The OPTIBULLETTE

Established 1958

Meetings:
Wednesday Mornings at 7:00 am
Kosciusko County Fair Grounds / Shrine Building
1400 E Smith Street, Warsaw, IN 46580
Mailing Address:
PO Box 344, Warsaw IN 46581-0344

Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club, November 13, 2024

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Presiding – Paul Finley

Attendance – 62

Greeters – Lester Pierce & Bob Rich.  

Guests – Chris McCray

Birthdays– Dr. K. T. Kishan Tuesday, Nov 12, John Sullivan Thursday, Nov 14, Dr. Pam Galloway, Sept. 11  (We missed It). 

Announcements– 

  • Optimist International Foundation – Pam Galloway 
  • Salvation Army Bell Ringing– David Byers, we have two spots needed to be filled.

Membership– Kris Williams, Dana Munson from Saucy’s, Friend of The Optimist.

Dana Munson, Friend of the Optimist.

Membership Moment – Brittany and Jim interview Art Gakstatter, early days on a farm and fast cars.

50/50– Kris, $33 goes to the winner Marv Miller.

Sergeant(s)–  Tracy Furnivall, Brooke Hamstra and Jeff Owens. 

Tom Tearney is playfully reprimanded for not including the Optimist in his Esther Pfleiderer speech at the BBBS banquet.
Tracy Furnivall is presented with enough coffee cups for a lifetime. We wanted to make sure he never losing his coffee mug again.

Program – Rick Swaim introduces Compassion International – Josh Grill 

Josh Grill preparing to speak.

Did you know there’s a basketball court in the US Supreme Court building?

Located on the top floor of the US Supreme Court building, the former storage room was turned into an exercise area for courthouse employees in the 1940s before nets were eventually installed. It is now known as the “highest court in the land.”