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Buddy Wellborn’s Navy Football Preview

Monthly Lunches are back! Join us for our annual Navy Football Preview, featuring Buddy Wellborn ’59.  Buddy is well regarded as a Navy Football expert, having served as NAAA Trustee.  Full bio.

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

• 65 years & older: $6 Per Person
• Child 5 – 11 years old: $3 Per Person
• Child 4 years & under: Free
• Military (Active & Retired): Free

Austin Huckabee

Commissioned as an Armor Officer from Sam Houston State University in 2007, Austin served as an Abrams tank platoon leader and an Air Assault Infantry platoon leader in Baghdad, Iraq from 2009-2010. Since 2012, he as worked for the Houston Police Department as a patrol officer in Greenspoint and Acres Homes, in the Gang Division in a city-wide street level anti-gang unit, and in the SWAT detail as a part-time officer. In 2016, he became a contract instructor for the State Department and Justice Department in Ukraine, training multiple law enforcement agencies in and around Kiev in high-risk tactics.   Austin will talk to us about his experiences in training Ukrainian law enforcement agencies how to handle and respond to high risk tactical situations and the impact of the Ukraine’s current political climate affects its law enforcement’s ability to fight corruption.

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

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

Featured Speaker: Richard W. Murray, Ph.D.

Bob Lanier Chair in Urban Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Houston

Director, Survey Research Institute, University of Houston Center for Public Policy

Richard Murray is a native of Louisiana with B.A. and M.A. degrees in Government from Louisiana State University (1962, 1963) and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota (1967). Dr. Murray has taught at the University of Houston since 1966, and is the Bob Lanier Chair in Urban Public Policy. After serving as the Director of the University of Houston Center for Public Policy for over nine years, he is now concentrating on the Center’s polling operations as the Director of the Survey Research Institute.

His academic interests are in Houston and Texas politics, focusing on campaigns and elections, political parties and interest groups, and public opinion. Professor Murray has written extensively in these areas including co-authoring Texas Politics: An Introduction (6 Editions, 1972-1992), and Progrowth Politics: Change and Governance in Houston (1991), while teaching courses ranging from graduate seminars to introductory American Government.

Professor Murray has previously consulted in more than 200 political campaigns. He conducts polls for The Houston Chronicle, other media, and local governments, and is the political commentator for the local ABC affiliate, KTRK-TV, Channel 13. In addition, his analyses and commentary are carried by television and radio, as well as print media such as The New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, and The Houston Chronicle.

Professor Murray is married to Deborah Hartman, public relations consultant, and has three sons and one grandson.

In January, each year, the TxGC Foundation awards the Smith-McCool Sword to the Midshipment from the Chapter area, with the highest order-of-merit, going into their First Class year.  The sword, is named after astronaut Michael Smith ’67, who was lost in the Challenger disaster, and astronaut William McCool ’83, who was lost int he Columbia disaster.

For the graduating class of 2019, we’re proud to award Midn 1/c Francis Kim of Clear Lake High School.  Link to full biography

Presenting Astronaut, and keynote by Sunita Williams (Captain, US Navy, Ret.) NASA Astronaut.  Link to full biography

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

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.