When asked if he has a motto for life, Don Freimuth answers with a smile and points at the Optimist Creed hanging on the wall, something he has memorized. To be so strong that nothing can disturb your ...

Promise yourself to think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds. This is the eleventh stanza of the Optimist Creed authored by Christian Larson ...

If you want to sit around griping about the state of the world, don’t do it at a meeting of the St. Paul Optimist Club. They don’t call themselves “optimists” for nothing. The club members are “people ...

Students from all four of Davenport’s high schools were recently awarded scholarships by the Davenport Noon Optimist Club. The Davenport Noon Optimist Club’s Promise Awards recognize students who ...