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SPECIAL AWARDS

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YOUTH SPORTS

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THE BADGER

Grand Chefde Gare’sMessage

Rich Ruland

Greetings to all. I hope that everyone had a great holiday and a safe one.

The new year is here, time to start off fresh within our own Voiture getting along with each other and promoting the 40 and 8.

I had the pleasure of attending three Voiture Christmas parties.

The fi rst was the Tri-County Christmas Party on Dec. 2 at the Iron Ridge Inn. I really enjoyed myself and the food was great. It was exciting to see a good showing of Voyagers, Dames and guests. I want to thank Dave Wegner and Washington Coun-ty Voiture 898 for hosting.

Dec. 4 found me in West Sa-lem for La Crosse County Ca-bane 830’s holiday party. My gracious hostess was Mary Schaller, who along with her husband, Chef de Train Doug Schaller, attended to my needs and showed me a good time. And I enjoyed another delicious meal.

It was back to the southern part of the state Dec. 9 for the sixth annual Dane County 683 and Jefferson County 750 com-bined Christmas party at Dou-bleday’s in Cottage Grove. Gary Stueber, the owner of the sup-per club, is a Voyager himself, a member of Voiture 750. Gary and his wife Debbie put togeth-er a fantastic meal and provid-ed a comfortable setting for us to socialize with fellow Voya-geurs and Dames. Past Chef Ken Kozubek was emcee for the evening.

Grand Presidente Lisa York and the Dames of Cabane 856 held a meat raffl e fundraiser Nov. 19 at the Horicon Legion Post, with the proceeds going for nurs-es training scholarships and to help veterans and their families. It was their fi rst attempt at this kind of raffl e, so they were not sure how it would go over. But I understand it was a success.

I want to thank those who send me their Voiture newsletters; it helps to keep me informed about goings on at the Locale level. I fi rmly believe that communica-tion is key to a great 40 and 8.

Let me remind you that Mid-Winter Petite Promenade will be held in La Crosse Feb. 10-11. Get your reservation in if you have not already done so. I am looking forward to seeing my good 40 and 8 friends there. And a reminder: we will be having a Membership Training Seminar that will look at ways to recruit, retain and reinstate members. Sous Chef de Chemin de Fer Jim Vissers has informed me that our Grand membership is over half-way to 100 percent. Now is the time to roll up our sleeves and get to work to get to the top.

I will be attending a white col-lar wreck March 8 at Horicon. Any Voiture is welcome to bring PGs to be wrecked. Check our Grand Correspondante’s article for more information about this wreck.

May good things happen to all and stay safe.

On Monday, September 26, 2016, Lowell Liberty, Commander of American Legion Post 93, Tomahawk, WI and National Sous Directeur of Membership Joe Story presented a check for $450 to Penny Angell, Principal, Tomahawk Elementary Schools. These monies were donated to the elementary school to help students who need a helping hand with school supplies.

Tomahawk School Donation

Voiture 751 feels rather good about 2016. The Voiture completed its annual Flags for First Graders program in February and March. They visited 44 elementary schools within the county and distributed over 1900 fl ags which were all mounted on wood bases made by lo-cal high school industrial arts students. A sticker was added to each base to readily identify just who provided the fl ags.

The Voiture along with Calumet County Voiture 1434, Outagamie County Voiture 1140 and Shawano County Voiture 986 co-hosted the 2016 Great Lakes Promenade in June held in Appleton. It was a successful endeavor and seemed to impress all attendees.

The Voiture had four voyageurs attend the Grand Promenade in Shawano where we were presented with two awards.

The Voiture Historien scored a fi rst place at Promenade Nationale for his annual scrapbook. We are very proud of his success.

The annual Nurses Training Dinner was held in late September in which two nursing students at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh School of Nursing received scholarship checks. A third year student received a check in the amount of $300 and a fourth year student re-ceived a check in the amount of $500.

The Voiture holds monthly Promenades except for the September Nurses Training Dinner which is strictly a social event.

2017 GRANDE VOITUREDE WISCONSIN

MID-WINTER PETITE PROMENADEProudly Hosted by

LA CROSSE COUNTY VOITURE NO. 830

FEBRUARY 10th – 11th, 2017Headquarters Hotel

America Inn 1835 Rose Street

La Crosse, WI. 54650FORMERLY THE BEST WESTERN

REZONED FROM ONALASKA TO LA CROSSE608-781-7000

Mention La Crosse Forty & Eight No. 830 when making reservations

REGISTRATIONVoyageur $10.00

Name: _______________________________ Voiture No. ____________Dame $ 5.00

Name: _______________________________ Cabane No. __________Banquet $ 25.00 per person

Name: __________________________________________________________

Name:___________________________________________________________Past Chef Lunch $12.00

Name: __________________________________________________________Other Voyageurs / Dames Lunch $12.00

Name: __________________________________________________________Booster Club $2.00

Name: __________________________________________________________

Name:___________________________________________________________

TOTAL ENCLOSED $ ______________________

Make Checks out to: La Crosse County Voiture No. 830

AD ORDER FORM Full Page $65.00 Half Page $45.00 Third Page $35.00 Quarter Page $25.00

Checks Payable to La Crosse County Voiture No. 830Mail To: Al Johnson

840 Mill Street Apt 1 • West Salem, WI. 54669

Winnebago Cty Voiture 751 Refl ects on Successful Year

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Grand Chef de Gare Rich Ruland MadisonGrand Chef de Train Doug Schaller West SalemSous Grand Chef de Train Joe Story TomahawkGrand Conducteur Jim Bassett WinneconneGrand Garde De La Porte John Aasen Whitehall Grand Commis Voyageur Dale Oatman AntigoGrand Aumonier Jerry Benzschawel SheboyganGrand Avocat Dave Wegener West AllisGrand Historian Dele Mitchell EagleGrand Commissaire Intendant Jim Romnek NeenahGrand Sous Commissaire Intendant Al Johnson OnalaskaCheminot National Dale Mitchell EagleAlternate Cheminot National Ken Kozubek CambridgeGrand Correspondant Tom Orval Johnson CreekSous Grand Correspondant Steve Bradley Antigo

GRAND CHEMINOT 20171st District Ted Welch Kansasville2nd District Ron Pfalzgraf Horicon3rd District Jim Hying Muscoda4th District Chuck Cooney Franklin6th District Mike Woods Menasha7th District Les Brown Holmen8th District Roger Oleson Shawano9th District Jim Vissers Clintonville10th District Donna Swenson Ellsworth11th District Joe Story Tomahawk12th District Jim Edgell Centuria

THE BADGER FORTY & EIGHTER STAFF

Grand L’editeur Tom OrvalGrand Sous L’editeur John HelgesonGrande Cabane Sous L’editeur Mary OrvalProduction Manager Fred KrahnCommittee Members Steve Bradley Beth Laatsch Harriet Robson

Headquarters: 312 Hillside Circle, Johnson Creek, WI. 53038-9700Phone 920-699-5676Cell Phone 920-723-0005 E-mail wigrandvoiture@tds.net

REPRESENTING LA SOCIETE FEMMEGRANDE CABANE DE WISCONSIN

La Grande Presidente Lisa York MayvilleLa Grande Correspondante Mary Orval Johnson Creek

Badger Forty et Eighter published bimonthly by Grand Voiture de Wisconsin(USPS #014-222) 312 Hillside Dr., Johnson Creek, WI 53038-9700Periodicals postage paid at Johnson Creek, WI and additional mailing offi ce, Berlin, WI 54923.

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Grand Voiture de Wisconsin 312 Hillside Circle, Johnson Creek, WI 53038-9700

CHANGE OF ADDRESSIf you are moving, advise Headquarters of your new address as soon as possible before you move. The Grand pays 50 cents for each newspaper that cannot be delivered to the address as shown.

GRAND VOITUREOFFICERS 2017

Grand Voiture Membership 2016DECEMBER 29TH, 2016

AREA STANDINGS 2016 2017 PercentAREA 1 - 4th Place Joe Story10th District 128 77 60.15%11th District 23 20 86.96%12th District 38 26 68.42%TOTALS 189 123 65.07%––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––AREA 2 - 1st Place Jim Bassett9th District 112 93 83003%4th District 37 37 100.00%6th District 59 49 83.05% TOTALS 208 179 86.05%––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––AREA 3 - 3rd Place John Aasen2nd District 190 148 77.89%7th District 266 144 54.13%8th District 78 60 76.92%TOTALS 534 352 65.91%––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––AREA 4 - 2nd Place Dale Oatman1st District 52 49 94.23%3rd Distrrict 128 100 78.13%TOTALS 180 149 82.77%–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– TOTALS 1111 802 72.19% -309

VOITURE COUNTY DISTRICT 2016 2017 236 POLK-BURNETT 12 29 24 260 TREMPEALEAU 10 48 23 410 KENOSHA 1 17 16 497 RACINE 1 17 16 525 EAU CLAIRE 10 10 12** 526 WALWORTH 1 8 6 652 SAUK 7 41 28 683 DANE 3 45 31 738 GREEN LAKE- MARQUETTE 6 3 1 750 JEFFERSON 2 74 62 751 WINNEBAGO 6 32 27 774 BROWN-KEWAUNEE 9 37 19 804 MONROE 7 48 40 821 CLARK 7 11 1 830 LA CROSSE 7 127 45 831 PORTAGE 8 29 27 840 COLUMBIA 2 9 10** 844 ROCK 1 10 11** 856 DODGE 2 45 34 898 WASHINGTON 2 27 22 904 PIERCE 10 56 33 986 SHAWANO 8 41 26 1080 SHEBOYGAN 2 16 11 1121 GREEN 3 11 4 1139 WOOD 8 8 7 1140 OUTAGAMIE 9 29 26 1156 VILAS-ONEIDA LINCOLN 11 23 20 1204 LANGLADE 9 46 48** 1209 WASHBURN 12 9 2 1268 RICHLAND 3 49 46 1323 JUNEAU 7 39 30 1330 OZAUKEE 2 19 9 1372 GRANT 3 9 8 1434 CALUMET 6 24 21 1455 IOWA 3 14 11 1485 ST. CROIX 10 14 8 1519 MILWAUKEE 4 37 37* 1111 802 ** OVER THE TOP * 100%

GRAND CORRESPONDANTThomas J. Orval

Voyageurs and DamesThe 2017 Grande Midwinter

Petite is right around the corner. It is my hope that we’ll have anoth-er outstanding turnout with Voya-geurs and Dames in attendance in La Crosse. Our own National Sous Chef de Chemin de Fer Jim Vissers is our National guest for the event.

For those who are arriving on Thursday, reservations have been

made to go out and eat as a group at the Blue Moon in Onalaska that evening. The Locale and Cabane have re-served a hospitality room for everyone to go to and social-ize each night.

2017 Communique forms will be handed out at the Mid-winter Petite. For those Locales who are not in attendance, they will be mailed to you. Please follow the instructions included with the Communique forms.

I’ve had nothing but compliments on the way I intro-duced the Grand Chef de Gare Passé at Grand Chef de Gare Rich Ruland’s testimonial. So I’ll do it that way once again at the Midwinter Petite banquet. YES, you had to have been there!

Please remember that the Headquarters Hotel has changed ownership and it is now the AmericInn and the lo-cation is La Crosse instead of Onalaska due to rezoning.

We have not yet received any applications for the posi-tion of Grand Commissaire Intendant or for Grand Sous Correspondant. There have been a few inquiries for Com-missaire Intendant but nothing defi nite. As I’ve stated ear-lier, the position of Grand Sous Correspondant is for some-one who would take my place if something should happen (hope not) and I could no longer fulfi ll the position.

Grand Chef de Train Doug Schaller has already appoint-ed a Grand Aumonier to cover for current Grand Aumo-nier Jerry Benzschawel. Jerry is retiring from this position after eighteen years, and may I say, of “A job extremely well done”.

Grand Chef de Gare Rich, Grand Chef de Train Doug and Grand Sous Chef de Train Joe are planning a mem-bership seminar immediately following the closing of the Midwinter Petite on Saturday. We ask all to attend this very informative seminar.

The Grande Voiture received a check from the Harald Kahlert estate for approximately $18,500.00. For now there is no exact stipulation on what funds we will invest the money in. Harald was a WWII medic, long time mem-ber and Captain of the award winning Grande de Wiscon-sin Color Guard. Thank you Harald!

Invoices for the ad’s in the Badger Forty & Eighter were sent out at the beginning of the month. We are always looking for new ad’s for the magazine. If you know of a business, Locale, Legion Post, etc., please contact Grande Headquarters for the necessary information on this matter. For the Past Grande Chef’s ad, we’ll be collecting mon-ey at the Midwinter Petite Past Chefs’ breakfast on Satur-day morning.

By now, most of you know that Terri Taylor has retired after seventeen years in her position as Executive Secretary at National Headquarters. Landry Foley has been hired to replace her. Landry is a graduate of Indiana University and has 22 years in the Indiana National Guard. Please wel-come her.

Most of you already know that American Legion Camp Director Kevin Moshea is retiring later this year. We all wish Kevin nothing but the best in his future endeavors. And to you Kevin! “JOB WELL DONE”

On Wednesday, March 8th at the Horicon American Le-gion, Dodge County Voiture No. 856 will be conducting a White Collar Wreck. Dinner is served at 6:00 P.M. with the Initiation to follow. Grand Chef de Gare Richard Ruland is scheduled to perform the Initiation. For more information, call Ron Pfalzgraf at 920-485-0107.

Voyageurs and Dames, this last Holiday Season with all of the wonderful Christmas cards we received at Grande Headquarters, I thank you all. Knowing all of the friends my wife Mary and I have made over the years (40) in La Societe for me, I can’t think of a greater Veterans orga-nization I’d rather work for than the Forty ET Eight. God Bless.

FAITH - FAMILY - FORTY et EIGHT

Compliments OfGRANDE VOITURE DE WISCONSINGRAND CHEF DE GARE’S PASSE

President Vice President Secretary Jim Chapin Jim Hying Jim Bassett

Compliments of...

Le Chefs de Gare Passe Clubof Wisconsin

ORGANIZED TO HELPTHE GRANDE VOITURE

For More Information Write To:

Sgt-At-Arms - John Aasen

Sgt-At-Arms - Wayne Hancock

1971 Roland H. Moericke

1972 Robert J. Polaske

1978 Norbert D. Lohuis

1986 Ralph Ricker

1987 Gordon Summerfeld

1991 Wayne Faber

1992 Jerome Warner

1997 Harry Schutz

1998 Gary Dotzauer

2001 Roger Oleson

2002 Carl Sjolander

2003 Lloyd Koeller

2005 Richard Schuh

2006 David Wegener

2007 Don Emley

2008 Tom Orval

2009 Ron Pfalzgraf

2010 Al Ross

2011 Jim Vissers

2013 John Helgeson

2014 Lloyd Granberg

2015 Dale Mitchell

2016 Ken Kozubek

Future Grande Promenades & Midwinter Petites

YEAR EVENT LOCATION2017 Midwinter Petite La Crosse2017 Grande Promenade St. Croix Falls2018 Midwinter Petite Madison2018 Grande Promenade Lake Mills2019 Midwinter Petite Richland Center

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 THE BADGER FORTY ET EIGHTER PAGE 3

RITUALJoseph Story, Directeur Rituals

GRANDE de WISCONSINHOME OF

SOUS CHEF DE CHEMIN DE FER PASSE - DAVE WEGENERGRAND CHEF de GARE PASSE - ROLAND MOERICKE

Germantown Post 1Courtney-Carr-Milner Post 19Lt Ray Dickop Post 36Robert G. Romaine Post 384Fohl Marten Post 483S. Sgt. Henry F. Gumm Post 486Goetz-St. Louis Post 522

Chef de Gare Mike NardelliCorrespondant Dave WegenerCommissaire Intendant Jerry Bentfi eld

The Voyageurs and Dames of

Voiture and Cabane Locale 986

Shawano, Wisconsin

And La Grande Presidentes Passe

Nurses Training Child Welfare POW/MIA Youth Sports Boxcar

Chef De Gare:Correspondant:Commissaire Intendant:

Presidente: Jennifer EnemchukwuCorrespondante: Kathleen GramzaCommissaire Intendante: Kathleen Gramza

Home of Grand Chefs de Gare Passe

La Societe des Quarante Hommes et Huit Chevaux

Norman Kelly, Ralph Ricker,Norman Habeck, Roger Oleson,

Lloyd Koeller, Don Jahnke, & Bob Polaske

Marjorie Ricker, Jermaine Engel,Rosemary Koeller & Liz Jahnke

GRAND CONDUCTEURJim Bassett

Discover everything King can offer you:• Physician • Dentist • Pharmacy • Physical, Occupational, and

Speech Therapy • Lab and X-ray • Social Workers and Pastoral Care • 24/7 Security and Fire Dept.• Movie Theater• Bowling Alley

• Library • Veterans Café • Theater • King Exchange• Numerous Outings/Sponsored

Events• Numerous Gatherings and

Activities on Camp• Social Security Express

Services

N2665 County Road QQ | King, WI 54946 | 715.258.5586 | 888.458.5586

www.WisVets.com

Treating you like

FAMILYWe are a nursing facility.

The Wisconsin Veterans Home at King is a long term and rehabilitative care facility serving veterans and their eligible dependents. We offer quality medical and nursing care to enhance quality of life. Our highly trained and dedicated staff strive to meet the unique needs of veterans by providing compassionate care built on the foundation of integrity, honor and respect. We also welcome qualified non-Wisconsin residents. Call us at 715.256.5027 for a tour.

I hope all Voyageurs and their families had a joy-ous, healthy, and safe holiday season.

As we start a new calendar year, most Voiture Lo-cales have a few members who have not paid their dues. These Voyageurs are now considered delin-quent. Ask your Correspondante Locale to identify those Voyageurs that have not renewed their mem-berships in La Societe. Armed with this information, call the members and ask them to send in their dues so that the programs of La Societe can continue. In ad-dition, if you identify a qualifi ed veteran who is not a member, ask him or her to join. Remember, member-ship is everyone’s job.

Just a note: my email address was listed correct-ly twice and incorrectly once in the September issue of the Badger Forty et Eighter. The correct address is jamescbassett@gmail.com.

If you have not attended a Grand function lately, why not consider joining your fellow Voyageurs at the Mid-Winter Petite Promenade in La Crosse in February? We will have a few meetings and a prom-enade, we will eat a little, and we will socialize with fellow Voyageurs, wives, and Dames. This year, there will also be a Membership Training Seminar. It couldn’t hurt to learn additional techniques to recruit new members or resurrect old ones. Join us, we will have a good time.

Rituals are the ties that bind us. As a Veterans Ser-vice Organization, we have certain ceremonies that we should conduct on an annual basis. They are:

1. A Memorial Service2. A Birthday Celebration

Let us take a moment to briefl y examine each ceremony.The purpose of a Memorial Service is to honor our de-

ceased comrades. We are directed by the Ritual and Man-ual of Ceremonies to at least annually conduct a memorial service. We do that at the Grande level during our Grande Promenade.

The purpose of the Birthday Celebration is to celebrate the founding of La Societe des Quarante Hommes et Huit Che-vaux. This is a ceremony that we, as Voyageurs Militaire, should hold every year in March. I, personally, would like to see the Birthday Celebration conducted every year at the Mid-Winter Petite. That is just my personal suggestion.

The Ritual and Manual of Ceremonies, dated Septem-ber 29, 2015, contains both Memorial Ceremonies and the Birthday Celebration. If your Voiture Locale does not have this manual, please feel free to call me at 715-966-0261 to order the manual.

I hope to see everyone at the Mid-Winter Petite-Promenade.

FAITH, FAMILY FORTY et EIGHT

SPECIAL AWARDSRon Pfalzgraf, Grand Directeur

The Awards are Hero of the Year, Voyageur of the Year, Law Offi cer of the Year, and City or Town of the Year.

Last year, there was not a Hero of the Year submitted. There were 3 Voyageurs of the Year, 1 Law Offi cer of the Year, and 1 City of the Year sent in to Grand. We need to do better next year. The rules are as follows: A candidate for Hero of the Year can only be submitted once for a specifi c deed. Law Of-fi cer the same ruling. Voyageur and City or Town of the Year can only be submitted only once every (3) years.

The Nomination Form must be accompanied with a Partic-ipation Form to be considered. Please make sure the forms are complete and have an attachment of why they are being con-sidered and deserving of the award.

At the Grand Level, we also recognize a separate award for Hero under the age of 18. A plague will be given to the Lo-cale that nominated this person to present to the Young Hero at their Promenade.

The deadline for awards to be received to me is June 10, 2017. This die to the Deadline that I have to award process to Nationale for their qualifi cations!

You can send in any qualifying submissions to me at anytime. If you have any questions, please call me at 920-485-0107.

Send Award Nominations and Participation Forms to: Ronald Pfalzgraf 625 Oak Lane Horicon, WI. 53032

Greetings from Voiture #1519 in Milwaukee County! We just wanted to write an article and let all of fellow Voyageurs from the Grande of Wisconsin know a little bit of what we have been up to since beginning of June, 2016.

On June 28th, we held our annual Installation of Offi cers. We once again were able to have a full slate of offi cers installed. Some of them stayed the same, others were brand new and some recycled themselves as to mentor fellow Voiture members to move up the ladder as they say. You all know the drill.

On October 26th, we held a White Collar Wreck and installed 6 new members into the 40 et 8. Four of those new members belong to Voiture #1519. They are Gary Geissler, Steven Kohnke, Gary Masnak and Jim Walltich. All are outstanding Vet-erans and members of the American Legion. We are continuing to grow as a Voiture which we can honestly say helped us reach our 100% for this year. Members unfor-tunately lose interest, move and unfortunately pass away. As with any organization, it is tough to replace them at times. We have been very lucky this year with recruit-ing. New members are not done by a long shot in reaching out for more.

The week of Veteran’s Day this year (November 8th), we did a Flags for First Grader presentation to fi rst graders of Edgewood Elementary in Oak Creek. We were excited to be able to put this program once again into action. There were 80 students plus some staff in attendance, and they all of course received their own individual 4’’ by 6’’ fl ag. As we went through the program, it was amazing how much the students knew about the American Flag. They almost answered the questions before we could fi nish asking them. I am proud to say that there are parents and family members al-ready teaching Flag education to their sons and daughters. We have been requested to do this program once again around Memorial Day as the word has spread about Voi-ture 1519’s effort in with Flag education in Milwaukee County.

Just within the last few weeks, we held our December Promenade with a belated Christmas early New Years social that evening. After the shorter than normal Prom-

Milwaukee Cty No. 1519 News

Milwaukee County Christmas Party.

enade, we had a very nice time celebrating the end of 2106 and talking about our fu-ture plans for Voiture 1519 in 2017. We were pleased to have 16 Voyageurs plus guest in attendance. Lest I forget to mention……Prime Rib.

As you now have read, Voiture 1519 has been fairly active with membership and a program of the 40 et 8 in the last 6 months of 2016. As 2017 begins, we are going to continue with what we started and continue on with our annual Nursing Scholar-ships. We currently sponsor yearly two students from Alverno College. Time will tell if we can sponsor more as we look for new fundraising ideas to help with the Nurs-ing program and other programs of the 40 et 8.

In closing, I would like to wish all of the Voitures in the Grande de Wisconsin good luck with all of your endeavors now and in the future. As for Milwaukee Coun-ty Voiture 1519, we are not going to let this train stop or jump the track.

Yours in Service,John W Edelblute IVChef de GareVoiture Locale No. 1519 Milwaukee County

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Wisconsin’s OnlyNurses Training

ScholarshipForest

CHEF DE GAREEverett Burdick

PRESIDENTENancy McCullick

CORRESPONDANTJim Frisch

CORRESPONDANTE Cynthia Bomber

GRAND SOUS CHEF DE TRAINJoe Story

Good Day Voyageurs Militaire. Let’s talk mem-bership. As I look at the membership numbers of the Grande de Wisconsin, I am beginning to wonder if some of our members are beginning to think that the 40 and 8 is becoming a last man standing organiza-tion. I personally disagree with those voyageurs who believe that. I have talked with several older voya-geurs who have said that no one wants to join the 40 and 8. I also personally disagree with that statement. On October 23rd, I went to Tomah to attend the ini-tiation ceremony for 7 new voyageurs. And none of the new Voyageurs were older than me. Someone IN-VITED these 5 men and 2 women veterans to become members of the 40 and 8. Now, where do we fi nd these veterans to invite to become members of the 40 and 8?? They are in our family; they are our neigh-bors, they go to our church, they work in our schools, fi re departments, police departments, the local busi-nesses and are members of other clubs we belong to. Bottom line is veterans are everywhere. All you have to do is JUST ASK them to become members. If you are uncomfortable talking to them about becoming members, send me their names and telephone num-bers and I will talk to them on your behalf. My phone number is 715-966-0261.

TO ALL: Grande Cabane Offi cers, Grande Commit-tee Directeurs, Locale Presidentes, Locale Correspon-dantes, Grande Cheminot, Grande Presidentes Passe and members of the Advisory Committee.

This is to advise you that the Mid-Winter Cheminot and Conference is called for Saturday, February 11, 2017 at the AmericInn, La Crosse, WI.

PURPOSE: The Mid-Winter Cheminot and Confer-ence is called for the purpose of providing a time and place for the Grande Committee Directeurs to meet and hear the progress reports of the Cabane Locale Directeurs, and to provide a time and place for the Grande Cheminot to meet and transact such business as may come before it.

PRESENTATION: Grande Cabane Offi cers, Grande Committee Directeurs, Grande Presidentes Passe and Ca-bane Locale Cheminot to the Grande Cheminot. Any Dame may attend the sessions upon presentation of her

current membership card.The Cabane 830 will be the offi cial Hostess for the

Mid-Winter Grande Cheminot and Conference. The Grande Cabane Locales are to be represented in order that their delegates may bring back to them the progress reports and other information.

Each Cabane Locale should compile their Committee reports to date, so that they can be given to the Grande Committee Directeurs for their reporting at the Mid-Win-ter Rendezvous.

The Advisory Committee requests copies of endorse-ments for the Grande Offi ces should be sent to the Grande Correspondante before Mid-Winter Conference so the Committee can meet with the Candidates at that time.

By Order of:Lisa York, La Grande Presidente Mary Orval, La Grande Correspondante

La Societe de Femme Grande Cabane de Wisconsin

Mid-Winter Offi cial Call

To All: Chef de Gares Locale; Correspondants Locale; Grand Voiture Committee Members, Grand Voiture Pro-gram Directeurs, District Cheminots, Grand Voiture Offi -cers and All Voyageurs Militaire.

The following Offi cial Call for the Midwinter Petite Grande Promenade is hereby sent to you for the purpose of notifying you and your entire membership. Correspon-dants Locale are requested to see that their Voiture Locale delegates are instructed and urged to be in attendance and properly represent their respective Voiture Locales and Districts.

TO THE VOYAGEURS MILITAIRE OF WISCONSIN

PURPOSE: The Midwinter Petite Promenade of Grande Voiture de Wisconsin is hereby called to meet in La Crosse on February 10th & 11th, 2017. Friday night is set aside for fun. This event is hosted by Voiture & Cabane Locale No. 830 of La Crosse County.

The Midwinter Petite Promenade of Grande Voiture de Wisconsin is called for the purpose of providing a time and place for the Grande Voiture Committees to meet and hear the reports of the Grand Cheminot and the reports by the Grand Directeur’s of each Committee; Activities, Ameri-canism, Badger Boys State, Carville Star, Child Welfare, Youth Sports, Nurses Training, POW-MIA, Boland Trust Fund, Public Relations, Ritual, and Box Car, and to trans-act any Grande Voiture business that may properly come before it.

REPRESENTATION: In accordance with Article 1, Section1, of the Grand Voiture by-Laws, each Voiture Lo-cale is entitled to one (1) delegate and one (1) alternate for the fi rst fi fteen (15) members; and one (1) delegate and one (1) alternate for each additional fi fty (50) members or fraction thereof; based on the Voiture Locale member-ship thirty (30) days prior to the Midwinter Petite Grande Promenade.

Section 2 of Article 1 provides for all members of the Grand Cheminot, Line Offi cers, and all Grand Chef de Gare Passe in good standing, to be delegates with full vot-ing privileges. This is for all caucuses of their respective Districts and at all sessions.

HEADQUARTERS: The Offi cial Headquarters will be the AmericInn.

HOUSING: All Housing reservations must be made di-rect with the motel. Reservations must be made by January 15th, 2017. The host Locale will make hotel reservations for the Offi cial Family.

SESSIONS: The various events, meetings and pro-grams of the Midwinter Petite Grande Promenade are as follows. All meetings on Friday will take place at the Am-

ericInn. All other sessions of the Grand Midwinter Petite Promenade will be at The AmericInn.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10th, 2017All meetings and Registration Friday will be at the

AmericInn12:00 P. M. TO 4:00 P.M. REGISTRATION1:00 P. M. Committee on Committee Meeting1:30 P. M. Finance Committee Meeting2:00 P. M. Time & Place Committee Meeting2:30 P. M. Badger Forty & Eighter Committee Meeting

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11th, 20177:30 A. M. Grand Chef de Gare Passe Breakfast at the

Hotel Restaurant8:00 A. M. REGISTRATION9:00 A. M. 2017 Midwinter Petite Cheminot

Immediately following the Cheminot meeting will be the opening Session of the 2017 Grand Midwinter Petite

This is where you get to see how a Promenade should be properly opened, closed, and conducted. This is the session where any and all Voyageurs Militaire can ask questions and get the information they desire. Any Voyageur Mili-taire may attend the business sessions of the Grand Prom-enade upon presentation of their membership card and the Offi cial Registration Badge.

Please make every effort to attend the business sessions of the Midwinter Petite Grand Promenade and bring a large delegation from your Voiture with you. It very im-portant for as many Voyageurs Militaire as possible to at-tend these sessions and be able to bring back any and all information obtained at the Midwinter to your respective Voiture Locales.

It is the responsibility of all District Cheminot, Program Directeurs, and their Sous to be in attendance at the Mid-winter Petite to make this Grand function a success.

12:00 P. M. RECESSFollowed by the Chef e Gare Passe luncheon and meet-

ing To Be Determined. 1:00 P. M. RECONVENE 2:30 P. M. ADJOURNMENTImmediately following the closing of the 2017 Midwin-

ter Petite Promenade, there will be a Membership Seminar conducted by Grand and National Offi cers

5:30 P. M. Attitude Adjustment Hour 6:30 P. M. Grande Promenade Banquet

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Richard Ruland-Grand Chef de Gare

Thomas J. Orval-Grand Correspondant Grande Voiture de Wisconsin

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RICHLAND COUNTYVOITURE 1268

LA SOCIETE DES 40 HOMMES ET 8 CHEVAUXRICHLAND CENTER, WISCONSIN 53581

AMID THE SCENIC HILLSOF SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN

Serving Our Famous

Pancake and Sausage Breakfast

March 5, 2017

at the

Richland CenterAmerican Legion Club

Greetings Dames. I hope ev-eryone had a wonderful holiday season. I want to thank those who invited me to Christmas parties. I had a great time at Tri-County on December 2 and Dane-Jefferson County on December 9.

And now I can’t believe it’s a new year already! Where does the time go?

Please remember to keep track of your hours, miles and money spent for the pro-grams of La Societe de Femme. I know I probably sound like a broken record to you, but it really is im-portant to record and report all the good work you do.

Equally important is getting your membership dues paid. Wisconsin is just over 65 percent now, but we should be much higher than that, especially since Barbara Dotzauer, Cabane 1080, is the Sous Presi-dente Nationale for our area. I’m afraid if we don’t start to show more progress, she is going to come af-ter us, and we don’t want that to happen!

Mid-Winter Petite Rendezvous will be held on Feb-ruary 10 and 11 in La Crosse. Each Cabane Locale should send a report of their activities for the year so far, and our Grande Directeurs will compile them and give us a progress report. This is also a good time to brainstorm ideas and have questions about the programs answered. I hope to see a good turnout of Dames for this meeting. Personally, I look forward to Mid-Winter as a way to help cure my cabin fever — seeing all my Forty and Eight and Cabane friends al-ways cheers me up.

GRANDE SR SOUS PRESIDENTEMary Schaller

GRANDE CABANE CORRESPONDANTEMary Orval

Compliments of …Rock County

Voiture Locale 844

GATEWAY TO CRANBERRY COUNTRYCompliments of Monroe Contry

Voiture Locale No. 804

David GoldbeckChef de Gare

Errol MrotekCorrespondant

Milwaukee CountyVoiture 1519

Member of the Mighty 4th District

Chef de GareJohn Edelblute

&CorrespondantClaire Goodfellow

Grande PresidenteLisa York

Hello Dames and Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday and spent time with family and friends in spite of the cold and ice. Don’t you just love living in Wisconsin? We never know what Mother Nature is going to throw at us.

Have you renewed your membership? Check your card, make sure it is bright orange and says 2017. You will need it to attend the sessions at Mid-Winter Petite Rendezvous in February.

Four Cabanes have reached 100 percent: 526, 683, 904, and 1080. Congratulations to you all! And there is more good news: LaCrosse County Cabane 830 has welcomed three new Dames! Grande Cabane de Wisconsin has reached 72.29 percent, with only 46 renewals needed to reach 100 percent. Only three states so far have reached 100 percent. We’re ahead of where we were last year at this time; let’s keep that momentum going. Please continue to work hard at collecting those dues. Time is running short, unpaid members on March 31 are considered delinquent.

Our condolences go out to Helen Meyer, Cabane 830, who lost her husband Harley, a member of Voiture 830.

Please continue to ask family and friends to join our wonderful organization and promote our very worthwhile programs. Don’t forget about the resources that are avail-able from Cabane Nationale. Check them out on the web (www.fortyandeight.org) to keep up with some of the happenings and get other information you might need.

If I can be of help to your Cabane in anyway, please contact me at maryschallerrn@hotmail.com, or 608-786-2398.

My own Cabane will be your hostess for our Mid-Win-ter Rendezvous Feb. 10 and 11 in LaCrosse. I hope to see you there, “weather” or not.

Please stay warm, and keep our veterans in your prayers.

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. It is hard to believe the holidays are over and now getting ready for the incoming New Year.

Membership: Now, we need to get back to our programs and mem-bership. It is time to renew your memberships and get new ones. As of December 29, Wisconsin is at 72.29% with (1) having no re-

newals. Please Dames, work on getting those straggling memberships in so that we can be 100% by Mid-Winter Rendezvous.

Mid-Winter: Mid-Winter Petite Rendezvous will be held at the AmericInn in La Crosse on February 10-11, 2017. Please plan to attend. Dames’ registration of $5.00 per Dame is to be sent to Al Johnson, 840 Mill Street, Apt. 1, West Salem, WI 54669. Please make checks payable to La Crosse County Voiture 830. Remember each Cabane is to bring a report on their activities so far this year for each of our programs. Each Program Directeur will then give an accounting of the Grande Cabane’s progress to date. Di-recteur’s will be receiving a new form at Mid-Winter to re-cord all their activities to date. The Cheminot will start at 9:00 AM on February 11, 2017. The workshop will follow after Cheminot. Please take note of this change. This was done to make sure everyone asks and gets their questions answered on their reports on activities.

All the reports have been mailed out to your Cabane Correspondantes, so please discuss and work on them at your next Rendezvous. Can’t wait to see all those awe-some reports and activities you hard working Dames have been doing and have done on our programs. I would like to start receiving all your reports by the second or third week in June. You can also give them to me if you attend the Camp American Legion weekend. July 1, 2016 is the deadline for all reports.

Endorsements: The Advisory Committee asks that en-dorsements for offi ce be sent to the Grande Correspondan-te or brought to the Mid-Winter Rendezvous so that inter-views can be conducted, if needed. If you or anyone in your Cabane is interested in becoming an offi cer, please submit your endorsement. We also need future Grande Presidentes for the upcoming years.

Dates to remember: Spring Cheminot – TBA at Mid-Winter, if we need one. King Days, June 18, 2017 – 40 & 8 Days Camp American Legion, June 23-25, 2017 – Grande 2017, August 3-6, 2017 at St. Croix Falls.

Around the State with 40 & 8

Feb 10th – 11th Midwinter Petite Promenade - La Crosse

Mar 5th Pancake Breakfast Richland County No. 1268 - Richland Center American Legion

In Memory Of Our Departed Voyageur

CAL SCHMAHLAuthor Of

“40 et 8 Wisenheimer”Voiture No. 1434

Home of Past Grand ChefsJohn Singer 1974

Mike Groshek 1988Jerry Warner 1992

Chef de Gare Correspondant Dave Strelke Dave Strelke

Greetings FromVoiture 831

Bill BabbSusan Knudson

Al Funk

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Teamwork and Having Fun Make the 40 et 8 No. 1

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The Year Around

40 et 8 Days at Camp American Legion

Tom Orval, 40 & 8 Days Chairman

I’d like to start by thanking Grand Chef Rich for ap-pointing me once again as Chairman of this annual event. We are going to try a few different things this year to promote this fun weekend.

For those who are going up on Thursday, we are go-ing to drive over to Three Lakes that afternoon to the Three Lakes Winery to sample their fi ne wines. Down the street, we’ll be patronizing the Three Lakes Amer-ican Legion Post No. 431. They have been taking out an ad for years in the Badger Forty & Eighter, and it’s time to properly thank them. Just a block away is The Black Forest restaurant where we’ll have made reser-vations already.

The Hal Bowen Memorial Stone at Rainbow Flowage.

Overlooking Big Carr Lake.

On Friday, there are two short Committee meet-ings. The Committee on Committee meets for the pur-pose of making recommendations for those Voyageurs who wish to serve on a National Program Committee. Grand Directeur of Special Awards Ron Pfalzgraf and his Committee will be meeting to select winners from the nominations of Hero, Law Offi cer, Towne and Voyageur of the Year.

Friday afternoon is the picnic behind the Rustic Manor and the annual Bean Bag Tournament. We’ll have two sets of boards going this year and a double elimination.

Saturday morning, Dale Mitchell is organizing a fi shing tournament either on Big Carr Lake or Lake Tomahawk. Others will be going on shopping sprees to either Minocqua or Eagle River. Trust me when I say that there are a million shops to see in either resort

town. That afternoon, a number of us will be go-ing on pontoon rides on either Big Carr or Lake Tomahawk. Then, we’ll be out at the Rainbow Flowage for the Satur-day afternoon picnic. This year, there will be steak sandwiches with all of the trimmings and

John Helgeson, Beth Laatsch and Chef Jim Vissers.

for dessert, there will be ice cream. Jim Viss-ers, Dale Mitchell, John

Helgeson and myself are doing the cooking this year.On Friday and Saturday evenings if the weather per-

mits, there will be a bonfi re behind the Rustic Manor. Sunday morning, we’ll all meet out at the Camp for

a delicious breakfast and an update from Camp Direc-tor Kevin Moshea on all of the updates going on at the Camp.

The annual $2,000 donation from the Grande Voi-ture and other donations from Locales, Cabanes and in-dividuals will then be made.

We are planning on purchasing a large show check for picture purposes. I can get one for approximately $65.00 and can change the amount and year.

Forty & Eight Days at Camp American Legion dates this year are June 23rd – 25th. If you plan on being there on Thursday, then make your reservation already for the 22nd. Reservations can be made at the Rustic Manor by calling 715-479-9776. Make sure you men-tion the Forty & Eight when making reservations.

If you have never been up to Forty & Eight Days at Camp, I do urge everyone to make reservations and come on up for without a doubt the most enjoy-able weekend you’ll ever experience with your Forty & Eight family.

I have heard from Voyageurs and Dames from other Grande Voiture’s who are thinking of attending this event. I’m sure if they do, they’ll be back again and again!

The Rustic Manor welcoming the 40 & 8.

It’s time to think about nurses training again. How many times during this past year have you or a

family member had to visit the doctor or a hospital? Who welcomes you and makes you feel more at ease? Nurses are my guess. They are often very warm and loving and caring.

The 40 & 8 gives many wonderful scholarships to nurs-es training students to help them develop all the skills they will need. During the time they are getting their training, we offer scholarships. One of the ways that we earn money to give the scholarships is to sell our nurses training pins.

We have pins from this year and would like to get all of them sold to help add money to the scholarship fund. Pins are a real bargain at only $3.00 each. To get more pins (and I hope you do), please contact me at 752 Beach St. D10 Palmyra WI 53156, or call me at 262-378-1523 (if I don’t answer, please leave a message), or my email ad-dress is cjandptsukowski@gmail.com. I will get them to you through the mail or set them up for you if you’re com-ing to the Mid-Winter Petite Promenade in La Crosse on Feb. 10-11.

Nurses TrainingPat Sukowski

GRANDE DE WISCONSINHarald Kahlert estate $18,500.00

CAMP AMERICAN LEGIONJim Chapin gift in honor of $50.00

Grand Chef Rich Ruland

RICHARD HAVLIK V- 750STEVE SIEGEL V- 750HOWARD JONES V- 830HARLEY MEYER V- 830JEROME KOWALSKI V- 831MELVIN LAIRD V-1139ARTHUR PRITZEL V-1156ROY ROCKE V-1204WILLIAM GREEN V-1434

LA FEMMEVIOLET ROCKE C-1204

MAY THEIR SOULS REST IN PEACE

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY

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Compliments of...

THREE LAKESAMERICAN LEGION POST 431

When in the Region - Stop at the LegionTHREE LAKES, WISCONSIN 54562

Phone 546-3431

place our aging “Parade Locomotive”.

Military funeral ser-vices in and around Richland Center are performed by a Joint Veterans Military Hon-ors Unit. The Honors Unit is comprised of members of The Amer-ican Legion, VFW and Vietnam Veterans. On average, over 70% of the Honors Unit are also members of Voiture Locale 1268, which is

JEFFERSON COUNTY Voiture Locale No. 750

GRAND CHEF DE GARE PASSEART MINNING 1957JOHN MODEL 1973

CHARLES LENZ 1985THOMAS J. ORVAL 2008

DALE MITCHELL 2015

GRAND OFFICERS 2016Dale Mitchell Cheminot National Pat Sukowski Directeur Nurses TrainingRon Zambriski Directeur Public RelationsWalter Weier Sous Directeur RitualDave Behling Aide de CampTom Orval Correspondant

Commissaire IntendantDale Mitchell

CorrespondantTom Orval

Chef de GareDavid Behling

VOITURE LOCALE OFFICERS

Compliments ofDODGE COUNTY

VOITURE AND CABANE 856

Grande Presidente Lisa York

Grand Chef de Gare Passe Wayne FaberGrand Chef de Gare Passe Ron PfalzgrafGrande Presidente Passe Joyce KielGrande Presidente Passe Mary BuschkeGrande Presidente Passe Gloria FaberGrande Presidente Passe Bea GreinerGrande Presidente Passe Judy PfalzgrafGrande Presidente Passe Lisa YorkGrande Presidente Passe Jackie Mitchell

Chef de Gare Frederick VelingCorrespondant Ronald PfalzgrafCommissaire Intendant Tom Meyer

Presidente Lisa YorkCorrespondante Judy PfalzgrafCommissaire Intendant Lisa York

Langlade CountyVoiture and Cabane 1204Tom Matucheski Marie SchuhChef de Gare PresidenteDan Kamps Joyce FederwitzCorrespondant Correspondante

HOME OFNational Chef de Chemin de Fer Passe Don EmleyGrand Commis Voyageur Dale OatmanNational Drapeau Jack EatonNational Sous Directeur Ritual Steve BradleyGrand Chef de Gare Passe 2005 Dick SchuhGrand Chef de Gare Passe 2007 Don EmleyGrande Cabane Presidente 2005 Marie SchuhGrande Cabane Directeur Nurses Training Marie Schuh

Richland County Voiture 1268La Societe Des 40 Homes et 8 ChevauxRichland Center, Wisconsin 53581

Richland Voiture Lo-cale No 1268 Corre-spondant Cecil Groves.

In 1945, 26 prominent and active American Le-gion members and residents of Richland Center and surrounding cities among the scenic hills in Richland County applied for and were granted a charter, #1268 in La Societe. On March 16, 1948, Voyageur Locale 1268 submitted to The Secretary of State of Wiscon-sin the petition, duly authorized by all the offi cers and signed by the Chef de Gare and Correspondant to es-tablish incorporation under Wisconsin Statute 188.12.

Since the inception of Voyageur Locale 1268 in 1945, Richland County has embraced and supported the tenants, principals and programs of La Societe. At this time, it is unknown if there are minutes or histori-cal records of the early years for Voiture Locale 1268 and if they exist, where they might be.

It can be documented with certainty that Voiture Lo-cale 1268 has been offering Nurses Training Scholar-ships for over fi fty (50) years. We have been hold-ing a Pancake and Sausage Breakfast at the American Legion Post 13 Clubhouse in Richland Center twice a year for as long as any living 1268 Voyageur can re-member. The event is always scheduled for the fi rst Sunday in March and again in November. This sin-gle event, held twice a year, has been very success-ful and our only fundraiser. This event has allowed us to offer Nurses Training Scholarships directly from Voiture Locale 1268. It is not known exactly when the fi rst Nurses Training Scholarships, the number or the amount of each scholarship began. We can document that since the year 2000, we have awarded scholarships in the amount of $23,000.00. This past year, we award-ed six (6) $500.00 Nurses Training Scholarships.

In the early years, Voiture Locale 1268 built, main-tained, refurbished and eventually upgraded by replac-ing our “Parade Locomotive”, which is the most visible symbol of La Societe in Richland County. Our “Pa-rade Locomotive” is very recognizable and is frequent-ly requested to participate in a number of events in and surrounding Richland County. Annually, a “Steak Feed” fundraiser is held at the Richland Center Amer-ican Legion Clubhouse. The proceeds from this event are earmarked to maintain, refurbish and eventually re-

in keeping with the ear-ly credo of La Socie-te, where in La Societe was The Honor Society of The American Legion.

Offi cers of Voiture Locale 1268 have assisted a num-ber of children in families that have been victims of fi re or fl ood by providing fi nancial assistance with the necessities of the children under the guidelines of the Charles W. Ardery Child Welfare Trust Fund.

In 2016, Voiture Locale 1268 nominated Richland Center for “The City of the Year Award”, which was subsequently awarded by the Grande Voiture that same year. The city of Richland Center and the citizens have always encouraged and morally assisted Veterans and their causes. Richland Center is the fi rst Purple Heart City in the nation. It also is the home of a beautiful Veterans Memorial with the names of over 8,000 Rich-land County Veterans that served in all the war eras be-ginning with the War of 1812. The Richland County Veterans Memorial is prominently placed along U. S. Highway 14 on land that was donated by the city. As each war era of the Veterans Memorial was unveiled and dedicated, Voyageurs of 1268 were there with the Parade Locomotive front and center as a proud symbol of La Societe and all that we represent.

Horicon American Legion Post No. 157Sponsored by Dodge County Voiture Locale No. 856

March 8th, 2017Meal at 6:00 P.M. with Wreck to follow

Grand Chef de Gare Richard will be the Initiation Offi cer.

Langlade County Voiture 1204, 40 et 8 held an initiation known as a “Wreck”. Welcomed into Voiture 1204 are, from the left, new Voyageurs Militaire Marty Fran-zen, John Zenkovich, Dennis Pukall, Dave Schindler, Kevin Kamps, Frank Charles, and Sid Nowinsky.

In the second row are Chef de Gare Passe Larry Montour, Correspondant Dan Kamps, Conducteur Vern Yonkee, Chef de Gare Tom Matucheski, Chef de Chemin de Fer 2016 Don Emley, Cheminot Steve Koss, Garde de La Porte Terry Depies, Cheminot Stanley Koss, Voyageur Militaire Art Stras-ser, Drapeau National Jack Eaton, and Sous Directeur Hero of the Year Dale Oatman.

White Collar Wreck

North Woods Initiation

HISTORY ROOM REPORTBud Mautz, Grand Directeur History Room

I would like to remind all of our members of the im-portance of our organizations history. Much of that his-tory is on display at the American Legion headquarters in Portage. We have pictures of all The Past Grand Chef de Gares & Past Grande Presidentes with the years that they served. Just this month, Grand Correspondant Tom gave me copies of the printings of the very fi rst Consti-tution and Bylaws of La Societe des Quarante Hommes et Huit Chevaux. These booklets are very rare, very de-sirable and much sought after! They are on display in the museum at Legion Headquarters. We also have many other artifacts of interest going back to the very founding of our great veterans organization. We even have a plaque on display that is not supposed to be there, another black mark on Grand Chef Rich. Our display is not real large, but I think you will fi nd it interesting. It is sort of fun to browse through our past and to think of what we can still accomplish with our devotion to La Societe in the future.

Compliments of

WINNEBAGO COUNTYVOITURE 751

LET’S ALL BE GREAT IN THE BADGER STATEWorking Together As One We Get The Job Done

Chef de Gare Correspondant

Mark Degner Joe Ternes

Presidente Correspondante

Shirley Krier Barbara Dotzauer

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Area Christmas Parties

Public Relations Directeur Ron Zambriski and Grand Chef de Train Doug Schaller posing for the camera.

Grand Chef Rich is presented an award from Jefferson County Chef Dave Behling and Dane County Chef Keith Lovell for his service to La So-ciete in Cottage Grove on December 9th.

Grand Chef Passe Ken Kozubek presents Grand Historian Dale Mitchell with his 1st place plaque for winning the National History Book contest for 2016.

Part of a very good crowd at the Iron Ridge Inn for the Tri County Christ-mas party on December 2nd.

Enjoying the meal and camaraderie.

Grand Chef Rich spreading the good cheer.

Al Funk, Commissaire IntendantRock County V-844 has some changes for 2017. Bill Babb is the Chef de Gare and

Susan Knudson is the Correspondant.V-844 has set up a regular time for Promenades - Noon on the second Friday in

March, May, Sept. and November.After problems with recruiting student nurses to be awarded scholarships, V-844

has established a scholarship fund with the Blackhawk Technical College Foundation. Two students are currently receiving 40 et 8 scholarships of $400.00 each. We are planning to recognize the students at a luncheon early in February.

Happy New Year!

In the 40 & 8 show case at American Legion Headquarters in Por-tage; the original National Constitution and fi rst amended version are on display. We’ll soon have the original Charter on display. The Grande de Wisconsin was chartered on June 2nd, 1922. The charter currently is at Grande Voiture Headquarters.

Original Constitution & 1st Revision

Rock County Voiture No. 844 News