Austin, Texas Chapter
The Association for all Military Officers
Companion
Bulletin-May
2008
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Companions, Our last meeting until September, will be held at the Austin Club, at 110 E. 9th Street, on Thursday, 8 May. To facilitate the arrangements, please complete the attached menu form and mail it with your check to the address indicated, no later than Friday, 2 May. Companion Stanley Bullard has arranged for the Medallion Quartet to provide us with after-dinner entertainment. This meeting should prove to be a fun filled evening. Youth Leadership Conference: Companion Tom Anderson has taken the lead in procuring five great students from James Bowie High School. Mr. Stephen Kane, the Bowie principal, has been advised that our chapter will provide five scholarships for his students, the same as last year. If you have an emerging high school junior or senior in mind that you would like to send to one of this year's YLCs, please contact me and I will assist in making the arrangements. All conferee applicants should be in the top 25% of their high school class in order to be competitive and derive maximum benefit from these conferences. Our own Companion Bob Vaughan, though now living in Dallas, has again volunteered to be on the staff of the Texas A&M YLC, scheduled for 20 - 24 July. This will be his third year at TAMU. | Youth
leadership Conference scholarships: The $200.00 YLC scholarships for 2008
are being subsidized by the National MOWW Patriotic Education Foundation
and will cost us $140.00 each. We need to consider contributing to this
most worthwhile endeavor. All funds donated to our Chapter's five
scholarship commitment should be paid by check to "TX PEF, Inc",
which is a 501 (C) 3 tax deductible foundation. Chapter Directory: Companions, we are formulating a Chapter directory and need your current telephone number, E-mail address and, if you have recently moved, your home address. Also if you are a past Chapter President we need the year you were installed and if you have received the "Silver Patrick Henry" award, we need the year the award was made. If you desire a particular speaker or subject at a future meeting, please contact Companion Stanley Bullard at sgbullard@sbcglobal.net or 926-8438. We aim to please. We should all be sensitive to the needs of our members that require assistance to facilitate their attendance at our meetings. Please do not hesitate to call me at 261-6272, to arrange for this service. Andrew J. McVeigh III |
| Meeting. May
8th
2008 The Austin Club (110 East Ninth Street). Please fill out the menu form on the last page and return it with your check payable to MOWW to Colonel Andrew J. McVeigh III 48 Cottondale Road Austin, Texas 78738-1513 to arrive not later than 2 May. Note: The low cost per person requires a minimum of 30 in attendance., contact COL Andrew McVeigh III at 261-6272 |
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Medallion
Quartethas been singing in Austin since 2001. They are a constant presence in the Austin music scene, performing free of charge at charity events, public service events, schools, and hospitals. They also keep busy providing paid entertainment for parties, weddings, and other gatherings. They were recently invited to sing the National Anthem for the 5000 attendees at the Texas State Tournament for Destination Imagination and they were one of many local groups invited to perform in the week-long opening celebration of Austin's new premier performing site, the Long Center. |
You may have seen or heard them during one of their many appearances on local Austin radio and TV shows or during one of their many impromptu performances around town. The Guys: The lead singer, Lon Badgett, is a retired Air Force Pilot who has dabbled in vocal music since his High School Days. The Bass, Clay Pearce, is a retired Air Force Navigator and also has a lifelong background as a singer and guitar player. LeRoy Lawson, the baritone of the group, is a professional photographer and retired Air Traffic Controller whose singing career also spans several decades. Bob Schneider, the tenor, is a manager with the Texas Department of Information Resources and was a barbershop singer in Maine for many years before moving to Texas in the 90's. Staff Meeting |
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Chapter Officers Commander - COL McVeigh 1st Vice Cmdr. - MAJ Bullard Adjutant - Patricia Eagan Treasurer - CAPT Burrill Chaplain - LtC Ernest Dean Youth Leadership Conference Coordinator - LTC Tom Anderson ROTC Coordinator - Col Leon Holland |
Inspiration Selection THE GREAT COMMANDMENT Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important commandment. The second most important commandment is like it: love your neighbor as you love yourself. (Mt 22:37-39) |
| Famous Battles
AUSTERLITZ, 1805 Great Britain enticed Russia and Austria into the Third Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte in 1805. Napoleon ordered the 200,000 French soldiers stationed along the English Channel to do an about-face and marched them to Austria. In a spectacular campaign, Napoleon captured 30,000 Austrians at Ulm without fighting a major battle, and then sped on to capture Vienna. Knowing the Austrians had reinforcements coming and that Prussia might join the Allies at any time, Napoleon tricked Czar Alexander I of Russia and Emperor Francis II of Austria into a premature battle. Napoleon made peace offers and retreated, luring the combined Austro-Russian army to Austerlitz (in modern Czechoslovakia), a locale Napoleon had meticulously studied beforehand. On Dec. 2, the two armies faced each other, with 70,000 French on the west bank of the Goldbach Brook and 85,000 Austrians and Russians on the east bank. The Russians sent 40,000 men in a predawn attack against the French south wing. In the dark, these soldiers tramped through marshes and swamps, losing contact with the main army and barely finding the French. Napoleon had expected this attack and had massed his army in the center. At 8:00 A.M., the French stormed the Austro-Russian center on the Pratzen Plateau. About then, Napoleon--in a joyful mood because it was the anniversary of his coronation--saw the sun breaking out of the low clouds. He hailed this brilliant "sun of Austerlitz" as a good omen. By 10:00 A.M., the French had pierced the Austro-Russian center, even though the Allies had poured in all their reserves. Napoleon followed with an attack on the north flank and a counterattack on the south flank. The Allies' wings reeled back toward their center, which had already collapsed. The Austro-Russian army was defeated on all fronts. The French had suffered 9,000 casualties, the Austrians and Russians 15,000, with another 11,000 captured. Within 24 hours the Austrians sued for peace, while the Russians hastily returned home. Napoleon had crushed the Third Coalition, with only England remaining undefeated. Austerlitz brought Napoleon Bonaparte to the pinnacle of his career.
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| General Guidance Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets. |
for The Military Order of the World Wars Menu Selections Lone Star Sirloin
# Requested_____ Tilapia Achiote
# Requested_____ Chicken Scaloppini
# Requested_____ All Selections have House salad ---------- 0 ---------- All meals are $25.00 (tax and tip are inclusive) Austin Chapter MOWW |