Base Meeting and Events
| Submarine Birthday Dinner (and related activities) April 10th 2010 Historic 1929 Hotel Seville in downtown Harrison April 11, 2010 will be the 110th Birthday of the US Submarine Service. To celebrate the birthday, and to commemorate the service of those who have gone before us, Razorback Base has invited the commanders of the USS Snook Base, Twin Lakes Base and Ozark Runner Base to have their members join us for a combined base Submarine Birthday Dinner in Harrison, Arkansas. Additionally, Frank Hampson (base member that lives in Harrison) arranged various other activities for attendees for Friday through Monday for those of you that may want to make it a longer weekend patrol. It is important that you contact us as soon as you can so we can determine the number that will attend the various events. IMPORTANT Contact the hotel at 870-741-2321 to make your room reservation. See details below. Contact Greg Schwerman (501-804-0386, gschwerman@suddenlink.net) to let him know you are attending the dinner. Let him know your dinner choice, and be sure to send him a check for the meals. Contact Frank Hampson (870-365-0909, fhampson@windstream.net) to let him know which of the activities noted below that you want to participate in. He needs a head count as soon as possible. Dinner: Saturday, April 10, 1800 - 2200 Terrazzo Dining Hall Hotel Seville Harrison, Arkansas Party or Dress attire Cash bar in the room $14 per Person Choice of: Lemon Pepper Chicken with Red Skinned Mashed Potatoes and Honey Dill Carrots Beef Brisket with Twice Baked Potatoes and Green Beans. (Both include Dinner Salad, Rolls, Dessert, Coffee and Tea) Please send your check for dinner to Greg Schwerman, 2 Sparrow Court, Pottsville, AR 72858. Be sure to indicate your choice of meal - Beef or Chicken. Call Greg if you have questions 501-804-0386 ***Please no calls after 2100*** Hotel: The Hotel Seville has agreed to give us a 20% discount on rooms for this event. We have reserved a block of 17 rooms, 5 King Suites and 12 Historic Queen rooms, with the option to add more if needed. http://www.hotelseville.com Rooms Contact the hotel at 870-741-2321 to make reservations. When making your reservation, request the Submarine Veterans Rate to receive the discount. The Queen rooms will be $59.25 plus taxes and the King Suites will be $81.75 plus taxes. If you think you will be attending, please reserve your room early so we will know if we need to add more rooms to ensure everyone is able to stay at the hotel. The discounted room rate also applies to Friday if you choose to stay for the weekend. Associated Activities: FRIDAY Bowling Friday Evening Friday evening April 9th at the Cotton Bowl Bowling Lanes at 1800 hrs. Everybody will bowl the first game starting at 1830 hrs to warm up. The second game will be for the highest scores for each base. The pot will be split in half. The highest scoring bowler will take home (to and for his base) his winnings. The base with the highest average will take home the other half of the pot for their base treasury. Cost is $2.75 /person/game and bowling shoes are $1.50/person. We have reserved 6 lanes and Frank needs conformation of attendees ASAP in case he needs to alter the reservations. Management recommends a maximum of six bowlers per lane. Friday nights at 1900 hrs becomes very busy this time of year. After the tournament from there, we will go to and check into the Hotel Seville for and evening of sea stories and visiting. SATURDAY Continental Breakfast Saturday Morning Saturday the 10th we will have a continental breakfast at the hotel or on the square at the Town House Cafe (200 yards south) from 0715- 0845 hrs. Susan Bower, Manager of the Town House Cafe will be offering those of us eating Saturday morning a breakfast menu on the square before we begin our day of seeing films (next door) at the Lyric Theater. She also will be preparing our 7:30 AM buffet breakfast ($8.00) Sunday morning before heading off to Branson for the day. “Film Fest” Saturday Morning At 0845 we will go next door to the Lyric Theater and hear from Vive Allen, Director of the Ozark Arts Council and manager of the Lyric Theater. She will briefly address our group at 0900 about the history of the theater. Next a local historian will give a brief history of how Harrison came to be. Then, you will see two films. The first is The River Flows. It is just under 1 hour. Next is the historical documentary about the Mountain Meadow Massacre. Burying The Past is 86 minutes long. We have asked Mrs. Allen to place a donation box at the entrance of the theater to help out the Ozark Art Council in there many civic efforts, especially this historic theater's operation. Boone County Heritage Museum Saturday Morning Plans are to have a trolley at the front door of the theater to transport some of the slow movers three blocks up the street to the Boone County Heritage Museum, which is the old refurbished three story high school building. Roz Slavik, museum Director, will open it for 2-3 hours especially for our group. Cost of the museum visit is $2.00 per person, with donations gladly accepted. (To really study the items in the museum it would take about two days.) Shopping at Lunch Time Saturday Morning to Early Afternoon After the museum visit, we all will walk back into the heart of the downtown area and begin a world class shopping spree. Among all of the nice shops, many which will be of interest to the ladies, there are six flea market shops within walking distance of the square, not to mention cafes and coffee shops. · For those interested in a couple of side trips, some can drive 6 miles down Hwy 7 to the Mystic Caverns. There are two caves next to each other. Tour one for $13 or both for $15. Both are spectacular and it takes about 45 minutes for each cavern tour. · For those of you that may be interested, Vive Allen can set up a tour of Twelve Oaks Estate, ca. 1922. It is a magnificent National Historic Registered southern mansion, also a short distance down Hwy 7 south. A group tour can be set up early Saturday morning while at the Lyric. Plans are to return to the hotel about 1700 for the 1800 - 2100 birthday celebration at the Seville. After the dinner we will go into the lounge for some world class sea stories and reunion of Sub Vets. SUNDAY Continental Breakfast Sunday Morning Continental Breakfast at the hotel or on the square at the Town House Cafe. The cafe buffet at $8.00 will be from 0715-0900 hrs. Since we will have the cafe all to ourselves, a meeting/briefing will be conducted to discuss the day’s activities and plans before heading off to Branson for the day. If the Monday morning Buffalo River water is suitable for novice canoers, we will go over the details of that trip. Branson Side Trip Sunday mid-morning (after checkout) we will caravan out of Harrison, up to Branson Landing, a large shopping mall on the north bank of Lake Taneycomo. Those wanting to, can be dropped off on the west end at Bass Pro and start shopping east toward Belk's Department Store which is at the other end. Then, the remaining group will caravan through Old Branson, west on Hwy 76 to the Veterans Memorial Museum. Manager June Tillis, Director of Sales, has made us a special group price of $10.00/person for at least 15 in the group. We should get there about 11-1200 hrs., and it will take about 2 plus hours to go through it. It has two real surprises. One is wall to wall printed lists of all soldiers that have died in war and they have a large wall display of every patch worn by a submariner. You will be very impressed by the way they have displayed items - guns uniforms, combat gear, and miscellaneous equipment. They have displays of items from all of the wars we have waged. Next we will go back to Branson Landing and park at the east end by Belk's and rendezvous with the shoppers we dropped off earlier. The Branson Belle has a dinner cruise on Table Rock Lake at 1600 hrs. It cruises for two hours, has a very nice dinner and a 45 minute stage show. Cost is $60/person. Reservations are required at 417-225-0222. MONDAY Buffalo River Float Those wanting to do a guided day float on the Buffalo River Monday April 12th will return to Harrison AR and we will discuss in detail the plans for that part of the weekend events. Canoe rentals are $40 and include 2 paddles and 2 life jackets. Shuttle service is $5/driver. Weather permitting, the float will be 8 or 11 miles and will start at Pruitt. There is a comedy play at the Lyric Theater Sunday night. Those going canoeing Monday may to attend this event. It starts at 7:30 p.m. and seating is $4 or $10. |
| Our next base Meeting will be Saturday 27 March at 1600 Little Rock American Legion Post 1 315 East Capital Little Rock. Dinner will be served after the meeting. E-board will meet at 1500. |