Q3 District Conference 2024-2025

Spring is busting out all over and that is exactly what we are doing in the Ohio District. Please mark your calendars for the 3rd conference this year on May 3, 2025. In my opinion, it is the most interesting and fun conference of the year. Optimists are all about service to children…well at this conference we will be hosting the best in the Oratorical contest and the final Essay and CCDHH contest winners. You will be able to hear these fantastic students tell us about how Optimism helped them through challenging times in their lives. Please come to honor these students. Let’s fill the room with support and encouragement!!

It is truly a day well spent in service. You will learn about a successful fundraiser and the incredibly talented Mike Bevis, a fellow Optimist, will discuss both member recruitment and retention as well as new club building. It is springtime after all, a time for growth, a perfect time to hear how all clubs can grow. Growth means having more people to serve more children. That is what we are all about. Serving Children. “Let’s Grow” our clubs!

At the same time, we will be provided with unbelievably valuable life-supportive leadership training from Mike Zywien. This series is the third in the series. The series has been well accepted. Learn not only how to lead your club but how to grow personally and professionally. Mike is aware that you are ALL the leaders in your clubs, but the series is provided so you can take it back to your clubs. The future of the Optimist Organization is about the future leaders and this series on leadership supports and trains those leaders.

We are doing something a little different this conference. The conference will end at 4:30 Saturday afternoon. There will not be dinner. I hope you can spend the day with us. I promise you it will be well worth it.

Yours in Optimism,

Terry Schalnat – Governor

Saturday Lunch (included with registration)

• Garden salad
• Beef pot roast
• Fried chicken
• Mac & cheese
• Green beans
• Cookies

No Banquet Meal Saturday Evening

Pricing

• Conference registration is $50.
• Friday evening dinner is NOT included.
• See note at the bottom of this page about what the registration covers.