Optimist Club Events

Hello fellow Optimists!

Thank you for all of your dedication and enthusiasm for the 2006-2007 academic year! Here is a brief recap of all the great projects we accomplished this year:

1. Cancer Ward Gift Bag Project:
- Raised $387.50 from the CPK event
- Purchased 3 gameboys & 19 games
- Delivered 75 gift bags to the ward

2. GIVE Project
- Volunteered a combined total of 105.5 hrs
- Raised $2,787.49 for Optimist youth projects for next year

3. Canned Food Drive
- Encouraged campus-wide donations
- Packaged and delivered 28 boxes full of canned goods to IVYP Family Resource Center

Cheers and here's to next year! :)

Best,

Karen Ko
Optimist Club President

Upcoming Events

November, 2008:
IV Elementary School Bike Rodeo

Nov./Dec., 2008:
Cancer Ward
Gift Bag Project

Optimist Photo Gallery

Optimists with Congresswoman Lois Capps
at the MS Bike-a-thon.

Helpful Links

Got your emergency kit ready? Here are some tips from the Red Cross website on how you can prepare your family and yourself in case of an evacuation:

Get a kit. Make a plan. Be informed.
(interactive online education on disaster preparedness)

Wildfire safety

Comprehensive Disaster Supplies Kit

American Red Cross Emergency
Contact Card

Member Update

Congratulations to new Optimist Club @ UCSB officers for the 2008-2009 Academic Year!

New Vice President: Chuck Champlin
New Board Member: Alycia Lewis, DeeDee Dixon

And a big congratulations to Mark Weinsoff for your new position as Vice President of Optimist International on the West Coast!

News Update (updated July 3, 2008)

GIVE PROJECT
Last year Optimist members raised $1,118.37 through the G.I.V.E. Project last year...

This year, we raised $2,787.49!!! AMAZING!
Thank you to everyone who volunteered their time and energy to this event:
Mark Weinsoff- 47.25 hrs.
Tony Tieu- 19 hrs.
Karen Ko- 9.5 hrs.
Diana Mina- 5.25 hrs.
Nicholas Mina- 5.25 hrs.
Chuck Champlin- 4.75 hrs.
Victor Bartolome- 4 hrs.
Jake Rodriguez- 3 hrs.
Ethan Chapin- 2.25 hrs.
Lesley Powles- 2.25 hrs.
Erika Cornejo- 2 hrs.
Ruby Young- 1 hr.

Together, we worked a combined total of 105.5 hours! Fantastic!

CANNED FOOD DRIVE

Thank you to everyone for a very successful canned food drive! With all of our various food drop off locations on campus, combined with a generous food donation from the GIVE Project, we were able to collect enough canned goods to fill 28 copy paper boxes! WOW! And all of this benefits the IVYP Family Resource Center! We couldn't have done this without everyone's help, so thank you!

**A special thanks to Mark Weinsoff and Tony Tieu for picking up the canned goods from the GIVE Project and bringing it back to campus- there were a ton of cans, and you guys powered it through in an hour!

CANCER WARD GIFT BAG PROJECT:

Thank you all for your participation in our previous Optimist Club @ UCSB's fundraiser for the Cancer Ward Gift Bag project. We raised $387.50 from the California Pizza Kitchen event, and with that money, we were able to purchase 3 gameboys (Nintendo DS) and 19 games for the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Pediatric Oncology Ward!!! In addition, we delivered 75 gift bags to the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Pediatric Oncology Ward. These gift bags consisted of art supplies, books and toys -- over half of which were donated by YOU!!! An article (with photo) was written in the Santa Barbara News-Press on December 10, 2007.

"Optimist Creed"
Promise yourself
• To be so strong nothing disturbs your peace of mind
• To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to everyone you meet
• To make all your friends feel like 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 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.