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Clubs Within the Club
Concert and Cocktails
The Associates hosted one of the Club's favorite events on Thursday, Sept. 24 on the rooftop of the Downtown Clubhouse. Members and guests enjoyed drink specials, hors d’oeuvres, games, live music by the Soulard Island Dudes and fellowship.
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OKTOBERFEST
On Friday, Oct. 9, Members celebrated the fall season with an Oktoberfest on the rooftop of the Downtown Clubhouse garage. This event, cosponsored by the Craft Beer Club and the Mark Twain Society, featured specialty brats and craft beers available for sampling.
Chris McDougal Explains WWII MEMORY PRESERVATION TO Military History Club
The Military History Club has been fortunate to hear many tell their own stories, but such memories are fleeting. For their November meeting, they welcome Chris McDougal, Director of Archives and Library, National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas who will talk about the history of the NMPW’s ongoing mission to preserve and share first-hand memories of World War II. The National Museum of the Pacific War honors the millions of Americans who stood for freedom and democracy and to defeat the enemy in World War II's Asiatic-Pacific Theater World War II. Spread across six acres, the Museum complex encompasses more than 50,000 square feet of indoor exhibits, state-of-the-art archives and collections, and interactive media presentations, in addition to outdoor exhibits and memorials. This meeting will take place on Nov. 24 at the Downtown Clubhouse. Register online.
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Forever Young to be Briefed by General Beckette
E. Tracy Beckette is a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General and Current Governor of the Missouri Athletic Club. He will be speaking to us as the Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army for Eastern Missouri. He will present an overview of the Army’s posture and key initiatives in Modernization and the new Futures Command, Readiness and Training enhancements, as it faces a more complex and demanding strategic environment. Today our military must deal with “Hyper Competition” among nations, requiring that our forces “Overmatch” against “Near-Peer” competitors. Stricter local government restrictions are in place so this luncheon will be RESERVATION ONLY. Since the Town and Country Room has a limit of 50 people, make your reservation now. The deadline is Tuesday, Nov. 17. NO WALK-INS. Enter the Clubhouse through the main entrance on the driveway level. Your temperature will be checked in the lobby. You are required to wear a mask except when eating. Join the FYC on Friday, Nov. 20 at 11:30 a.m. at the West Clubhouse.
CLASSICS AND COCKTAILS: Rolls Up to the West Clubhouse
On Thursday, Oct. 15, the MAC hosted the fourth annual Classics and Cocktails event sponsored by the Business Development Group. This year, the West Clubhouse parking lot featured several unique automobiles from Members’ own collections. Members and guests had the opportunity to mingle, talk to owners and hear each vehicle’s individual stories. Proceeds from the event went toward supporting the MAC’s 2019 Charitable Society for Children’s Charities — Midtown Community Services, Books for STL Kids and the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation.
CWC Meetings
The MAC offers a variety of Clubs Within the Club to bring together members with common interests. Apollos Mondays, 7 p.m., Downtown Book Club Second Thursday of the month, 5:30 p.m., West Business Development Group Third Thursday of the month, 7:15 a.m., Downtown Dance Club Tuesday at 6:45 p.m., Downtown Forever Young Club Third Friday of the month, 11:30 a.m., West Invitational Sanctioned Bridge Second and fourth Tuesdays of the month, 6:15 p.m., West Military History Club Fourth Tuesday of the month, 11:30 a.m., Downtown Toastmasters First and third Wednesdays of the month, 5:30 p.m., Downtown
For more information, visit mac-stl.org or call 314-539-4402.
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Exploration describes the Forever Young before the railroads crossed the Mississippi. Club as activities resumed during a lull in the September found us on a lark to visit the Corona Virus pandemic. With masks in place, new St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station. social distancing kept us 6 feet apart while we What a surprise to discover the multitude enjoyed attractions in St. Louis City. of fish and mammals that count on their August found us at the Missouri History survival for the waters of the Mississippi River Museum in Forest Park discovering the through the Gulf of Mexico and out to sea. HAPPY saga of the middle Mississippi River valley through the mists of time. From before the Mississippian Mound Builders, through the steamboat era, and still today, the river Pink seahorses with leafy appendages serving as camouflage; bright yellow and green poison dart frogs; a bright pink octopus named Millie using her suction-cupped tentacles Summer! and its tributaries have served as a highway moving people, Native American trade goods, trappers transporting fur-filled canoes, to inch along the glass window of her tank; circling stingrays pausing to be petted; turtles swarming to be fed tidbits by visitors; and a harvested crops, fuel, plus more, up and host of other water-dependent creatures were a down the length and breadth of half the delight to see. United States. Seeing the restored pilothouse Although some of us were not thrilled Mark your calendars for the upcoming MAC Happy of the Golden Eagle steamboat took us back with the prospect of petting a lizard or a Hours. In addition to serving up great drink specials, to the heyday of passenger traffic on the river stingray, we will take our grandchildren to the these events are a great opportunity to meet new members and introduce friends and colleagues to the Club. No reservations are required.
Aquarium to do just that. Feeding the turtles from the end of a stick was more our style. On a back-of-the-house tour, we visited the animal quarantine area and learned that the massive filtering system pumps 10 thousand gallons of water a minute to keep the water in the viewing tanks clean and safe for the animals. Visit the Aquarium yourself to learn why the sharks do not eat the rainbow of other fish in their massive tank. Although we are way too young to have ridden the Ferris Wheel at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, we thought how much of a wonder it must have been to those fair- goers as we completed our trip to Union Station with a ride on The Wheel. Twenty stories above St. Louis in an air-conditioned gondola with panoramic windows – that is living high!
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L-R:; PAT REBHOLZ AND JEAN RAYBUCK FEED TURTLES AT THE ST. LOUIS AQUARIUM; ST. LOUIS AQUARIUM CREATURE; MAUREEN WERNER AND BARBARA CONWAY ENJOY A RIDE ON THE FERRIS WHEEL
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