SAVE THE DATE!

Saturday February 15, 2020

$46 per person

Dinner/Dance/Unlimited Presenter’s Sessions

Unlimited Presentations Only: $20 per person

Sutlers/ Federal Rebels/ 50-50 Raffle/ 32nd Anniversary Cake/73rd OVI Brass Band

New Location! Upscale & Luxurious

Sheraton Suites 1989 Front Street Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 44221

CASH BAR WILL BE OPEN 5:00 pm – 12:00 am Tickets can be purchased for wine, mixed drinks, sodas, and beer Location: Riverfront Ballroom until 6:00 pm Dinner Resuming at 10:00 pm during Afterglow

STATE LAW: NO OUTSIDE FOOD OR DRINKS PERMITTED IN BALLROOM & CASCADE OVERLOOK

Hotel Information: If you are told there are no rooms left, please call Darcy 330-550-0285 or Stacey (Sheraton) 330-929-3000 More rooms must be unblocked to accommodate our attendees at the special rate of $110 per room per night. Special rate available through February 5, 2020. Thank you for your persistance.

The Committee would like to thank all of you for attending the 31st Anniversary of the ORMB at the McKinley Grand Hotel, Canton, Ohio, on February 16, 2019, and making the Ball successful and memorable.

The Ohio Regimental Military Ball Committee cordially invites you to our 32nd Annual Ball to be held at the beautiful Sheraton Suites, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. This new venue will enhance our Ball in addition to the new Presenters and Topics, Cuisine & Sutlers. We look forward to your attendance in the celebration of the Blue & Gray!

CASH BAR INFORMATION ABOVE

DANCES LISTED BELOW ‘MUSICIANS’

Presenter Bio &Topics & Sutler Information have been added.

We are happy to announce that our credit card fees are 4% for registration fee versus 22 1/2% which Eventbrite charged for Statehouse Ball.

Sheraton Suites Cuyahoga Falls

Ball Schedule

9:00 am – 3:30 pm

12:00 – 1:00 pm

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

5:00 pm

6:15 pm

7:30 pm

10:00 pm

Unlimited Conferences included in Ball Ticket – WITHOUT BALL TICKET $20 pp

Lunch/Pre-ordered Pasta & Salad Bar Buffet CASCADE area Sheraton Suites

Group Waltz Dance Lessons Ballroom

Individual, private Waltz lessons at Ballroom. (Appointment needed, details below)

Socializing & Shopping

Dinner Begins

Dance Begins with the Grand March

Afterglow begins

Dinner Menu

Dinner Entrée Options:

Sirloin Steak (6 ounces) with roasted mushroom sauce

Cranberry Chicken Stuffed with walnuts in pan sauce and fennel slaw

Scrod with Lemon Wine Butter Sauce

Asian Vegetarian Stir Fry with Fresh Selection of Vegetables & Sticky Rice

All Entrées include:

Garden Salad, Rolls, Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Chef’s Medley of Vegetables,

Dessert

Chocolate or Vanilla Mousse

32nd Anniversary Cake

Coffee and Tea Station

Breakfast (optional)

Hotel Check-ins will receive $4 off coupon each for Saturday & Sunday Breakfast Buffet

Other restaurant options:

Beaus on the River Restaurant: 7:00am – 11:am (closed)
Sheraton Lounge: 11:00am – 1:00 am

Lunch (optional)

Sheraton is offering a Pasta and Salad Bar Buffet for Attendees 11:30 – 12:30 Cascade Area.

$18.00 per person which includes tax and gratuity.

You MUST register for this in order to reserve a luncheon, and this option will be in your Registration form. Otherwise, please note the following hours when the Sheraton will have lunch available.

Accommodations

Sheraton Suites Cuyahoga Falls

Room Rate: $110 plus tax (15.25%)

Deadline for Special Room Rate: 1/27/2020

Conferences

Conference Presenters & Topics Under “Presenters”

Unlimited Conferences offer Guests different Topic choices scheduled either morning or afternoon

Attendees with BALL TICKETS (Dinner & Dance) FREE unlimited conferences

Otherwise $20 per person unlimited Conferences

Room 1

Photography – Michael Rhodes

Remembering Arlington – Mary Anna Custis Lee – Maryann O’Neal

$10 To a Better Appearance – Janet Fortino

Lives of President & Mrs. Davis – David Walker & Dr. Holly Ray

Recreate a Civil War Style with Beads & Bugles (fee) – Kristen Mrozek

Conversation with the Lincolns – Robert & Barbara Brugler

History of the American Flags & Governor Francis H. Pierpont History – Art & Pam Dodd

Music – John Huffman

Room 2

General Samuel Cooper – John Spaziana

Railroads during the Civil War and Amassa Stone Industrialist Tragedy – Maryanne Chevraux as Mrs. Stone

The Second Battle of Lake Erie – Ed Keyse as Commander John C. Carter

Spiritualism – Melissa Strobel

Songbird of the Civil War – Diana Virostko

Harriet Tubman – Allison Smith

Spy of the Cumberland – Valerie Hamil

Waste Not, Want Not, A Victorian Woman’s Art & Crafts with leftovers around the home – Lynne Bury

Lives of President & Mrs. Davis Part II – David Walker & Dr. Holly Ray

Ballroom Etiquette – John Rys

Sutlers

Octagon Ladies’ Repository

Amazon Dry Goods

Patty Roosa – Elizabeth II

Mandy Kallal – Jewelry for Reenactors

Janet Fortino

Keely Hopkins

Kimberly Lynch – Dressmaker’s Shop

Kristen Mrozek – The Victorian Needle

Evening in Paris Antiques

Uniontown Antique Thrift & Gifts

Saphi Shop – Alpaca blankets: etsy.com/SaphiShop

Attire

Gentlemen: 1860s Period Military Uniforms, 1860s Evening Formal Wear or Modern Formal Wear

Ladies: 1860s Ball Gowns or Modest, Modern Evening Formal Wear

Musicians

73rd OVI Brass Band for Dancing

Federal Rebels for Entertainment

Dance Caller: Katie Humphries
Set #1: Grand March, Waltz, Gay Gordon, Gallopade, Rustic Steel
Set #2: Waltz, The Cheat, Northumberland, Circle Mixer, Virginia Reel, Spanish Dance
Set #3: Pattycake Polka, Gothic Dance, Lancers 1, Soldiers Joy, Last Waltz

Free Dance Practice

Ballroom Opens at 1:00 pm

Dance Lessons

2:30 – 3:30 Group Waltz Lessons No Sign Up necessary

3:30 – 4:30 Individual, Private Waltz Lessons at 15-minute interval – please

Email Carol for Appointment: carltonmt@hotmail.com

Photography Sitting

Michael Rhodes Photographer will be available throughout the day.

Appointment preferred

440-666-8588

9 AM – 5 PM

http://www.michaelrhodesphotography.com

Send Message to info@michaelrhodesphotography.com

Ball Gown Seamstresses

Elizabeth Rock

Octagon Ladies Repository

Sara Crow

CivilWarLady.net by Joy Melcher

Patty Roosa – Elizabeth II

Sara McKee – Handstitch buttonholes, men’s clothing, basic ladies’ underpinnings

Lisa Maxwell – You’re Never Out of Style Victorian Bustle Dresses, Edwardian, and Civil War

Erin’s Sewing Creations – erinseidla@gmail.com

330-310-6458

330-855-4251

330-356-0904

712-310-9383

330-671-6637

330-844-3490

330-764-4628

Dance Mixer

If you would like us to locate Dance Partners, please indicate if you wish a Male Partner or a Female Partner on the Registrations Form! Otherwise leave blank

Miscellaneous

Cash Bar in Sheraton Lounge

No outside food or alcohol permitted at our Event per State Law:

Breakout Presenter Rooms, Ballrooms and at the Afterglow Snacks available