Platteville Optimist Club

Center: Victoria Hundhausen shows her "Alien" green card. Far Right: Victoria Hundhausen with Optimist President Terri Ellis Optimist member, Victoria Hundhausen, is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city in Argentina with a population of 17 million people. Victoria grew up in the city, where approximately 3 million reside, being a resident for 30 years. She shared her personal immigration story, prefacing it by saying she is n

Speaker Michael Bottrell Michael Bottrell, a retired dentist, maintains a Master Personal Trainer certification.  Throughout the years, he has had on going knife, handgun and jiu-jitsu training. He has earned a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ). Michael spoke to the Optimist Club about the world of violence, specifically about sexual assaults. One in four women report that they have experienced sexual violence. Most cases go unreported. While we like to think that these

L-R: Optimist Member Beth Frieders; Tera Montgomery, Pioneer Sweets; and Optimist President Terri Ellis Tera Montgomery is originally from the Fond du Lac area and earned her undergrad from UW-River Falls in Equine Science. She went to Maryland to earn her graduate degree and earned her PhD from the University of Illinois. In 2009, she came to the UW-Platteville School of Agriculture where she was initially assigned to teach a dairy products class. At the time, she had li

Far Right L-R: Optimist Member Beth Frieders, Juli McGuire from Blue Roof Orchard, and Optimist President Terri Ellis The Optimist Club was delighted to have Juli McGuire speak this morning about her passion for sustainable farming and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA's). Juli is a native Hungarian. After she graduated from college in Hungary, she had the opportunity to come to New York state for a year. It was there that she met her husband, Chris, who worked in a col