OPTIZETTE

A Publication of the Niles Noon Optimist Club

Meetings every Tuesday at Noon at the Orchard Hills Country Club on Niles-Buchanan Rd. in Buchanan, MI ¨ Zone 19 Michigan Regional District

 

VOL. XXX, NO. 040803 ¨ ERIKA KIRTDOLL, PRESIDENT ¨ DIANE BASS, EDITOR ¨ P.O. BOX 63 NILES, MI 49120 ¨ APRIL 8, 2003

 

DATELINE: Tuesday, April 8, 2003. The Niles Noon Optimist held an informal meeting during lunch to review with the membership possible new locations for our Tuesday meeting. We dined today at the Elks Club in Niles, one of the possible locations for our future meetings. The food was wonderful. About 27 members participated. After all discussions were complete, the group voted to choose the Orchard Hills Country Club as our new location.

 

 

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Niles Noon Optimists have a new meeting place. The Orchard Hills Country Club will be the new location of the Niles Noon Optimist meetings. Orchard Hills is located between Niles and Buchanan on Niles Buchanan Rd. Please plan on attending our first meeting this coming Tuesday, April 15th. See you there!

 

 

If you’d like to see previous issues of the Optizette visit our site at www.nilesoptimist.org or visit the international site at www.optimist.org. Don’t forget the Niles JOOI Club site is www.jooi.org .

 

THOUGHTS FOR TODAY:

"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less." Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) Civil Rights Activist

"Act as if it were impossible to fail." Dorethea Bronde (1893-1948) Writer

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." Maori Proverb

TODAY IN HISTORY: April 8

1652: Cape Town in South Africa is founded by Jan van Riebeeck as a supply post for the Dutch East India Company.

1973: Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso dies at his villa in France at age 91.

1974: In Atlanta, Georgia, baseball great Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run, breaking the record previously held by Babe Ruth.

1990: Ryan White, the U.S. teenager whose battle with AIDS promoted public understanding of the disease, dies at 18.

1992: Yasir Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), survives a plane crash in the Sahara Desert; the plane's three crew members perished.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS: April 8

Buddha, founder of Buddhism (563 BC)

David Rittenhouse, clockmaker, mathematician, and astronomer (1732)

Harvey Cushing, brain surgeon (1869)

Sonja Henie, ice skater and actor (1912)

Jim "Catfish" Hunter, baseball player (1946)

MIND BENDING LATERAL THINKING:

A man died on January 23rd yet was buried on January 22nd. Why the premature burial?

Answers to Mind Benders are listed below. Our thanks to Optimist Tom Clabaugh who has provided these mind benders.

 

 

WHO AM I?

Born on this day in 1893, I was nicknamed "America's Sweetheart" for my innocent film image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MIND BENDING LATERAL THINKING ANSWER:

The man died in Fiji and the body was flown to Western Samoa for burial. Such a flight would cross the International Date Line from West to East and, in effect, the date would go back one day.

 

WHO AM I ANSWER:

American film actor Mary Pickford, nicknamed America’s Sweetheart, received an Academy Award in 1929 for her performance in Coquette. Pickford was also cofounder, with director D.W. Griffith and actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin, of United Artists Corporation.