OPNAVINST 1710.7A - Historic Naval Ships Association

More documents

Recommendations

Info

<strong>OPNAVINST</strong> 17 10.7A 15 Jun 2001 CHAPTER 4 Formal Dining Formal entertaining is no longer commonplace on the American scene, partly because of the trend toward informality in living and partly because o~fthe requirement for a well-trained staff and expensive table appointments. For the average Navy family, informal dinners are far more usual. Flag officers and service representatives abroad are often involved, however, in hosting seated dinners. When such official occasions warrant the traditional formality of the past, details of absolutely correct service, table settings, and menus are available in general etiquette books. A few basic guidelines are summarized here for those who find themselves entertaining formally, GENERAL GUIDELINES Formal entertaining is usually intended to honor a special guest as well as to extend hospitality. Guests are seated according to rank as illustrated in Chapter 3. Formal dinners generally commence at 8 p.m. or 8:30 p.m. The attire should be specified on the invitation. Generally, this is black tie and occasionally white tie. For black tie, ladies generally wear ankle length dinner dresses of wool, velvet, cotton or silk; for white tie occasions, they wear floor length evening gowns of dressier material and design. Current fashion may sometimes dictate that dinner and evening dresses may be short. The President rarely dines out except at official banquets, or with members of his Cabinet. Then he and his wife are met at the front door by the host and hostess and escorted to the drawing room. Other guests arrive approximately 15 minutes earlier, so they maybe assembled when the President arrives. The host and hostess may relinquish their places at the , table to the President and his wife, and move one seat to the left of their normal positions, or the President may choose to sit in the usual guest of honor seat and have his wife placed on the host’s right. When an invitation to dinner is to be extended. to the President, a proposed guest list, seating plan, and details on other arrangements should be submitted to the White House for approval before any invitations are tendered. Occasionally, a U.S. Navy host maybe required to entertain royalty, a head of state, or the members of a ruling family, either on board ship or ashore. One must carefully comply with the guidelines which are set forth above concerning presidential guests and with protocol expectations that are conveyed by the Department of State and the representatives of such prospective visitors. DINNER PARTNERS At large, formal dinners each man is provided with the name of his dinner partner whom he is to escort to her place at the table. Normally, he takes in the woman who will sit on his right. There are several procedures for acquainting men with the names of their dinner partners. The simplest method and that used for a small dinner is to have the hostess announce who is to be seated next to whom. 4-1 Enclosure (1)
<strong>OPNAVINST</strong> 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A At a larger affair, each man will find on a silver tray, often placed in the entrance hall, a small envelope bearing his name and reflecting the name of his dinner partner on an enclosed card. Near this tray of name cards there is generally a leather, table-shaped diagram of the location of each guest’s seat at the table. Name Cards RenJ-L-&mQAJ -mm.%QhABlb Seating Diagram – Rectangular Table 4-2 Enclosure (1)
Page 1 and 2: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Socia
Page 3 and 4: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O,7A Record
Page 5 and 6: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Mixed
Page 7 and 8: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A Commis
Page 9 and 10: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Air F
Page 11 and 12: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Passi
Page 13 and 14: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O,7A Annex
Page 15 and 16: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A Preced
Page 17 and 18: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A 15, 16
Page 19 and 20: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A previo
Page 21 and 22: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A The f
Page 23 and 24: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A If th
Page 25 and 26: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 71O.7A Semi-e
Page 27 and 28: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Semi-
Page 29 and 30: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A Semi-e
Page 31 and 32: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Compu
Page 33 and 34: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A A “
Page 35 and 36: OPNAVINST 17 10.7A 15 Jun2001 RECAL
Page 37 and 38: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A CHAPT
Page 39 and 40: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Plan
Page 41 and 42: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Plan
Page 43 and 44: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A MIXED
Page 45 and 46: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A Plan 4
Page 47 and 48: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A Plan 5
Page 49: OPNAVINST 17 10.7A 15 Jun2001 Plan
Page 53 and 54: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A PLACE
Page 55 and 56: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A MENU C
Page 59 and 60: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A FRENCH
Page 61 and 62: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A Guests
Page 63 and 64: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A SELEC
Page 65 and 66: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A Retire
Page 67 and 68: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A JOINT
Page 69 and 70: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A CHAPTE
Page 71 and 72: OPNAVINST : 71O.7A 15 Jun2001 Table
Page 73 and 74: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A second
Page 77 and 78: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Progr
Page 79 and 80: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Progr
Page 83 and 84: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A RETIR
Page 85 and 86: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A CHAPTE
Page 87 and 88: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A 5. Pro
Page 89 and 90: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A RECORD
Page 93 and 94: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Ameri
Page 95 and 96: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A POSITI
Page 97 and 98: OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A POSITI
Page 99 and 100: OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A POSIT
Page 101 and 102:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A POSIT
Page 103 and 104:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A POSITI
Page 105 and 106:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Forei
Page 107 and 108:
Page 109 and 110:
Page 111 and 112:
Page 113 and 114:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A ANNEX
Page 115 and 116:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A ANNEx
Page 117 and 118:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A Addres
Page 119 and 120:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Addre
Page 121 and 122:
Page 123 and 124:
Page 125 and 126:
Page 127 and 128:
Page 129 and 130:
Page 131 and 132:
Page 133:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O,7A Casual
Page 136 and 137:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A ANNEX
Page 138 and 139:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A alert
Page 140 and 141:
OPNAVINST 17 10.7A 15 Jun2001 9. Th
Page 142 and 143:
OPNAVINST 15 Jurt2001 171O.7A _ (#)
Page 144 and 145:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Infor
Page 146 and 147:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A ESCORT
Page 148 and 149:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A The s
Page 150 and 151:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A displ
Page 152 and 153:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A 2. Wh
Page 154 and 155:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A 1214.
Page 156 and 157:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A 1221.
Page 158 and 159:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A 2. Whe
Page 160 and 161:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A a. vi
Page 162 and 163:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 4. A flag or g
Page 164 and 165:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A g. Th
Page 166 and 167:
OPNAVINST 15 .Tun2001 171O.7A 1254.
Page 168 and 169:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A 1261.
Page 170 and 171:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A 6. A
Page 172 and 173:
OPNAVINST 15.Jun 2001 171O.7A sea,
Page 174 and 175:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A alpha
Page 176 and 177:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A the 1
Page 178 and 179:
OPNAVINST 1710.7A 15 Jun 2001 7. Du
Page 180 and 181:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Table
Page 182 and 183:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A Table
Page 184 and 185:
Page 186 and 187:
Page 188 and 189:
Page 190 and 191:
Page 192 and 193:
Page 194 and 195:
Page 196 and 197:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A g. Wh
Page 198 and 199:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A d. Whe
Page 200 and 201:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A (4) Cl
Page 202 and 203:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A (3) T
Page 204 and 205:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A (9) T
Page 206 and 207:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Enter
Page 208 and 209:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Escor
Page 210 and 211:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A Family
Page 212 and 213:
OPNAVINST 15 Jun2001 171O.7A Honors
Page 214 and 215:
OPNAVISNT 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A ANNEX
Page 216 and 217:
OPNAVISNT 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Field
Page 218:
OPNAVISNT 15 Jun 2001 171O.7A Semi-
show all

OPNAVINST 1710.7A - Historic Naval Ships Association

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?