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La Gazette HEBERT

Volume 1999 - Issue 2                    Abbeville, Louisiana                     December 1996
ABBEVILLE - The organizational meeting of HEBERT families was held as scheduled December 15 in the Mt. Carmel Elem. music room.  After a brief welcome by yours truly and a short but very informative presentation by Mr. Eddie Richard, Director of family reunions for Acadiana West, the HEBERT descendants in attendance elected to name its new association, AThe Association of Heberts of the World.@  The following Officiers were elected:
     Chairperson: Judge Byron Hebert, Abbeville, LA
     Co-Chairperson: Charles Hebert, Houston, TX
     Secretary: Brenda Hebert Desormeaux, Maurice, LA
     Financial Coordinators: Randy Lege, Abbeville and Geri Hebert, Lafayette 
     Standing Committees
          Membership: Sheila Hebert Collins & Jules Hebert, Abbeville, LA
          Publicity: (Help)
     1999 Reunion Sp. Committees
     Coordinator: Russell Gaspard
     Registration: Jules Hebert, Sheila Hebert Collins, Donald and Gloria Hebert, Abbeville, LA
     Education: Joe & Barbara Hebert, Abbeville, LA
     Entertainment: Bobby & Beverly D. Hebert, Abbeville, LA
     Ceremonies: E. Wayne Hebert, Lafayette, LA
     Housing: Russell Gaspard & Edwin Hebert, Abbeville and Paul Hebert, Jennings
     Site: Prep: (Help)
     Food Prep: (Help)
     Program Booklets: (Help)

Judge Hebert made a short acceptance speech and announced the first Board of Directors meeting to take place at his home on January 26 beginning at 2 p.m.   The next general membership meeting will be held on Feb. 16 at 2 p.m. in the Mt. Carmel Elem. Music Rm.  We need your help to make this a great reunion.  Please share this Gazette with your family and friends.  (Thanks, Charlene Broussard Beckett for taking the minutes of this meeting.)


".....practically all of the state's Hebert families descend from Acadian refugees who arrived between the 1760's & 1780's"        Robert C. West

HEBERTS THROUGH THE YEARS:
 (The following excerpt is taken from An Atlas of Louisiana Surnames of Franch and Spanish Origin by Robert C. West.)
     "Represented by more than 6,000 households in the state today, Hebert is Louisiana's most frequent surname of French origin, barely outnumbering Landry.  The name is also common in many parts of France and French - Canada, and in the United States occurs abundantly not only in La. but also in New England, long a recipient of French-Canadian immigrants....  In Louisiana Hebert families have remained largely in the southern part of the state near areas first settled by their forebears."
     ".....practically all of the state's Hebert families descended from Acadian refugees who arrived between the 1760's and 1780's.  At the time of the Expulsion of 1755 Acadia (Acadie) contained a large number of Hebert families, probably all descendants of two brothers, Antoine and Etienne Hebert, who ca. 1640 had migrated from their native town of La-Haye-Descartes in Touraine Province, west-central France.  Like their Acadian compatriots, the Heberts were widely dispersed by the British, some being exiled to England and then to France, others sent to the seaboard colonies from Massachusetts to Maryland; some escaped into Canada and others eventually reached Louisiana."
(to be continued in later issues of La Gazette HEBERT)

ABBEVILLE, Louisiana, chosen by the newest HEBERT Association to be the site for its 1999 CMA-LA Reunion:
     "During the month of August 1999, Louisiana will witness the greatest influx of French-speaking people since 'Le Grand Derangement' (the big displacement) of the Acadians in the 18th century.  The reason for this event is to celebrate the Congres Mondial Acadien-Louisiane 1999 (the Acadian World Congress-Louisiana 1999).  The theme of this gathering will be AReunion en Louisiane 1999." (Guidry-LaParole)
     The HEBERT family will hold its reunion on the weekend of August 6-8, 1999, on the campus of Mt. Carmel-Vermilion Catholic Schools.
     Abbeville is a quaint French settlement located in the heart of Acadiana.  Its people are known for their friendliness, joy of life, good food and great cooks.  It can boast of the only Giant Egg Omelet in the U.A.  (Maybe we can prevail on the omelet's Chevaliers to put on a mini-Egg Omelet Festival for our visitors in 1999.)

EVENTS CALENDAR: FrancoFete 1999
FrancoFete is a yearlong, statwide event to commemorate the tricentennial of the establishment of the first permanent colony by the French in the Louisiana Territory.
It will begin January l, 1999, and run through December 31, 1999.  FrancoFete will 
showcase Louisiana's precious French patrimony: its history, its people, its culture.
Congres Mondial Acadien-Louisiane is an important component of FrancoFete.
(FrancoFete-La Parole)

Les Hebert de Nouveau Brunswick - - - L'Association des Hebert d'Acadie:
The Association of Heberts of Acadia will host its reunion in Cocagne, New Brunswick, on July 15, 1997 in the Area of Grand-Pre, Nova Scotia, just a couple of hours away from Cocagne, N.B., the Acadians will be celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Longfellow's AEvangeline."           (Quelle belle vacance!)
La Gazette HÉBERT
Official Newsletter of The Association of Héberts of the World
c/o Russell Gaspard, Editor P. O. Box 375 Abbeville, LA 70511-0375 Fax: 318-893-4119

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