Page 6 - ASME SMASIS 2016 Program

Special Events

PIONEER WARDS A CEREMONY BANQUET GAME NIGHT
6:30PM–9:00PM 10:00PM–12:00AM
Thursday, September 29th Thursday, September 29th
Trapp Family Lodge Hour Glass Bar
(Buses depart at 6:00 PM from the South Wing Entrance of the hotel) Keep the party going at the post-banquet game night. Everyone is
welcome to mingle while playing board and card games at the Stowe
The ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Technical Committee Mountain Resort. Hosted by the Students and Young Professional
will honor their 2016 award recipients along with the best student papers Symposium.
and hardware from the SMASIS conference.

Trapp Family Lodge is a unique, four-season resort situated on 2,500
acres overlooking the classic New England village of Stowe, Vermont.
From the European cuisine, spectacular mountain vistas, and the warmth
of a family-run property, the Trapp Family Lodge is the perfect setting for
our Awards Banquet.

Fact from Fiction

Trapp Family Lodge

While The Sound of Music was generally based on the first section of Maria’s book The Story
of the Trapp Family Singers (published in 1949), there were many alterations and omissions.

• Maria came to the von Trapp family in 1926 as a • The family did not secretly escape over the Alps
tutor for one of the children, Maria, who was to freedom in Switzerland, carrying their
recovering from scarlet fever, not as governess suitcases and musical instruments. They left by
to all the children. train.

• Maria and Georg married in 1927, 11 years before • The von Trapps traveled to Italy, not Switzerland.
the family left Austria, not right before the Nazi
takeover of Austria. • The family had a contract with an American
booking agent when they left Austria. They
• There were 10, not 7 von Trapp children. contacted the agent from Italy and requested
fare to America.
• The names, ages, and sexes of the children were
changed. • Instead of the fictional Max Detweiler, pushy
music promoter, the von Trapps’ priest, the
• The family was musically inclined before Maria Reverend Franz Wasner, acted as their musical
arrived, but she did teach them to sing director for over 20 years.
madrigals.

We will be welcomed to the Lodge by one of the Von Trapp grandchildren. We recommend business casual attire.

Note: A ticket is required for guests / spouses.
6