏🏽👊🏼
FM Bar will be serving specials😊
TxGC Foundation event.
Please join the TxGC Family as we sponsor our first ever SeaPerch Regional Competition. This is an underwater robotics challenge designed to engage elementary, middle, and high school students in STEM activities. We are looking for your support to attend the event and cheer on the teams and help us promote interest in applying to USNA.
TxGC MEMBERS ALWAYS GET $5 OFF!
- Advance purchase online: $30 ($25 for TxGC members)
- Week-of-event & walk-ups*: $35 ($30 for TxGC members)
- *if seats available
- TxGC Member discount is provided by a discount code via member-only newsletter
- TxGC Membership is only $10/year… join today
MENU
- Ice tea, water, soda, cash bar
- Choice of Sicilian salad or Mama’s gumbo
- Choice of entree
- Chicken John Kim: grilled chicken topped in mushrooms, roasted peppers, white wine butter sauce
- Penne Pasta with Meat Sauce: traditional penne pasta with Mama’s slow cooked meat sauce
- Blacked Trout: filet topped with etoufee served with red-skinned mashed potatoes and vegetables
- Choice of chocolate cake or cheesecake
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Joseph Thomas, USNA
Joe is a graduate of Marine Corps Command and Staff College and a past recipient of the MajGen Merrit A. Edson Leadership Award, the Marine Corps Association Research and Writing Award, and the Col Donald Cook Distinguished Graduate Award of Command and Control Systems School. He is a former elected school board member, a life member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7293 and American Legion Post 739 Whitehall PA, and is involved in a variety of community services.
His research interests involve experiential leadership development in austere and remote environments and he has advised student research for Rhodes, Mitchell, and Fulbright Scholarships. Joe has served as the Faculty Representative to the USNA Mountaineering Club, is a certified Wilderness First Responder and liaison to and instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School in Lander, WY. He has led trekking expeditions to the Tibetan Himalayas, South Africa, Mongolia, Mt. Ararat in Turkey, Peruvian Andes, Vietnam, Morocco, Jordan, and elsewhere. Joe speaks on the topics of leadership and ethics regularly throughout the US, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
The author of numerous articles on the subjects of command and control, military training and education, and leadership, his published books include, Leadership Education for Marines (UMI Press), Leadership Embodied (The US Naval Institute Press, 1st and 2nd Editions), Naval Leadership Capstone (McGraw-Hill), Leadership Explored (AcademX), and Leadership and Ethics Discussion Guide for Marines (Marine Corps University Press). He co-published chapters in Leadership in Dangerous Situations (USNI Press) with colleagues from West Point, the US Air Force Academy, and the NYPD and Perspectives on Modern Honor (Lexington Press). Joe’s education includes an M.S.Sc. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, a M.S.S. from the US Army War College, a Ph.D. from George Mason University, and Certificate in Public Leadership from the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
TxGC MEMBERS ALWAYS GET $5 OFF!
- Advance purchase online: $30 ($25 for TxGC members)
- Week-of-event & walk-ups*: $35 ($30 for TxGC members)
- *if seats available
- TxGC Member discount is provided by a discount code via member-only newsletter
- TxGC Membership is only $10/year… join today
MENU
- Ice tea, water, soda, cash bar
- Choice of Sicilian salad or Mama’s gumbo
- Choice of entree
- Chicken John Kim: grilled chicken topped in mushrooms, roasted peppers, white wine butter sauce
- Penne Pasta with Meat Sauce: traditional penne pasta with Mama’s slow cooked meat sauce
- Blacked Trout: filet topped with etoufee served with red-skinned mashed potatoes and vegetables
- Choice of chocolate cake or cheesecake
GUEST SPEAKER: Mike Matson ‘06
Are you ready for a motivational lunch?! Ready to meet a bad ass? Mike Matson has made a name for himself as an adventurer, most notably earning two Guinness World Records skippering a three-man rowboat over 3,200 miles across the Atlantic! Mike’s love of ocean adventure began at the US Naval Academy, where he first learned how to sail as a crew member of a Navy 44′ MKI visiting ports along the US Eastern Seaboard. Mike was also a member of the Men’s Heavyweight Crew team, the Trap & Skeet team, and completed two marathons. After leaving the Navy, Mike returned home to Houston and became a volunteer firefighter/emergency medical technician in the City of Stafford while simultaneously earning a doctorate in Chemistry from Rice University. As a new professor, Mike authored Inorganic Chemistry for Dummies and taught undergraduate classes at the local University of Houston-Downtown. When his research shifted from biomedical applications to shale oil extraction, Mike transitioned into the oil and gas industry and currently he is a drilling engineer with Kinder Morgan CO2. Mike first met his wife, Sami, in 7th grade, and they now have two happy, healthy Scouts (Morgan, a Brownie, and Cooper, a Bear) that love living in the Heights. When not at his desk downtown, Mike is likely found weight lifting atCrossFit Live Oak in Montrose with Brian.
TxGC MEMBERS ALWAYS GET $5 OFF!
- Advance purchase online: $30 ($25 for TxGC members)
- Week-of-event & walk-ups*: $35 ($30 for TxGC members)
- *if seats available
- TxGC Member discount is provided by a discount code via member-only newsletter
- TxGC Membership is only $10/year… join today
MENU
- Ice tea, water, soda, cash bar
- Choice of Sicilian salad or Mama’s gumbo
- Choice of entree
- Chicken John Kim: grilled chicken topped in mushrooms, roasted peppers, white wine butter sauce
- Penne Pasta with Meat Sauce: traditional penne pasta with Mama’s slow cooked meat sauce
- Blacked Trout: filet topped with etoufee served with red-skinned mashed potatoes and vegetables
- Choice of chocolate cake or cheesecake
Guest Speaker
James Olson
Professor of Practice, Texas A&M University
Jim Olson served in the Directorate of Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency, for more than 30 years, mostly overseas in clandestine operations. He will speak to us about past covert operations, his opinion on current threats to the U.S., and the need for effective intelligence agencies.
Jim worked as a Case Officer in the field, created elaborate “covers” for effectiveness, and looked for individuals with information who were willing to betray their country in exchange for some sort of inducement. Joining the CIA also introduced Jim to his future wife. The two worked in tandem undercover focused on gathering intelligence during the Cold War.
In addition to several foreign assignments, he was chief of counterintelligence at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
In 1997, Jim Olson came to The Bush School of Government and Public Service – Texas A&M, to teach courses on intelligence, counterintelligence and international crisis management. He is the author of two books related to spying and counterintelligence. Visit https://bush.tamu.edu/faculty/jolson/ . Prior to his career in the CIA, he served in the US Navy, where he attained the rank of LCDR.
TxGC MEMBERS ALWAYS GET $5 OFF!
- Advance purchase online: $30 ($25 for TxGC members)
- Week-of-event & walk-ups*: $35 ($30 for TxGC members)
- *if seats available
- TxGC Member discount is provided by a discount code via member-only newsletter
- TxGC Membership is only $10/year… join today
MENU
- Ice tea, water, soda, cash bar
- Choice of Sicilian salad or Mama’s gumbo
- Choice of entree
- Chicken John Kim: grilled chicken topped in mushrooms, roasted peppers, white wine butter sauce
- Penne Pasta with Meat Sauce: traditional penne pasta with Mama’s slow cooked meat sauce
- Blacked Trout: filet topped with etoufee served with red-skinned mashed potatoes and vegetables
- Choice of chocolate cake or cheesecake
Guest Speaker
Richard J. Stoll
Albert Thomas Professor of Political Science, Rice University
Areas of Interest: Research interests include the study of international conflict, public attitudes on foreign and defense policy, and American national security policy. Professor Stoll’s current research encompasses a number of areas. He is studying naval arms races from 1816 to the present. In collaboration with other researchers, he is studying support for foreign policies that promote gender equality. Finally, working with Professor Devika Subramanian of Rice’s Computer Science Department, he is exploring the use of social media (in particular Twitter) to tap public opinion.
In addition to being well known as one of Rice University’s outstanding teachers, Professor Stoll is an accomplished scholar of international conflict. He has used computer simulation techniques and statistical analysis to study topics such as arms competitions, comparative foreign policy, and political realism. Dr. Stoll recently participated in a ten university effort funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to collect data on militarized interstate disputes. Along with Devika Subramanian of Rice’s Computer Science Department, Dr. Stoll is engaged in an effort to create events data from online news sources and to predict the outbreak of serious international conflict. This research has been supported by the National Science Foundation.
* Proceeds from the tournament benefit the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association – Texas Gulf Coast Foundation
** EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTS THRU 6/18 – $30 OFF/Team or $5 OFF/Free Agent **
Date: June 29, 2019
Time: The tournament begins as early as 9:00am
Format:
– 4 on 4 Co-ed (2 females required)
– 3 Games Guaranteed
* Teams: $180 for a team of up to 6 players and $30/player for any players beyond 6.
* Individuals:$35/player
Exclusive Drink Specials All Day!
Pricing Tiers
Teams
- $150.00 through 6/18
- + $30.00 after 6/18
Individuals
- $30.00 through 6/18
- + $5.00 after 6/18
Join us with WP, USMMA, Coast Guard, and Air Force. Food and drink specials.
Join us and meet some of our USNA Alumni Assoc. & Foundation leadership, from Annapolis, on their roadshow through Texas. We’ll have some free snacks, and drink specials, at the 2nd floor, private bar at El Tiempo “1308 Annex” Westheimer.