Toasts, Speeches & Dedications

Great resources for reunion speeches

These are four books that are great resources for anyone who is responsible for doing any kind of speech or presentation at your reunion. Bite-sized...

Q and A

Q? Renita Wigfall e-mailed: I'm in search of a poem or story to be read at my family reunion. I am seeking something rather profound....

The Ultimate Sacrifice

The following devotion is by Thomas A. Phelan, Bergenfield, New Jersey, a World War II and Korean War veteran. He wrote this for the men...

What is a Family Reunion?

The Canty family of Pike County, Alabama is huge. Our FAMILY ROOTS book holds more than one thousand names that span 9 generations. We now...

Family is…

The following was written and read by Angela Tomaselli at the Warren-Pulley Family Reunion. Family is… Family is… A woven fabric from the strongest and...

Smiling is Infectious

Smiling is infectious, You catch it like the flu. When someone smiled at me today I started smiling too. I walked around the corner And...

The Occasion by Carole Neal

Carole Neal, as a revered elder, former reunion planner, current Reunion Champion and recipient of the 2014 Neal Family Reunion Ambassador Award was asked to...

Speak to be Remembered

"Speak to be remembered and repeated" is advice given by speech-coaches. Isn't that the goal of every speaker -- to be remembered and repeated? Presidents...

More Sources for Inspiration

We are often asked to provide reunion words and over time have developed these suggestions for you to explore. Something favorite from the Bible, Shakespeare,...

The Family Tree

I think that I shall never see The finish of a family tree. As it forever seems to grow From roots that started long ago...