The Royal Oak Optimist Club

                                                                                                       "Bringing Out The Best In Kids"

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Optimist Gift Exchange Evening Meeting!

The Royal Oak Optimist Club will be meeting in the evening on  Wednesday December 13th, 6:30PM,

at  Mojave Cantina located at 48 West 14-Mile Road in Clawson

just west of Livernois.

SPEAKER/MEETING SCHEDULE

 

 

•The Royal Oak Optimist Club

meets Wednesday Mornings,

7:15 am at Zoe's House of Pancakes

on the SE corner of Woodward Avenue

and Lincoln in Royal Oak

 

 

 

 

 

December 13th--Evening Meeting! 6:30PM at  Mojave Cantina located at 48 West 14-Mile Road in Clawson just west of Livernois.

 

December 20th--Bridget Ajemian--Director

Cathy Wormsbacher--Operations Supervisor

Livingston County Senior Nutrition Program

Western Oakland Meals on Wheels

 

December 27th--Casual Meeting

 

January 3rd--Business Meeting

 

January 10th--Donna Bucciarelli

Beaumont Trauma Center

 

January 17th--Sandy Irwin--Director

Royal Oak Public Library

 

January 24th--tbd

 

January 31st--tbd

 

February 7th--Business Meeting

 

February 14th--Evening Meeting

Greg Kowalski

Hamtramck History Museum

 

February 21st--tbd

 

February 28th--Blessings in a Backpack--RO

Cheryl Whitton--Thank You!

 

March 6th--Business Meeting

 

ROYAL OAK OPTIMIST CLUB

MEMBER ANNIVERSARIES!

 

December Anniversaries!

Fred Meinberg--38 Years

Bonnie Bourque--24 Years

Dawne Ripinski--22 Years

Cas Swastek--16 Years

 

January Anniversaries!

David Paruch--40 Years

Marie Keisoglou--22 Years

 

February Anniversaries!

Tom Larabell--1 Year

 

March Anniversaries!

David Richards--42 Years

Terry Carlson--23 Years

Marc Katz--23 Years

Jason Parrott--14 Years

 

2024 Royal Oak Optimist

Youth Appreciation/

Respect for Law Breakfast

Pictured are Cecelia Irwin, Matthew Matola and Anna Waterstredt from Royal Oak High School, Tyler Mann, Anthony Workman and Jodhi England from Berkley High School, and Angela Hejka, McKenna Ryan-Elbert and Hanna Shomo from Royal Oak Shrine High School.

CONGRATULATIONS

ILENE HARMON-MCGOUGH!

SALTER AWARD WINNER

AS 2023

OPTIMIST

OF THE YEAR!

Valin Szymkowski and his advisor, Paul Surdenik from Churchill Alternative School.

Berkley Public Safety Officer Brian Anderson and Royal Oak Police Department Officer Jacob Gastiaux.

Each year, the Royal Oak Optimist Club supplies every third-grader in Royal Oak Public Schools with a bicycle helmet. At Oak Ridge Elementary, third-graders are flanked by Principal and Optimist Member Jason Parrott on the left and teacher Ms. Kosnik on the right. Thanks to Al Pruner (old guy with gray hair) for putting this together.

CONGRATULATIONS MARIE KEISOGLOU!

2022 ROYAL OAK OPTIMIST OF THE YEAR!

2023 Optimist Park Cleanup Day & 11-Mile Cleanup Day

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEWLY SWORN-IN

2022-2023 ROYAL OAK OPTIMIST BOARD!

 

Thanks to Al Pruner and Patti Shafer, both seen here busy supervising, for organizing these two combined events. Thanks also to Tim and Ilene McGough, Matt Wickey, and Marie Keisoglou for their help as well.

2023 Optimist Oratorical Contest participants from L to R.

Zachary Rodger-Detroit Country Day School, Connor Kalkanis--Detroit Country Day School, Jacob Hopkins--Detroit Country Day School, Sophie Borowski--Orchard Lake St. Mary, Phoebe Navin--Royal Oak Middle School.

 

 

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Royal Oak Optimist Club

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2022 ROYAL OAK OPTIMIST INSTALLATION DINNER HELD ON WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14TH AT CLAWSON STEAK HOUSE

2022 ROYAL OAK OPTIMIST YOUTH APPRECIATION RECIPIENTS

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Jimmy Zink (RO Shrine), Thomas Romito (RO High),

Elyse Finch (RO High), Jane Barnett (RO High), Zoe Mutschler (RO Shrine),

Lucia Thompson (RO Shrine), Sara Cantor (Berkley High), Max Kovinsky (Berkley High),

Robert Wyatt (Berkley High), Alex olde Hanhof (RO Churchill Community High)

Despite some snowy weather the Optimists showed up for their annual Tri-Star Basketball event at the Salter Center on Friday March 10th. Special thanks to Richard Pearce for all of his hard work in making this a success!

 

Thanks to the 2022 Optimist Park Spring Cleanup Crew! Patti Shafer, Allen Pruner, Ilene Harmon-McGough, Kim Neely, Robin Kripli, Marie Keisoglou, and Optimist President Rick Bremer.

Thanks to the 2022 Optimist 11-Mile Road Spring Cleanup Crew! Top photo: President Rick Bremer, Cas Swastek, Allen Pruner, Patti Shafer, and Tim McGough. Bottom photo: Ilene Harmon-McGough, Robin Kripli, and Marie Keisoglou.

+Our Mission

The mission of the Royal Oak Optimist Club is to bring out the best in kids by providing hope and a positive vision

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;

an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

― Winston S. Churchill

+What We Do

The Royal Oak Optimist Club's purpose is to develop optimism as a philosophy of life utilizing the tenets of the Optimist Creed;

 

 To provide an active interest in

good government and civic affairs;

 

 To inspire respect for the law;

 To promote patriotism and work for

international accord and friendship among all people;

 

 To aid and encourage the development of youth, in the belief that the giving of one’s self in service to others will advance the well-being of humankind, community life

and the world.

“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”

― Noam Chomsky

+How We Do It

 

11 Mile Clean up – September and April each year

                Content: Twice a year the Royal Oak Optimists meet at the east side of the Royal Oak Farmers Market parking lot at 7:15 am on a Saturday. The Fall 2015 turn happened September 26, 2015. We met in the parking lot, hung our sign, had a little coffee and mini donuts to boost up our energy and got started. The weather was perfect and the volunteers did their thing! Up and down 11 Mile from Woodward to I-75, Optimists wore their orange vests for safety and walked on the sidewalks against traffic collecting the garbage to make Royal Oak a little better for our community.

 

Youth Appreciation – October each year

 

Essay Competition –

 

Oratorical Competition –

 

Bestest Concert Ever –

 

Bowlabration – Our biggest fundraising event

 

Jr. Golf Outing –Saturday May 21st

 

Memorial Day Parade

 

 Optimist Park Cleanup/Maintenance

 

 

2018 Royal Oak Optimist/Van Every

Bike Helmet Sale

Jack and Patti Salter celebrate Jack's 60 years as a member of the Royal Oak Optimist Club on June 23rd during the Boys and Girls Clubs of Oakland and Macomb Counties Walk for the Future event.

2018 Royal Oak Optimist

Memorial Day Parade Bike Decorating

Spring 2018 Royal Oak Optimist Club 11-Mile Cleanup

2018 Royal Oak

Optimist Club

Park Cleanup

Congratulations

Patty Brown!

2017 Optimist

of the Year!

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO

PAULA MESSNER!

2016 OPTIMIST OF THE YEAR!

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