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FAMILY FUN CENTERS

GREAT LAKES’

EPICENTER:

The Center of It All

n 2010, despite having a successful Fort Sam Houston, Texas, for joint train-
and profitable venue with the ing. “It was the closest MWR facility
IDonald J. Rynish Bowling to their barracks,” said John Prue,
Center at Naval Station Great installation program director
Lakes in Illinois, Morale, for MWR. “A lot of the
Welfare and Recreation 1,500 students who trained
(MWR) on base knew and lived over there used
that the time had come our center quite a bit.
to downsize the facility They used it as their
and open another one own personal hangout
elsewhere. place to relax and get
The 32-lane bowling some down time. It was
center was located very not only a bowling cen-
close to the Hospital ter for the entire com-
Corps School, which, be- munity, it became their
cause of the Base Realign- hub because they literally
ment and Closure (BRAC) lived a block and a half away
process, would be moving to from there in the barracks.”
–Continued

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