Meeting notes - November 2, 2012

At our Gresham Optimist meeting yesterday, the club voted to send $100 to the Red Cross East Coast Disaster Fund, and it will allow matching or additional funding through the club.  If you wish to donate (tax free) please send your personal check to Teresa Wallace, our treasurer, or bring it to our next meeting, November 8th.  Make the check out to Gresham Optimists and note it for the Red Cross.   We also reviewed our new monthly bulletin, a work in progress.  The headline is a real mess and needs correcting.  I would appreciate it if you would provide suggestions on how to make it better for you.  You should email me as when things come in print, I can retrieve them better.  (I know we love to talk, but my memory is like my height - getting shorter!)  So, please find the latest Optigraph attached, and I have included a calendar for your referral - also a work in progress.   I'd love to see you at the next meeting - and I mean it!   Judith Hillend, for Melissa Short, Editors

Megan Crandall wins Gresham Optimist Club Essay Competition

Megan Crandall from Reynolds High School presented her winning essay entitled, 'Education is the Key to a Successful Future' to the club today.  Her brilliant composition included her past successes in school and the community, her future with its goals, and her parents’ involvement in her life.  She wrote about how she learned leadership and her involvement in theater. 

Megan’s essay was chosen first place over 137 essays from four different high schools. Her essay moves on to District competition where it will compete with other essays from Optimist Clubs in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

Megan is shown here with Ed DeSantis, President. 

Tri-Star Sports a success in Gresham

The Gresham Optimist Club has completed its first Tri-Star Basketball Program.

Bulletin Editor Jean Jensen says:

"Thank you to Fred and Teresa Wallace for being the chairmen of this year’s Tri Star Sports. We worked with over 700 children over a two day period this past week helping them develop skills to shoot, dribble and pass a basket ball. The kids were so excited about the program and we had a wonderful time working with them.

Thank you to the following members how helped on this very worthwhile pro-ject: Ed DeSantis, Bob Hollingsworth, Tami DeRosiers, George Barron, Jim Slauson, Judith Hillend, Jeanne Zook, Jim and Jean Jensen and Barbara Mayo. I have lots of wonderful pictures if anyone would like to see them."