The Buddy Wellborn ’59 tradition continues…
Annual Navy Football Preview Lunch, presented by Dave Miller ’65
Prepare for an in-depth presentation on Navy football… a summary of what happened (and went wrong) last year, as well as an analysis on the team’s strengths and weaknesses going into this year, player by player. Additionally, prepare of Dave Miller’s prediction on the potential outcome for each opponent.
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
About Guest Speaker, Dave Miller ’65. Dave hails from the mountains of southwest Virginia. The only industry is coal mining. He played football, basketball and baseball in high school, and as a result, has always been an avid sports fan especially when it involves Navy. Dave served as a Navy pilot, and as an instructor at Whiting Field in VT-3 and flew P-3’s out of Jacksonville, Florida, tracking Russian subs. He left the Navy after almost six years and then worked for EDS for 29 years before retirement. He continues consulting.
In memory of Buddy Wellborn ’59. Raymond Burke “Buddy” Wellborn, Sr., Captain USN (ret.) died 23 October 2018, in League City TX, of complications from an Aortic Aneurism at age 82. Born in Bryan Texas, 13 August 1936, he attended Rice University for 1 year before entering the United States Naval Academy in 1955 in the Class of 1959. He was a standout football player during his time at USNA. He played on the winning 1958 Cotton Bowl team. After graduation, he married Gladys Hamby of Houston Texas and their journey began. He reported to USS Frank Knox for his first tour then eventually went on to Submarine school. After 15 years and numerous tours on diesel boat submarines, including a Command of USS Entemador, he transferred to the Surface Warfare community. He commanded the USS Mount Baker and the USS Detroit. His final command was Navy Electronics Command in Charleston S.C. After 30 years of service, he retired in June 1989 and eventually moved home to Houston. He taught at Texas A&M while earning his Doctorate in Maritime Economics. He then left Texas A&M to pursue his love of writing and lecturing. He had many hobbies, but in the end he enjoyed being involved with the Navy Football brotherhood and as a Trustee United States Naval Academy Foundation and Scholarship Program. He tirelessly wrote game summaries of each Navy football game for friends and many others to enjoy. Each football season, he would travel around to numerous Alumni chapters to give his Navy Football preview.
Navy vs. East Carolina Football Viewing Party
Wakefield Crowbar: 954 Wakefield St. Houston
Family friendly; food and drink specials
Thursday night game. Be a patriot and join us at the American Legion in Garden Oaks.
Hamburgers & tots for sale, drink specials.
October Monthly Lunch with Mitchel Roth
Join us for lunch with MITCHEL P. ROTH, the author of 16 books including Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo, Global Organized Crime: A 21st Century Approach, and An Eye for An Eye: A Global History of Crime and Punishment, translated into Turkish, Croatian, and forthcoming in Chinese. Roth recently completed Fire in the Big House: The Forgotten Story of the Ohio Penitentiary Fire, America’s Worst Prison Disaster, and its Aftermath. He is professor of criminal justice and criminology at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He resides in The Woodlands, Texas.
Mitch will discuss his latest book, Convict Cowboys. Convict Cowboys is the first book on the nation’s first prison rodeo, which ran from 1931 to 1986. At its apogee the Texas Prison Rodeo drew 30,000 spectators on October Sundays. Mitchel P. Roth portrays the Texas Prison Rodeo against a backdrop of Texas history, covering the history of rodeo, the prison system, and convict leasing, as well as important figures in Texas penology including Marshall Lee Simmons, O.B. Ellis, and George J. Beto, and the changing prison demimonde.
TxGC MEMBERS ALWAYS GET $5 OFF!
- TxGC Members, use the discount code, provided via email, at check out
- $35 for non-members
- $30 for TxGC Members
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
Navy vs Tulsa… joint Alumni game party at Ladybirds Bar in Houston. Join us this Saturday, 6:30 pm kickoff
RSVP on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/events/981539105519136/?ti=icl
Join us as we try out a new venue for central Houston area game parties. Navy vs. USF, Saturday October 19, 2:30pm kickoff. Drink specials.
Join us as we try out a new venue for central Houston area game parties. Navy vs. Tulane, Saturday October 26, 2:30pm kickoff. Drink specials.
November Monthly Lunch with Prof. Richard Murray, PhD, Bob Lanier Chair in Urban Public Policy, and Director of Survey Research Institute, University of Houston
TxGC MEMBERS ALWAYS GET $5 OFF!
- TxGC Members, use the discount code, provided via email, at check out, and get $5 off regular or advance, online price, for each ticket purchased
- $35 per person (regular price)
- $30 per person (advanced, online price)
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
Join us, once again, at our new favorite bar, Marquis II, for this Friday night game against UConn. Drink specials.