Local Contact Information
The Southeast Valley Optimist Club is being sponsored by nearby Optimist Clubs in Apache Junction, Gilbert & Mesa.
- Gilbert Optimist Club
- Mesa Breakfast Club
For more information you may call or email:
- Danielle Tomerlin - President
- Marilyn Pell - 480-892-2936
- Sue Kruse - 480-797-1754
- Jerry Neild - 480-231-6835
- Jim Warden - 480-964-2018
- Bill Mouw - 480-220-2314
What is Optimist International?
Optimist International is one of the largest and most active service-club organizations. It acts as a “clearing house” of ideas and development tools that can be drawn upon by any Optimist Club when needed.
- Membership: 114,000 (7/31/02)
- Total Clubs: 3,500 (7/31/02)
- First Club: Buffalo, New York, 1911
- O.I. Founded: June 19, 1919
- 6,000,000 young people served each year.
- 65,000 service projects conducted annually.
- $78,000,000 spent annually on community service projects.
More information is available at the Optimist International website at http://www.optimist.org or at the Optimist Arizona Regional website at http://www.azoptimist.org
Optimist Creed
Promise Yourself -
- To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
- To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
- To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
- To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
- To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.
- To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
- To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
- To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
- To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
- To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
