Governor’s Welcome

Fellow East Missouri Optimists

I would like to take this time to thank each and everyone one for the opportunity to serve as your Governor this coming year 2012-2013. I’m excited about our year and our team that we have put together to serve you this upcoming year. We just had our training for our team members and we had a real good turnout. Everyone is excited and ready to go to work.

We want to make our district meetings educational and informative so everyone goes away with something and they feel good about what they have learned.  I will be very open to suggestions from all of you about what you would like at our district meetings. These meetings are your meetings I’m just here to see that we get the message and information out to everyone in the District so we can support our kids in our areas.

International President J.C. St-Onge said in a letter to all Governors, Today is a new beginning. Today we will start to change our future. Today we will all work together to make a better world for the generation to come. Today and all year we will work. ‘’For the Future’’

Our District theme for this year is “Brightening the Future of Our Kids”

How do we make our theme come true? First we will look at New Club Building, Membership, and most of all retaining our membership. These three key elements will make us successful in our coming year. I will be asking every one of you to set goals for your clubs and then work your goals throughout this 2012-2013 year and we will have a great year helping our district kids.

Remember, we are “Optimists” and we are achievers and doers.

Thanks,

Yours in Optimism

Larry W. Ream