Rolla Optimist_Newsletter_102115

Friend of Youth Since 1964
Sell Flapjack Tickets!!
Week of October 21, 2015
President’s
Corner
Calendar of Events
October
21 - Nick McGraw, Youtube
Filmmaker, Penelope’s,
5:45 PM
21 - Basketball Signups,
5:30PM-7:30PM
Mark Twain Cafeteria
November
7 - Flapjack Day, St. Patrick’s
Parish Hall, 6AM-1PM
Optimist Selfies!!
Submit your own!
Youtubing!!
The meeting on
October 21 is at
Penelope’s
Optimist
Dick reports
that his back
is glad that
soccer is
over!!!
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Come on out to the meeting
tonight to get your Flapjack Day
Tickets!!! Flapjack Day is November 7 and will be held at St.
Patrick’s Parish Hall.
Optimist soccer is completed for the fall. Thanks to all of
the Optimists and volunteers who
helped. It was a very successful
season!!
Basketball signups are this
Wednesday from 5:30PM-7:30PM
at Mark
Twain Cafeteria.
Thanks to Optimists Bennie Terrell and B.J. Cooksey for chairing
the Boy’s and Girl’s Programs respectively!!
Nick McGraw did some
grilling at the soccer fields Saturday and has agreed to speak at
this week’s meeting. He is a
youtube filmmaker and very interesting young man.
We have three new member
applications, Jose and Amy
Torres sponsored by Optimist Bill
Bales and Danielle Stagner, sponsored by Optimist Jill Cooksey.
Click on this text or the
picture to the left to hear
OI President Dave Bruns
New Year Message!!!
Officers 2015-2016
PRESIDENT: JILL COOKSEY
Optimist International
Website
East Missouri
District Website
(573) 426-2211
1ST VICE PRESIDENT:
The Optimist Creed
LINDSEY SHOCKLEY (573) 426-2211
2ND VICE PRESIDENT:
Promise Yourself
PAUL MCMAHON (573) 426-2211
PAST-PRESIDENT:
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace
SHERYL PARKER (573) 341-2646
of mind.
PRESIDENT-ELECT:
MARK CALVERT (573) 426-2211
To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every
person you meet.
SECRETARY:
DEVONNA MARSHALL (573) 465-2254
To make all your friends feel that there is some-
TREASURER: JANET GILL (573) 426-2211
thing in them.
1 YR BOARD:
To look at the sunny side of everything and make
ROB BARTH (573) 426-2211
your optimism come true.
KATHERINE STANISLAWSKI (573) 426-2211
CHARLIE GILL (573) 426-2211
To think only of the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
2 YR BOARD:
JERRI DAVIS (573) 426-2211
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of oth-
DICK SMITH (573) 426-2211
ers as you are about your own.
KATIE FOX (573) 426-2211
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to
the greater achievements of the future.
NEWSLETTER EDITORS:
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and
DEVONNA MARSHALL
give every living creature you meet a smile.
ERIC BOHANNAN
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To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
OPTIMIST CLUB OF ROLLA
MESSAGE LINE: 426-2211
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too
http://optimistrolla.org/
strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
http://www.rollanet.org/~optimist/
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Soccer Photos Ruined
Top: Optimist Lydia poses with unr uly soccer team that she
coached. Bottom: Optimist Eric poses with soccer team with which
he had no involvement.
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Youtubing with
Nick McGraw!!
Nick McGraw visited the soccer fields last Saturday and put
together a video of his adventures. Click the photo above to
learn about Nick’s day of volunteering and be sure to attend
the meeting on October 21st at Penelope’s to learn more about
Nick’s adventures!!
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Optimist Basketball
Rolla Optimist youth basketball sign-ups will be Saturday, October 17, 2015, from 10:00 AM-1:00 PM and Wednesday, October
21, from 5:30-7:30 PM in the Mark Twain Elementary School
cafeteria. The program is open to girls enrolled in 3rd -8th grade
and boys enrolled in 3rd -8th. The program is free, but donations
are encouraged. Girls will have their player evaluations October
28 at Rolla Junior High, with practices and games on Wednesdays and Saturdays in November and December. Boys will have
player evaluations November 21 10am-2pm, with games and
practices in January and February 2016. Please join the Rolla
Optimist Basketball Group on Facebook for more information.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/RollaOptimistBasketball/
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What Does That
Spell??
Hint: It’s November 7 and if you need tickets to sell,
they will be available at Wednesday’s meeting!!!
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Rolla Optimists attend Birthday Party
For Brentwood Optimists.
Asked politely to leave Ballpark Village
And local Fudgery.
Top Left: Bir thday Crew!! Top Right: Free sample policy being
abused. Bottom Left: Offer of free chips results in walker being propelled out of reach of owner. Bottom Middle: Abuse of free chips policy. Bottom Right: Substantial meat left on chicken wings by Optimist Eric.
Happy Birthday Mike, Kristen and Jody!!!
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District Meeting
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Click anywhere below to download a new
member application!!
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