Voiture #1261 is Headquartered in Manhattan, Kansas with membership comprised of Legionaires from Legion Posts within Riley, Pottawatomie, Wabaunsse, Morris and a portion of Geary Counties. Meetings (Promonades) are held the fourth Monday of each month and are rotated at the following American Legion Posts; Ogden, Manhattan, St. George, and White City and Council Grove.
Currently our major fund raising project to advance our charitable projects is a weekly Bingo which is held the every Sunday at the Manhattan VFW Post from 6:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M.. Our initial Bingo startup at this new location began Sunday 8 October and is doing very well for helping us raise the funds needed to meet our cheritable goals.
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Months Bulletin (click on it to see large view)
If you have not paid your year 2001 dues please do so soon, we are running right at quota and another voiture has already reached 100%, send your $22.00 to your correspondent at P.O. Box 223, White City,KS 66872, or better yet attend our next promenade.
John R. Lee
Correspondant
More
than 8100 American POW/MIAs from the Korean War and 2,200 missing or captured from the Vietnam War remain unaccounted for, additionally 78,000 are still missing from World War II and 130 missing from the Cold War.
Child
Welfare Youth Sports 
National Disaster Relief: The first year of the National Disaster Relief program of La Societe shows an achievement which generated over $2 million dollars of food, clothing, water, furniture, and other essentials delivered to victims of disaster.
Child Welfare: Today our efforts touch over 1,300,000 children annually, with an annual investment of over 8 million dollars.
Youth Sports: Voyageurs provide funds, through grants, to needy athletes and teams so they may attend and participate in amateur sporting events. The motto of the Youth Sports program is: No athlete shall stay home for lack of funds.
Nurses Training: Voyageurs have granted in excess of 20 million Dollars since the inception of our Registered Nurse Scholarship programand graduated over 23,000 Registered Nurses.
Carville Star: Voyageurs provide over 90% of the funding for the Carville Star, which is the publication on research dealing with Hansen's Disease (Leprosy).
Americanism: Voyageurs sponsor various Americanism projects, respect for the flag, and annual Law Officer of the Year and an annual Hero of the Year Award.
VA and American Legion Help Numbers
Our officers are:
Chef de Gare Steve Ash
Chef de Train Everett Budenbender
Conducteur Bob Rochon
Correspondant John Lee
Commissaire Intendant Don Cooper
Garde de la Porte Richard Allen
Commis Voyageur Walt Royer
Aumonier Joe Riniker
Avocot Don Shepek
Drapeau Jim Clark
Contact email: rstenger@tctelco.net
1261@angelfire.com
johnlee_1@angelfire.com
pash@tctelco.net
TheChef De Gare has made the following appointments for the up coming year:
Voyager Bob Rochon Sous Chef De Train
Voyager Don Yothers Director of Americanism
Voyager Don Shepek Avocot
Voyager Jim Schroer Director of Child Welfare
Voyager Don Yothers Director of Nurses Training
Voyager John Lee Publiciste
Voyager John Lee Correspondant
Voyager Jim Schroer Sous correspondent
Voyager Steve Ash Sous Cheminot
Voyager Don Cooper Commissaire Intendant
Voyager Don Yothers Director of VAVs
