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Purchase your tickets for CA Sponsored Outings at OUTINGS
www.sctexas.org or at the Member Services Office.
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ambulances, and medical helicopters. A Medal of Honor Walk
honors 52 Medical Corp recipients, including Dr. Mary Walker,
the only woman to earn this award.

After lunch on your own at Rudy’s Bar-B-Q, we are off to San
Marcos for some Air Force history.

During World War II, the San Marcos Army Air Field housed a
navigator training school, now home to the Central Texas Wing of
the Commemorative Air Force and their vintage aircraft museum.
The display includes fourteen historic aircraft, including a B-25
Mitchell bomber and a P-39 Airacobra pursuit plane; aviation
memorabilia; and replicas of a Japanese torpedo bomber and a
Zero fighter, both flown in the movie “Tora! Tora! Tora!” One
exhibit displays the B-25 seat back of Lt. Col. Jimmie Doolittle,
the legendary pilot who led America’s first attack on the Japanese
mainland.

Note: An email will be sent 2 weeks prior to this trip
requesting your driver’s license information for entry
onto the army base.

Ticket cost includes transportation and museum fees.

Volunteer Trip Leader: Jerilee Prather

Women of Texas History Tour – Austin

Lunch – The Carillon
Wednesday, January 27, $55 pp
Depart SCPL 8:30 a.m.; Return 3:30 p.m.

Learn the remarkable history
of several special Texas women. Though most
of them may be relatively unknown, they forged
Texas history, and these women will enchant
you. We will begin with a private tour in the State Capitol as we
learn about these women, their lives, what they did for Texas
and how they survived in this rugged land. After our tour, we
will head over to the Texas Archives to learn about another
famous lady.

Notes: There is a long walk from the street to the Capitol,
and the tour is one hour in length, all standing and
walking. Then we must walk back to the bus. Please be
aware of the length of this tour. Also, we must go through
security to enter the Capitol.

After our tours, we are off to lunch at the Carillon. You will not go
away hungry from their luncheon buffet, complete with everything
imaginable including salads, soups, entrees and dessert.

We will also visit the former studio and portrait collection of
Elisabet Ney, the German born 19th century sculptor, whose
pieces grace the halls of famous buildings. When she and her
husband moved to Texas she became a pioneer for art.

Ticket cost includes transportation in small bus (a potentially
bumpy ride), exhibit entrance fees, and lunch.

Volunteer Trip Leader: Ellen Mire

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