UW-Whitewater/Community Optimist Club

Janay Newman is our Spring 2018 Optimist Club Intern! She is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is a senior with a Public Relations major, and Marketing minor. Janay indicates that she is an optimist–“My reason is in the name: ‘Optimist’ Club.  I am so happy that I have been given the opportunity to help others in the Whitewater community and to simply do good for those around me.”  She says “One thing that I love about Whitewater is that everyone seems to be associated through at least one mutual connection, leading to a high sense of community.  Being from a larger town, I think that I really missed out on that feeling while growing up, but being in Whitewater gives me a chance to catch up.” Janay’s goals for the year are to “utilize my skills learned from classes and other job opportunities, and channel them into my position with the Optimist Club to do my personal best.”

To give so much time to improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others is the statement from the Optimist Creed that best describes her.  Janay says, “I find that many people spend a lot of their days comparing or competing, while they forget to simply be their best selves, including myself.  I think that this statement is a great reminder to be kind to others, while always working on self-improvement.” Welcome Janay!