WELCOME REUNION WEEKEND XX!!
We are a group of teachers, administrators and staff, many retired and many still working, who have taught or are working to educate our military children, usually on a military post or base for the United States Government throughout the globe! Since 1946 these brave educators travelled to a distant location, sometimes bringing their own resources, securing a place to live, setting up a classroom, working in an administrative position, and welcoming the military "Dependents" to the first day of school! We now celebrate those years we gave to America's children and our government by coming together somewhere in the United States of America!
COUNTDOWN TO DODDS REUNION XX
NEED SOMEONE TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE!
WE NEED A PHOTOGRAPHER TO TAKE PICTURES OF THE MINI REUNIONS, RECEPTION NIGHT, BANQUET NIGHT, ETC.... Please, will someone help us? We need the photos for our website! Contact Joy Bryant or Richard Smith (brick1@ptd.net)
Your DoDDS Reunion Committee:
Joy Bryant, Co-Chair
Sunny Schwentner, Co-Chair
Patricia Hein, Site Selection, Attendees List
Jackie Gray, Entertainment/Speaker
Chris Kyios, Emcee & Vendors
Joe Condrill, Newsletter Information
DO YOU HAVE A DIGITAL CAMERA????
SOMEONE OUT THERE LIKES TO TAKE PHOTOS... PLEASE CONTACT JOY BRYANT AND OFFER YOUR SERVICES .... WE ESPECIALLY NEED PHOTOS OF THE RECEPTION, THE MAIN DINNER, THE MINI REUNIONS, AND THE LAST BREAKFAST...CANDID SHOTS ARE GREAT...... RICHARD SMITH WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO SEND THEM (ON A CD) SO THAT HE CAN PUT THEM ON THE WEBSITE....SEND TO brick1@ptd.net
Check our "Reunion News" if you would like to have breakfast at Churchill Downs followed by a tour of the Kentucky Derby Museum!
...LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY...
July 10 - 13, 2008
NEW REGISTRATION FORM IS ON LINE!!!!
Registration Fees (per person)
Note: Registration must be postmarked by March 31. After that postmark date the registration fee will go to $105.00
Early registration: Dec. 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008 $95.00
April 1, 2008 - July 1, 2008 $105.00
After July 1, 2008, will be "At the Door" for $120.00. Registration MUST be Received NO LATER than July 1, 2008 to guarantee banquet seating. After July 1, seating will be "as space is available".
NO REFUNDS AFTER July 1, 2008
Mail registration form and check (no credit cards) made out to
DODDS REUNION XX
and mail to:
Joy Bryant
DoDDS Reunion XX
3621 Pottsboro Road #103
Denison, TX 75020
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Tentative Schedule Of Events
(subject to change)
For event locations, see hotel bulletin boards and DoDDS signs.
Registration:
Note: There will be no registration until Thursday per contract with the hotel.
July 10, Thursday:
10:00 A.M.- Vendors set up
12:00. - 5 P.M. Hospitality Room
9 A.M. - 5 P.M. Registration
6 P.M. - 8 P.M. Welcome Reception, heavy hors d'oeuvres, cash bar
July 11, Friday:
8 A.M. - 5 P.M Hospitality Room
9 A.M. - 5 P.M. Registration
9 A.M. AOSHS Annual Meeting
11 A.M. Travel Talk With Joe Condrill
Noon - 6 P.M. Mini Reunions
July 12, Saturday
8 A.M. - 3 P.M. Hospitality room
5 P.M. - 6 P.M. Late Registration
6 P.M. - 7 P.M. Cocktail Reception (Cash Bar)
7 P.M. Dinner With Program To Follow
Major General Thomas P. Bostick will be the guest speaker.
July 13, Sunday
8 A.M. - 10 A.M. Breakfast with Omelette Station
Help Needed!!!! We need volunteers for the following:
Mini Reunions.....Registrations...Hospitality Room/Vendors
Please contact Joy Bryant at overcbrat@aol.com
Calling in any photos and newspaper articles: Joy Bryant is accepting any photos and newspaper articles related to DoDDS and its teachers to place on "The Picture Board" during the reunion in Louisville. Please send them to Joy Bryant at the Registration form address. If you have a scanner, you can scan and save your photos. I went to Walmart.com and ordered my prints online and picked them up at the store later. Two 5 x 7 prints cost only $0.58!
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Hotel Reservations
Hotel Room Reservation Deadline is May 28, 2008
Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel
280 West Jefferson Street
Louisville, KY 40202
Call 1-800-228-9290 (toll free reservations)
or
1-502-627-5045 (direct)
Simply identify yourself as being with the Department of Defense Schools Educators Group and you will receive the $92.00 (up to four in a room) rate. Room rates are good from Wednesday July 9th to Monday July 14th. Reservations are to be made directly with the hotel.
Hotel Parking: On site parking for group discount at $9.00 a day.
The brand new Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel is the city's newest grand tradition for business events, stylish social gatherings or weekend escapes. The hotel is of contemporary design and features 616 guest rooms and suites, 2 concierge levels and 50,000 sq. ft. of meeting space, this premier convention hotel provides a walkway connection to the Kentucky International Convention Centre and Louisville's bustling new fourth Street Live district.
If you have any questions please contact
email: overcbrat@aol.com
telephone: 903-465-7271 between 8 P.M. CST and 11 P.M. CST only
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Making travel arrangements for the DoDDS reunion …
http://www.flylouisville.com/flights/airlines.asp
Louisville International Airport’s low fares and quality service routinely attract passengers from a 200-mile radius of the City. The airport now has nonstop service to 29 destinations and convenient connections to cities worldwide.
American Airlines/American Eagle
Flight status: 1-800-223-5436
Reservations: 1-800-433-7300
Baggage assistance: 1-502-363-8780
Customer Relations: 1-817-967-2000
Continental Express
Flight status: 1-800-784-4444
Reservations: 1-800-525-0280
Baggage assistance: 1-800-335-2247
Customer Relations: 1-800-932-2732
Delta Air Lines/Delta Connection
Flight status: 1-800-325-1999
Reservations: 1-800-221-1212
Baggage assistance: 1-800-325-8224
Customer Relations: 1-404-715-1450
Frontier Airlines
Flight status: 1-800-432-1359
Reservations: 1-800-432-1359
Baggage assistance: 1-800-432-1359
Customer Relations: 1-720-374-4639
Midwest/Midwest Connect (Skyway)
Flight status: 1-800-452-2022
Reservations: 1-800-452-2022
Baggage assistance: 1-502-363-8780
Customer Relations: 1-800-452-2022
Northwest/Northwest Airlink
Flight status: 1-800-441-1818
Reservations: 1-800-225-2525
Baggage assistance: 1-800-745-9798
Customer Relations: 1-701-420-6282
Southwest
Flight status: 1-800-435-9792
Reservations: 1-800-435-9792
Baggage assistance: 1-502-367-0025
Customer Relations: 1-214-792-4223
United Express
Flight status: 1-800-824-6200
Reservations: 1-800-241-6522
Baggage assistance: 1-800-221-6903
Customer Relations: 1-877-228-1327
US Airways Express
Flight status: 1-800-943-5436
Reservations: 1-800-428-4322
Baggage assistance: 1-502-364-4660
Customer Relations: 1-866-523-5333
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Louisville International Airport http://www.flylouisville.com
Ground Transportation Options
Note: I haven't found any private shuttle companies as we had at other reunions. I have been informed by the Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau that they have a Blue Shuttle but it no longer picks up at the airport. You may have to rely on the bus, taxi, or a limo service. The Cosmopolitan Limousine advertises vans, sedans, limousines, and buses. Look below.
Note: Marriott Louisville Downtown has no shuttle to the hotel!
GROUND TRANSPORTATION to DOWNTOWN HOTELS
AVAILABLE OUTSIDE BAGGAGE CLAIM
NOTE: Prices listed are for transportation to Louisville Downtown Hotels only. Other destinations will be an additional charge.
Taxi— $18.70 for up to 4 riders; the 5th and 6th riders are an additional $3 each.
TARC (City Bus – Bus stop is next to RED pillar that says BUS.) $1.25 per person (Note: You must have the exact change to board the bus.)
TARC Bus Schedule |
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Weekdays |
Weekends & Holidays |
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5:09 am |
12:11 pm |
5:27 pm |
7:10 am |
4:13 pm |
6:08 am |
1:21 pm |
6:03 pm |
8:10 am |
5:28 pm |
7:17 am |
2:01 pm |
6:49 pm |
9:09 am |
6:44 pm |
7:47 am |
2:36 pm |
7:59 pm |
10:23 am |
8:00 pm |
8:17 am |
3:11 pm |
9:09 pm |
11:33 am |
9:10 pm |
8:51 am |
3:45 pm |
10:19 pm |
12:43 pm |
10:15 pm |
9:51 am |
4:20 pm |
11:14 pm |
1:53 pm |
11:15 pm |
11:01 am |
4:50 pm |
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3:03 pm |
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Be wary of transportation companies and drivers not listed here as they may be operating on-airport illegally.
Courtesy Shuttles
Several hotels/motels provide direct, free phone service for reservations and/or van service to/from the airport. They are listed below. Hotel/Motel vans are parked to the right of the taxi stand on the green curb.
Dial Hotels/Motel
20 Comfort Suites Louisville Airport
25 Country Inn & Suites
16 Courtyard Marriott Downtown
24 Courtyard Marriott-Louisville Airport
02 Executive Inn
04 Calt House (No Shuttle)
13 Hampton Inn
23 Hampton Inn Downtown
15 Hilton Garden Inn Louisville Airport
12 Holiday Inn Airport East
06 Holiday Inn Airport South
23 Holiday Inn Hurstbourne
15 Holiday Inn Louisville Downtown
17 Jameson Inn Louisville Airport South
08 Marriott Louisville Downtown (No Shuttle)
11 Quality Inn & Suites
14 Residence Inn Marrriott Louisville Airport
07 Sleep Inn
05 Super 8 Motel
Disability Transportation Services
Ready Cab (502) 417-4406
Yellow Cab (502) 636-5511
Alamo Car Rental 1-800-462-5266
Avis Car Rental 1-800-331-1212
Budget Car Rental 1-800-524-0700
Dollar Car Rental 1-800-800-3665
Enterprise Car Rental 1-800-261-7331
Hertz Car Rental 1-800-654-3131
National Car Rental 1-800-227-7368
Thrifty Car Rental 1-800-847-4389
City Buses
Transit Authority of River City (TARC) buses service the airport. Free TARC schedules are available at the airport information booth. You must have the correct change to ride TARC.
Limousines
Pre-arranged pick up on a specific day and time and for a specific person
Ambassador/Capital Limousine (502) 964-7139
Community/Aztecv (502) 499-4899
Cosmopolitan Limousine (502) 634-5466 - specializing in chauffeured transportation - vans, sedans, limousines & buses. www.loutrans.com
Person to Person (502) 966-3256
R & R Limousine (502) 957-4254
Sandollar Limousine (502) 366-2628
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Jerry Abramson, Mayor of Louisville
James T. Wood, President & CEO, Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau
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A special thanks to "Josh", my next-door-neighbor, who is the real brains
behind this website!
