We have published an August 2023 newsletter and it is available for download/viewing on our website.
In this newsletter, you will find the following:
Information about the 2023 triennial meeting
Volunteer opportunities
Announcement of the VFA’s plans to go paperless
Information about new board nominees
Details about the VFA books
Member profile update information
List of missing members (can you help?)
The Sound of the Fortress
You can download this latest newsletter using this link or by clicking on the included cover image.
A link to this newsletter is being emailed to all currently subscribed VFA members who have chosen to receive news electronically. Our final printed version has been sent to those who have indicated that they would like to receive a printed version.
We have published a May 2023 newsletter and it is available for download/viewing on our website.
In this newsletter, you will find the following:
Tributes to David A Violette, our VFA President, whose passing has left shoes to fill and hearts to mend
Notice of September 2023 triennial meeting and a summer newsletter that will include the meeting agenda and nominees for Association Officers
Announcement of the VFA’s plans to go paperless
News about the confirmation of Louis Violette’s parents
Details about the VFA books
An invitation to help the VFA – whether through sharing your ideas, volunteering or donating
You can download this latest newsletter using this link or by clicking on the included cover image.
A link to this newsletter is being emailed to all currently subscribed VFA members who have chosen to receive news electronically. A printed version will go in the mail, within the next few days, to those who have indicated that they would like to receive a printed version.
A reminder that the Triennial Meeting of the Violette Family Association will be held on Saturday, September 12th. This will be a virtual meeting held using the Zoom meeting system. Instructions for attending this meeting are available here. The Final Agenda has been set, though this may change at the meeting under agenda item 2.
The meeting time depends on your time zone. The meeting will start at 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Noon Central Daylight Time, 11:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 10:00 Pacific Daylight Time.
An important part of this meeting will be election of officers. Voting may be done by paper ballot postmarked no later than the meeting date. Voting may also be done electronically at the Association’s web site. Only Association members may vote.
It is time to elect our officers for the 2020-2023 triennium. The recent newsletter contains a ballot for mailing but you can also vote online at VioletteRegistry.com/2020-voting. Either way, your vote must be in before the Meeting in order to count.
Our Triennial Meeting will be held on September 12, 2020. It will be a virtual meeting using Zoom. The newsletter gives you instructions on how to connect with the meeting using your computer, tablet, or smartphone. Check the meeting notice for the meeting time in your time zone.
A Violette Family Association newsletter has been published. Printed copies go to those who have not given us an email address, but electronic copies are available through our web site at VioletteRegistry.com/news/newsletters.
This newsletter is devoted to information about the Triennial Meeting to be held on September 12, 2020. It will be a virtual meeting using Zoom. The newsletter gives you instructions on how to connect with the meeting using your computer, tablet, or smartphone. Check the meeting notice for the meeting time in your time zone.
It is time to elect our officers for the 2020-2023 triennium. The newsletter contains a ballot for mailing but you can also vote online at VioletteRegistry.com/2020-voting. Either way, your vote must be in before the Meeting in order to count.
This is the last call for nominations for President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. While we have one nominee each for President, Secretary, and Treasurer at this time we have none for Vice President. We can use more than one nomination for all of the offices.
The elections will be held at the Triennial Meeting to be held in late August or early September, and nominations need to be received by June 27th at the latest so they can be included in the next newsletter. That will be published 60 days ahead of the Triennial Meeting.
We are looking for nominations for all of the offices of the Association: President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. We need those nominations sent to President@VioletteFamily.org no later than May 30, 2020.
The term of office is three years, running from the date of the Triennial Meeting in August 2020 through the date of the Triennial Meeting in August 2023.
The duties of each office are spelled out in Constitution and Bylaws. Download those documents here or go to VioletteRegistry.com/constitution-bylaws/.
Please provide full contact information for any nominee so we can contact them to verify they are willing to be placed in nomination and to serve. Nominees must be members of the Association.
We have published a newsletter in April 2020 telling members about new Violette-related books available from Amazon and setting the state for a Triennial Meeting, probably in August. You can download the newsletter using this link or by clicking on the cover image at the right.
On the front page we announce publication of the historic The Descendants of Francois Violet. First published in 1984 by Rita Violette Lippe (VFA #1), this book went out of print in 2008 but there has been a demand for more copies. The newsletter tells the story of how this edition came into being and how to get it.
Other topics in the newsletter discuss the upcoming election of officers at the Triennial Meeting. We are asking for nominations for all of the four offices.
The newsletter is being distributed electronically via this newsletter, which will be sent to all members with an email address on file. A printed version will go in the mail within the next few days to the rest.
The Violette Family Association Bylaws call for Triennial Meetings to be held to take care of business not handled by the Board of Directors. The next such meeting will be held in August 2020. You will receive official notice of the meeting date by mid-June. While in the past these meetings have been held during a Reunion, no Reunion is planned for 2020 so the meeting will be a virtual one. You can see the details of how this will be done by reading the Constitution and Bylaws.
One topic on the agenda for that meeting is to elect officers for the Board of Directors. There are four offices to be filled: President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. The fifth member of the Board is the most recent Past President. We invite nominations for those offices by June 30, 2002, so that we can verify willingness to serve and to publish them 60 days in advance of the meeting. Send your nominations, or if you would like to volunteer, to President@VioletteFamily.org.
* No Reunion, no meeting, no elections, same officers continued
Note that all of the current officers have been in office since 2014 and some for longer than that. The youngest of the four is 76, the oldest 88. Perhaps it is time to get a younger generation involved, at least in some offices! The current officers will be glad to help new ones get started.
Happy New Year to all Violettes and their families!
Do you want to have a Violette Family Reunion in 2020? It is time in the regular cycle of things for us to have one. The last was in 2014; we did not have one in 2017. We just need someone or a group to act as hosts, and we can provide them with a lot of help in organizing and carrying it out. A New England location would work best for the majority of members. See VioletteRegistry.com/Reunions/reunion-guidelines for info on holding a Reunion.
2020 will be the year for our Triennial Meeting, whether it is held at a Reunion or virtually. That means it is also time for elections of officers. Our current officers were elected in 2014 and would like for someone else to take over. Four offices are up for election: President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Please think about it and suggest potential nominees to an officer. Contact info is at VioletteRegistry.com/VioletteRegistry.com/organization/officers/.
