La Societe des Quarante Hommes et Huit Chevaux Grande Voiture du Texas TEXAS VOYAGEUR NEWS

Monsieur’s and Madame’s 31 January 2023

What a fast start to our new year. January has come and gone so quickly. Our Programs have progressed nicely due to all of your support Pease continue to promote everything we stand for. Continue to support out Programs and finish this year in great fashion Merchandise sales have been slowly progressing, even though the weather has been most difficult. Continue with everything you have been doing in the past because it support everything we work for in the 40 et 8. For those Grandes / Voitures who have not received their 2023 POW/MIA Pin, you may order them through me in any quantity desired.

DO NOT FORGET OUR FOUR GOALS:

1. Raising our POW/MIA Survivor Scholarship Fund Awareness

2. Merchandise Sales

3. Consolidated Reports

4. POW/MIA Pin Design

Steve Bradley, National Directeur Ritual

233 Park Street, Antigo, WI 54409 715-216-0776 stevepkst@gmail.com

For La Societe, Steve Slegers

Grand Directeurs Ritual, February 1, 2023

February is the month to make plans for the 40 et 8 Birthday Celebration. Our Birthday is March 15, your Celebration can be whenever it works for your Voiture.

Please keep reminding your Locale Directeurs Ritual about this special 40 et 8 event. The Ritual for the Celebration for the Birthday of La Societe encourages you to have a program leaflet, color guard, a Chef de Cuisine (who will need a cake cutter) along with a Chef de Gar, Conducteur, Aumonier, guest speaker and a cake.

Also, the oldest Voyageur and the youngest Voyageur present are part of the ceremony. You may want to coach them to improve their comfort level.

Make this a special event! Invite other veterans and use this event as a recruiting tool. A guest speaker can be a long time Voyageur from your Voiture or a Grande or National Officer. Ask the speaker to prepare the talk and include some local 40 et 8 history and to keep his or her talk to about five minutes.

If you have invited any dignitaries, you may want to introduce them at the very beginning of the program and list them in your program leaflet.

Remember this Birthday Celebration can include a dinner with guests or a gathering after a Promenade. It is up to you. Whatever you do, read over the Ritual and have a Blue Ritual & Manual of Ceremonies for all participants. Be sure to take pictures of your event and send them with proper captions to the Forty et Eighter magazine L’editeur Thomas Orval at wigrandvoiture@spectrum.net

A well-prepared program will bring you success!

In Service to La Societe, Steve Bradley