Ashland Retiree Club Activities
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Ashland Retiree's will tour the Houston Air Traffic Control Center. Arrival time at the center is 10:30 a.m. The Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) is one of twenty control centers in the United States and is responsible for approximately 168,000 square miles of airspace encompassing the southern half of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
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Virtual Houston ARTCC
Lunch at the Potatoe Patch is at your cost.
Our bus will leave from the Memorial City Shopping Center near the JC Penney Parking Garage at 9:30 a.m.
Contact Bill Mize 713-664-9372
ARCOT will eat at The Briar Club Restaurant. We will drive to 2603 Timmons for our cash bar at 11:30 am. Lunch is served at 12 noon. The cost will be $22.00/pp and our guest speaker, Sgt. Mike Mize, is Commander of Galveston County Auto Crime Task Force talking about auto crime.
This meeting has election of Officers and Directors for the year starting July 1, 2008. Please try to attend this important meeting.
Contact Bill Mize 713-664-9372
The board will decide on an appropiate summer bus trip.
The Chinese Community Center is a possibility for a tour of Houston Chinatown.
Our bus will leave from the Memorial City Shopping Center near the JC Penney Parking Garage.
Contact Bill Mize 713-664-9372
Our bus will leave from the Memorial City Shopping Center near the JC Penney Parking Garage.
Contact Bill Mize 713-664-9372
The board will decide on an appropiate summer bus trip.
Invite your friends and neighbors to attend any of our activities. We will have only one activity per quarter this year plus our business luncheon. You must be a minimum of 50 years old to ride the free bus provided by Harris County. Most of our friends and neighbors meet that requirement.
Give Carol Ritter a call with your ideas at 281-485-2375
ARCOT RR trip on June 16, 2005.
When you visit Austin, stop by the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art. Jack has been a member of our club since its founding and retired as the CEO of Scurlock Permian division of Ashland Inc. Jack Blanton became president of Scurlock Oil Company in 1958. Plains All American Pipeline acquired Scurlock Permian from Ashland in 1999. Scurlock Permian was one of the oldest and most respected gathering and marketing companies in the crude oil industry.
Grand opening of the new Blanton Museum of Art at Congress Avenue and MLK Blvd is set for April 26-27, 2006. The new facility will comprise two buildings that face each other across an open pedestrian passageway and civic plaza that will serve as a gathering place for both students and the public.
To the east, the 105,000 square foot Gallery Building will be the larger of the two buildings, housing exhibition galleries, the Print and Drawing Study Center, and all collection support areas. Temporary exhibitions will take place on the ground floor, and the second floor will be dedicated to the display of the Blanton’s permanent collection, with works of art that span the history of Western civilization. The paintings, sculptures, installations, and works on paper will be on view within suites of comfortable, light-filled galleries arranged to guide visitors pleasantly through the art collection. The galleries will surround a beautiful, skylit atrium with 40-foot ceilings, and two window-lined rotundas will provide places to rest, peruse resource materials about the art on view, or enjoy a quiet contemplative moment.
Across a grand, open plaza that serves as a pedestrian entry to the UT Austin campus, the 50,000 square foot Education, Visitor Services, and Administration Building, will serve as the hub of educational and social activities, with a 299-seat auditorium, a sixty-seat lecture hall, and several classrooms. This building will also house a café and bookstore, in addition to Museum staff offices.
Let me hear your ideas for future trips for our Ashland Retiree group.
Contact Bill Mize 713-664-9372
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