EASA Southwestern Chapter
Fall Meeting...October 2,3,4, 2014
Bossier City, LA
Please join all your EASA friends for a few days of fun & relaxation
accompanied by great technical sessions, social events and tours!
Shreveport-Bossier City (Louisiana's Other Side) is situated on the Red River in northwest Louisiana.
This fun destination offers Vegas-style gaming, great dining experiences, lots of live music and attractions.
You’ll enjoy a unique combination of two great American heritages: a little Cajun, and since it’s less
than 15 minutes from the Texas border, it’s also a little Lone Star.
Shreveport-Bossier boasts elegant Southern charm and a relaxed attitude that suggests you
kick your boots off and stay a while.
You can step out of the hotel and walk the famed Louisiana
Boardwalk. A beautiful and stylish shopping area that’s a
perfect place to enjoy a meal or a delightful coffee in a chic
outdoor café. Or if you prefer, a pre-performance dinner and
drinks in a romantic bistro overlooking the river that glows
with the reflection of sparkling lights. Relaxed and sprawling,
with something for everyone, the Boardwalk is the largest
center for stores, art, entertainment and dining, in all of
Louisiana. The Boardwalk hosts over 60 outlet stores and
restaurants, as well as a major movie theater.
At the end of the Boardwalk is Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville Resort Casino.
This is a newly opened beautiful casino providing you with a clean,
comfortable atmosphere and a memorable entertainment experience.
It offers the convenience of single level gaming with more than 1300 slot
machines and 46 game tables.
Our meeting will be held at:
Courtyard by Marriott
(Bossier City Boardwalk)
100 Boardwalk Blvd.,
Bossier City, LA 71111.
Tel: 318.742.8300
The EASA rate is $124 single/$129 double (including breakfast).
Reservations are open now and the cut-off date is FIRM on September 18, 2014.
Please make your room reservations by calling 318.742.8300.
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
(Exact times and locations will be in your registration packs)
Wednesday, Oct 1, 2014
5:00pm
Early arrivals. Registration packets in the lobby
Dinner on your own
Thursday, Oct 2, 2014
6:30am
Optional activity: GOLF and lunch. Meet in the lobby and car pool to
the StoneBridge Golf Club. StoneBridge features a beautiful 18-hole
championship golf course, designed by PGA Tour professional
Fred Couples and award-winning architect Gene Bates. It winds through
a natural setting of mature oaks, small lakes, and protected wetlands.
Collared shirt and soft spikes required.
6:30am—5:00pm
Meeting Registration—registration packets will be in the lobby
9:30am—??
Optional activity: Meet in the lobby and carpool over the river to the Louisiana Sci-Port.
This hands-on science center is for those who love adventure. With more than 290 hands-on science and math exhibits, a space planetarium, gift shop, a cafe and domed IMAX Theater (the only
IMAX in LA), you can spend a few hours or an entire day learning and exploring. www.sciport.org
Admission
Seniors (60+)
Sci-port only—$13
Sci-port only—$10
3:00pm–5:00pm
Board of Directors Meeting
6:30pm—8:30pm
Welcome Reception
Vendor Table Tops Displays
Open bar and refreshments
Door Prizes
9:00pm
Hospitality
IMAX only—$9.50
IMAX only—$8
Friday, Oct 3, 2014
8:30am to 10:00am
General Business meeting
10:30am-5:00pm
Technical Tours
1. Visit and tour EASA member shop—Integrated Power Services
Shreveport Service Center.
The IPS Shreveport Service Center specializes in the service and repair of
process-critical electric motors, generators and mechanical equipment for nuclear power and fossil fuel plants, paper mills, refineries, chemical plants and
aggregate & cement.
2. Group lunch at a local restaurant.
3. Tour the McNeil Street pump station. A19th century engineering marvel
with a recently restored working 1920 flywheel. This 1887 waterworks plant
was the last known steam-powered water plant in the USA when its engines
were finally retired in 1980. It is now listed as an historic landmark.
4. A great way to finish out the day...visiting the Great Raft Brewing company
and tasting room. You’ll get to taste beer samples and take home a souvenir mug.
In October, 2013, Great Raft sold the first “local” beer in Shreveport since Prohibition.
Combo—$18
Combo—$13
10:00am—4:30pm
Alternate Activity - History, food and cruisin’
Our guided tour will start with a drive around Riverfront park and through the historic district. You will pass by the Shreveport
Historical Auditorium. Built in the 1920s, this building was where Elvis Presley first performed on stage.
We will then stop at the Logan mansion, a magnificent 1897 Queen Anne Victorian home, for a
narrated tour complete with ghost stories.
Is the Logan Mansion really haunted? legends tell us that in 1904 a young neighbor of the Logan's,
eleven year-old Theodora Hunt, came to the house, went to the attic and leapt to her death from a
front window! There are many, stories of sighting a little girl in the house; objects that have moved;
disembodied footsteps; a screen door that latches itself (and unlatches itself and opens), and much
more. The LeBrun's now keep a log of the strange happenings in their home and invite you to hear
the stories and decide for yourself...Is the Logan Mansion really haunted?
Our next stop will be for a delicious lunch at the elegant Twenty-Four-Thirty-Nine Fairfield Bed & Breakfast, circa 1905, situated in the historical district on a beautiful avenue of mansions and fine homes built
around the turn of the century.
The property has landscaped English rose and herb gardens, a Victorian swing, gazebo and water
fountain nestled among the oak trees.
Then to finish out our afternoon, we will board the Spirit of the Red River...for a sight seeing cruise
on the Red River that will take us for a relaxing one hour boat ride and have us back at the hotel by
around 4:30pm!
6:30pm
Free time for dinner and entertainment on your own
9:30pm
Hospitality
Saturday, Oct 4, 2014
8:30am – 2:30pm
Technical Session and lunch: We are pleased to sponsor EASA’s Pump & Vibration
Specialist, Gene Vogel, to present a combined seminar. This is a great opportunity for
member shops to get up to date information and for local shops to send shop personnel
for this in-depth training and lunch for only $75 each.
1. Balancing Tips (in house and on-site): How to set up a balancing tolerance. Balancing machine set up, special fixtures
and choice balancing speeds. When to use single-plane, two-plane or static-couple methods. The ABCs of calculating balance corrections.
2. Vibration Analysis: Basic mounting practices for testing, intro to NEMA & ISO tolerances, basic vibration instruments &
analysis techniques, troubleshooting best practices, tips & basic procedures, resonance fundamentals.
3. Pump Curves/Applications: Types of Rotodynamic pumps, impellers and centrifugal action, specific speed, cavitation,
head & pressure, flow, efficiency and power, reading pump curve data, pump selection, Affinity laws & variable speed, troubleshooting.
10:00am—2:30pm
Alternate Activity—wandering and shopping through the Boardwalk and group lunch.
2:30pm
Free time to relax with EASA friends by the pool, head for a casino or explore on your own.
Anyone brave enough for a ghost tour after dinner?
http://shrevetownghostwalk.com/index.php/shreve-town-ghost-walk
Don’t forget
September 18th—the deadline for hotel reservations, convention registrations and payments
Special note:
If you’re driving West to Texas after the meeting we recommend you take the time to stop and take a tour of Caddo Lake
(the only natural lake in all of Texas). You will glide almost silently along Caddo Lake's Big Cypress Bayou aboard the
Graceful Ghost, a replica of an 1800's era steamboat. The "Graceful Ghost" is a live steam driven vessel with a working paddle-wheel and wood fired boiler. Sit back and enjoy the ride as you watch the diverse wildlife and the many species of
aquatic plants inhabiting Caddo Lake. We will take you on a timeless journey among majestic cypress trees draped in
stately, Spanish moss. Check the schedule at http://gracefulghost.com/activities/paddle-wheel-steamboat.html
EASA Southwestern Chapter
Fall, 2014 Meeting Registration—Bossier City, LA
Please fill out this form completely and mail with your check (we can’t take credit cards) payable to:
EASA Southwestern Chapter
c/o Diane Werling, Executive Secretary
1913 Jasmine Lane, Plano, TX 75074 (NOTE CHANGE OF ADDRESS)
MEETING REGISTRATION
Shop Members, spouses...........................$195 per person**
**Shop Members may deduct $10 per person if postmarked before September 18
Affiliates, vendors, guests………….$195 per person
Sponsor……………………………$395 (see “Sponsors” below)
Saturday only Technical Sessions & Lunch (for local shop personnel)………$75 per person
Member:_____________________________________Spouse/Guest:(if attending)_______________________________
Company:_______________________________________________City:_______________________________St:_____
Email (needed for confirmation):__________________________________________Tel:_______________________
Sponsors: A sponsorship is $395 net. It includes one full meeting registration and a table top display at the
Opening Welcome reception. Please check here if you’d like to sponsor: ______If you’re bringing an extra person for
the Table Tops Reception only, please enter their name(s) here ___________________________________and add $75 ea.
The following events are included in your full registration. To help us have adequate space, save cost and
reduce waste, please only check off the events you WILL ATTEND
Thursday, October 2:
_____Welcome Reception & Sponsor Table-Top Display
Friday, October 2:
_____General meeting (spouses & affiliates welcome)
_____Technical Tours & Lunch
_____Alternate—History, food and cruisin”
Saturday, October 4:
_____EASA Technical Sessions & Lunch
_____1/2 Day Technical Session and Lunch only (for local shop personnel).
Note: If you’re leaving right after the sessions and skipping lunch please check here _____
_____Alternate—explore the boardwalk and group lunch.
OPTIONAL EVENTS:
Thursday: Golf/Lunch _____Add $85pp
Your Handicap? Or last score______
Thursday: Tour of Sci-Port/IMAX/Lunch ______Pay there
Your Meeting Registration and Hotel Reservations are due by September 18
EASA RATE IS $124 single/$129 double – call 318.742.8300 for reservations
If you have Questions, please contact Diane Werling via e-mail at [email protected] or call 214.783.2372