West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 5/21/15
Meeting Notes After a resounding round of applause our Speaker Chair, Mic Goulet, introduced Linda Moxam. She is the Director of Development and Alumni Relations for the University of Michigan - Flint. Linda's first order of business was to thank our club for the...
Downtown Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 5/19/15
Meeting Notes Our speaker chair Steve brought us Bob Nichols from Kettering University. Bob Nichols, director of Special Projects which include the FIRST robotics program, said the district games at Kettering help teams qualify for further competition at state and...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 5/14/15
Meeting Notes We are adding photos to the online directory of members on OptimistsInAction.com. Please show up on May 21 with the clothes on that you would like in your picture. Pictures will be taken and added to the web directory. We did not have a speaker this...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/30/15
Meeting Notes Acting Speaker Chair Mic Goulet introduced Judge Jennie Barkey, who spoke to us about her role in developing and operating the “Mental Health Court” and “Veteran’s Court”, noting how the additional attention and services given to the target populations...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/23/15
Meeting Notes Speaker Chair Steve Schlott (also known as “Father-in-law” and/or “Your Eminence” to Joe Bushey) talked about how he took money from the bank and began fixing up his “getaway cars”: After retiring from banking, he has spent time refurbishing old cars and...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/16/15
Meeting Notes Speaker Chair Steve Schlott eventually calmed things down by introducing Deb Freeman (Trauma Program Manager) and her able assistant Janelle (Clinical Data Analyst) from McLaren Hospital to speak on the topic of “Distracted Driving”. In addition to...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/9/15
Meeting Notes Speaker Chair Steve Schlott introduced Craig Williams, Director at Bishop International Airport, as the morning speaker. Craig came up from Fort Wayne’s airport (to replace Jim Rice) in August of 2014 to manage the 3rd largest airport in the state so as...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/2/15
Meeting Notes The morning agenda --to sort out some of the options for relocation of our regular breakfast meetings (because of Valley Coney Island’s planned sale/closing in June) – spurred vigorous discussion, with several contributors (including Joe Bushey, John...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 3/26/15
Meeting Notes There were 8 speakers at the Oratorical Contest at the Boys and Girls Club. The first and second place winners were unavailable to attend the next competition in Clarkston so the third place winner was offered the opportunity. Pete Venos made a...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 3/19/15
Meeting Notes Our guest speaker was Terri Stangl from Great Lakes Flotation. Terri started out her career as a lawyer and felt under stress all the time as many of us do as we do our jobs. She was one who could not face confrontation and was overwhelmed by her job as...