Category Archives: Reunions

Fall 2024 Newsletter

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We just published the Fall 2024 newsletter and it is now available for download/viewing on our website.

In this newsletter, you will find the following:

  • Vice President’s Corner
  • Violette Family Newsletter Archive
  • Executive Committee
  • An Old Violette Mill
  • Recipe: Canadian Fried Dough
  • Recipe: Corton
  • Verify and Update Your Profile
  • Am I a Member?
  • About Arnold Richardson
  • Missing Members
  • Donations
  • Contrats de Mariage
  • In Memory of Guy Dubay
  • Reunion 2026

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 from the Violette Family Association.

VFA Newsletter – Fall 2024 (Click image to view/download newsletter)

New officers. No reunion.

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New officers

Our officers for the 2020-2023 period were elected as of the Triennial Meeting on September 12, 2020. Balloting was done with a combination of mailed-in paper ballots and electronic voting. The votes were unanimous for the slate listed in the most recent newsletter. They are:

David A. Violette, VFA #621, Phoenix AZ, President (re-elected)
Richard G. Violette, VFA #1812, Columbia MD, Vice President
Paul L. Violette, VFA #1589, St Louis MO, Treasurer
Peter R. Violette, VFA #1793, Mineral VA, Secretary

Peter R. Violette is also our new Genealogist.

No reunion

We have no volunteers to host a Reunion, so there are no plans for one.

The next regular date for a Reunion would be 2023, so there is plenty of time for folks to get together and do the planning for it. Contact any of the officers if you would like to host one or if you have questions about doing so.

In the new year

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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/.

No Reunion 2017

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We are sorry to report that there will be no Violette Family Association Reunion 2017. Planning for potential sites started too late and lagged too much to be able to provide members with enough time to plan their vacations to take in the Reunion.

Can we postpone the Reunion to 2018? Possibly.

But Reunion event planners need to have things finalized by THIS SUMMER (summer 2017) in order to hold the Reunion in 2018.

We encourage anyone who would like to hold a Reunion in MA, CT, or NH to contact the Association right away so we can help you move forward with planning.