UW-Whitewater/Community Optimist Club

Greetings Everyone,

The latest signup sheet for helpers for Breakfast with Santa on December 6 is here BWS Sign UP 20141118 merged.

Regarding Warhawk Football playoff ticket taking, we are good for this week (November 22) but still need some help for the other three (3) games.  Please let us know if you can cover any of the open shifts!  Thanks!!

Trivia Night 2015 will be February 20, 2015. Check the flyer for further details.TriviaNight

That’s all for this update.

Share the Optimism,

Dave Halbach

UW-Whitewater/Community Optimist Club

920-650-6089 or 262-472-5749

http://blogs.uww.edu/uwwcommunityoptimist/

http://www.optimist.org/

http://www.swisdistrict.org/

http://uwwstudentoptimist.blogspot.com/p/uw-w-student-optimist-club.html

Greetings Everyone,

I’m confused… the calendar says it’s November but it feels like the middle of January outside!

For football fans in our little part of the world, this past weekend was pretty good, except for the down-to-the-wire comeback of the Warhawks, that was nerve racking!

We had a very nice turnout for last week’s evening meeting with 17 club members attending. Thanks everyone for attending. Our next evening meeting will be Wednesday, December 10 at 5pm at Jessica’s Restaurant in downtown Whitewater.

As a follow up to Therese Kennedy’s email from earlier today:

• Ticket takers are still needed for this Saturday’s football playoff game at Perkins Stadium.
• Our club meeting this week is tomorrow, November 18, at 12:00 Noon in the UC. We will be in the lower level of the UC, not our usual meeting room. Join us at rooms 068 & 069. It will be Youth of the Month and our program will be the drummers from LINCS (Lincoln Elementary school) under the direction of Christine Hayes. Lunch cost is $7.

Remember, no meetings the week of November 24.

Denise Kaminski has been coordinating Breakfast with Santa for the last couple of weeks but is now out of commission for around 6 weeks. Many of you have already stepped up to help with tasks for December 6^th  (THANKS!). Additional help is still needed and always appreciated. I’ve attached the signup sheet that Denise sent out last week. If you haven’t already signed up to help, please consider doing so and send the document back to me. WE COULD REALLY USE A “POINT PERSON” FOR SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6!

Our December 2 noon meeting on campus will include our two club interns speaking about their experience this semester AND we’ll be stuffing goody bags for Breakfast with Santa.

That’s all for the moment!

Share the Optimism,

Dave Halbach

UW-Whitewater/Community Optimist Club

920-650-6089 or 262-472-5749

http://blogs.uww.edu/uwwcommunityoptimist/

http://www.optimist.org/

http://www.swisdistrict.org/

http://uwwstudentoptimist.blogspot.com/p/uw-w-student-optimist-club.html

Hi Everyone,

The Board members will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, November 11 at Noon in the University Center, room 260. I’ll provide a recap of the meeting at our Wednesday evening meeting, along with Breakfast with Santa and Trivia Night updates.

A reminder that this week’s meeting will be Wednesday evening, November 12, 5pm at Jessica’s Restaurant.

Next week’s Tuesday meeting will be something out of the ordinary. I have moved the lunch for the Optimist Club on November 18 to University Center rooms 068 & 069 in the lower level. That will give us enough space for the drummers from LINCS, the Youth of the Month students, guests, and staff from the WMS (I think it’s WMS, or else WHS), and the expected 12-16 club members. Lunch will begin at 12:00 PM, served from a buffet line in room 069. Guests and members can disperse between the two rooms to eat at the 8 tables shared between the rooms.

At about 12:20 I’ll ask everyone to move to the Summers Auditorium for the program.

1. We’ll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Then I’ll have club related announcements.
3. We’ll introduce the two Youth of the Month and their guests and take a few pictures.
4. About 12:30-12:35 the drummers from LINCS, under the direction of Christine Hayes, will begin.
5. 12:55, wrap up and saying of the Club creed.
6. Dismissal by 1:00pm.

With the Warhawk football team at least earning the automatic NCAA playoff bid, the campus will likely be hosting one or more playoff games. Be on the lookout for ticket taking signup info coming out this week or early next week.

That’s all for now.

Share the Optimism,

Dave Halbach

UW-Whitewater/Community Optimist Club

920-650-6089 or 262-472-5749

Hi Everyone,

• This week I’d like to thank Kim Adams and Angie Alesci for hosting our evening meeting/social for October. There was a nice group of club members that gathered last Thursday night. Beside the socializing, we were able to formally initiate Kate & Ken Ksobieck and Teshona Bennett. Welcome to the Club (formally speaking)!
• This week is Youth Appreciation Week. I found the following on the OI web site about the program.

“In 1957, Optimist International celebrated the first observance of Youth Appreciation Week on an international basis to recognize and commend children and teenagers who are too often given a bad rap.

Youth Appreciation Week was created by late Optimist T. Earl Yarborough, who developed the program after recognizing the fact that youngsters are almost never publicly praised and commended. With the help of two fellow Optimists, Yarborough worked to promote the idea of a Youth Appreciation Day. His efforts paid off and his home state of North Carolina observed the very first Youth Appreciation Day on May 22, 1955.

The following year, Optimist International scheduled a Youth Appreciation Week program on a pilot basis in five states and one Canadian province. Acceptance and enthusiasm of the program led to the first international Youth Appreciation Week in fall 1957.

Because of Earl Yarborough’s many community efforts and his work in creating Youth Appreciation Week, a lifetime achievement award in Optimist service was named in honor of him.”

•  We have approximately 70 students and staff from the Whitewater schools and 13 Optimist club members planning to attend tomorrow’s luncheon. If you want to attend but haven’t notified Therese Kennedy already, please RSVP me ASAP so I can work catering in the morning to adjust the final numbers for lunch.
• As you probably noticed last week, planning for Breakfast with Santa is underway. Thanks to all those who’ve indicated when/where/how they can help. At this point we still need someone to help coordinate the event over the next month! Many of the tasks are already being worked on so that will help. Please consider being the planner/co-planner for this year’s Breakfast with Santa.
•  And having Santa on site would be good for that day also!!
•  Next week there WILL NOT be a Tuesday lunch meeting. Instead, we will have an evening meeting Wednesday, November 12 at 5pm at Jessica’s Restaurant.
•  Board Members, please remember that we’ll have our monthly meeting at 12:00 PM on Tuesday, November 11.

That’s all for the moment.

Share the Optimism,

Dave Halbach

UW-Whitewater/Community Optimist Club

920-650-6089 or 262-472-5749

http://blogs.uww.edu/uwwcommunityoptimist/

http://www.optimist.org/

http://www.swisdistrict.org/

http://uwwstudentoptimist.blogspot.com/p/uw-w-student-optimist-club.html