The Sacramento Chapter has three regular monthly events. These are informal and the telling of tales is encouraged.

BREAKFAST GATHERINGS are being held the first FRIDAY of the month, 7:30-8:45 AM at: Black Bear Diner,  7935 Madison Ave, Citrus Heights, CA, 95610 , Phone: (916) 534-7625. These are informal, meet, chat, a few announcements, breakfast, and on our way. Attendance ranges from 4-12 people.

LUNCH GATHERINGS are held the 2nd TUESDAY of the month, 11:30-12:30am.  Brookfield’s, 4343 Madison Ave, Sacramento, CA 95842 (Hwy 80 & Madison)

HAPPY HOUR  are on the Third THURSDAY of each month, 5:00-7:00 PM, Clubhouse 56, 723 56th Street, Sacramento

Starting in 2022, Meetings will be held on the first Friday of the month at breakfast at Black Bear Diner on Madison:

The April 2022 Meeting will be held on FRIDAY,  April 1, at 0730 and wrap up by 0830

Address:

Black Bear Diner

7935 Madison Ave.

Citrus Heights, CA 95610

Phone: (916) 534-7625

For the month of November 2021 we  will meet on Thursday November 4,  for BREAKFAST at 0730 at the Black Bear Diner, 7935 Madison Ave. Near the intersection of Madison and Sunrise.

Think about becoming active in chapter events this year.

Denny Joyce ’61

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2021 Meetings and BREAKFAST will for November 4, 2021 be held at 0730 at: Black Bear Diner,   7935 Madison Ave, Citrus Heights, CA, 95610 , Phone: (916) 534-7625. We are trying the breakfast meeting time to try to attract the classes who are still working.

2021 Football Viewing now (November 2021) at Players Sports Pub & Grill, 4060 Sunrise Blvd, Fair Oaks, CA, 95628, Phone: (916) 967-8492. However, No viewing this week since the game is on Friday at 4:30 PM.

The past year has been an extended dark ages.  Our football TV viewing days with the parents were sparse and the covid screwed up our first Thursday of the month lunch meetings.  Now that we see light at the end of the tunnel, it may be time to look over the organization of the chapter and develop a five year plan for the future.  Our regular members are loyal but are “getting long in the tooth” and the 60’s dominate.

I have been Sacramento Chapter President for 18 years and I am thinking it is time to pass on the job and at the same time generate some activity from the younger classes.  Our parents club rocks and we enjoy their company.  Our next real event  is on June 6th when we recognize the incoming plebes and their families. Save the date and email me if you are interested and I will forward details.  We have a tent at the Dante Club to accommodate a larger gathering.

I am off to my summer cottage for the next two weeks.  Send me an email if you are interested in chapter leadership or becoming more active.

Denny ’61

Link to the Break It Down Show Podcast of John McKay & Tim Macintosh-Smith:

John McKay has done several other podcasts on subjects as diverse as NATO in the former Yugoslavia; growing up in Latin America; Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFAB), among others.
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The photo below is a link to John McKay’s review of Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s superb Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (2019), published in “The American Conservative”(TAC) magazine:

The Enigma of the Arab World

Col John McKay USMC (Ret) ’68 speech to Gold Star Families was published in the November 2019 Marine Corps Gazette. Snapshot of the article through link shown below. Or go to the Marine Corp Gazette to see the original copy.

McKay Speech

Subject: Robert Brinzer USNA ‘01

For those of you in the Renaissance Society, Robert Brinzer, ’01, will speak on Friday, November 8, as part of the Speaker Series on campus at California State University Sacramento. The series is presented each Friday, 1000-1130, in Alpine Hall, Room 204.

If you’re not a member or perhaps aren’t even aware of the Renaissance Society, you can obtain information about it at https://www.csus.edu/org/rensoc/

Following is the blurb in the online course listing.

Nov. 8: Robert Brinzer, US Navy SEAL

Robert is a Navy SEAL veteran with degrees from the U.S. Naval Academy and the George Washington University. Robert left the Navy in 2006 and now calls Sacramento home. He will talk about his SEAL training and his transition to civilian life.

Dave McKie ‘66

Football up, the chapter is happy. Every week we go to Players Sports Bar on Sunrise below Fair Oaks and enjoy the game with our parents club. Army alums will join us again for the big game on December 14th.

Thanks to Frank Blake ’68 we now have a website here on the national chapter.

Our monthly meetings have been moving around as it seems as soon as we choose one restaurant, it closes. Our next meeting on first Thursday of the month (Nov 7th) at 1130 will be at Brookfields 4343 Madison Ave.

Finally, it is dues time again. Send your $20 to Jack Everett ’64 at 1840 Starview Lane, Lincoln Ca 95648.

BEAT ARMY

Denny Joyce ’61

September 26, 2019

We seem to be bringing bad luck to our monthly meeting venues.  First China Buffet closes and we move to Marie Callender’s and they close.  On a trial basis Corky Guenter ’61 has set us up to meet October 3rd at our usual 1130 time at the Folsom Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Hall, located at 1300 Forest Street in Folsom.  Light lunch and private room.

We continue to watch football with the parents club at Players Sports Bar on Sunrise just of south Fair Oaks.  good food and good company.  As usual, the Air Force gang will join us on the 5th of October.

The chapter also now has a Facebook page that we are starting to use to put out the word. (A link is provided under ‘External Links’)

Beat Army

Denny Joyce’61