Platteville Optimist Club

An appearance of the infamous sippy cup was made at a recent meeting. Gary Engelke is the most recent winner of the Sippy Cup Award...

Pictured on left: UW-Platteville Men's Head Basketbell Coach Jeff Gard. On the right: Optimist President Bob Hundhausen, Vince Gard,...

Pictured on left: Optimist Member Beth Frieders, Kris Wright and Optimist Vice President Terri Ellis. Kris Wright, Biologist at...

Pictured left and center: Bill Mitchell. On the Right: Bill Mitchell and Optimist President Bob Hundhausen. Bill Mitchell from the...

Pictured: Jim Boebel, left; Kim Zielinski, center; Jim Boebel, Bob Hundhausen, Kim Zielinski and Terri Ellis, right On Friday,...

Terri Ellis spoke about her 2024 Ladies Rafting Trip in August where they kayaked ~80 miles on the Salmon River in Idaho.  It was an Ed...

Pictured L-R: Doctor White, Optimist President Alaina Reeves, and Ron Weier Optimist Doctor Jeff White spoke to our Club about vaccines...

Pictured on the left: Troy Pittz. On Right: Troy Pittz, Optimist President Alaina Reeves and Ron Weier Our guest speaker today was...

Pictured on the Left: UW-Platteville Head Football Coach Ryan Munz. On the Right: Optimist Member Doug Martin, Coach Munz, and Optimist...

Optimist Member Mark Essex (pictured in center) is also a volunteer at the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium (NMRMA). Mark...

Pictured above: Jaqueline "Jaquie" Vorholick Optimist Member Mark Essex and Jaquie Vorholick Jaquie Vorholick, Head of...

Since retiring from his position as publisher of TH Media and the Telegraph Herald in January 2024, Bob Woodward became Director of...

Sue Leamy Kies graduated from Platteville High School and then returned to teach high school English twenty years later. In her memoir,...

Dan Rohrbach, CEO of Southwest Health Center updated us on the tremendous growth that has occurred at Southwest in the last several years....

Beth Frieders explaining horses' teeth Optimist President Alaina Reeves and Optimist Beth Frieders Our very own fellow Optimist Beth...

Doctor Kyle Quillin Optimist Vice President Bob Hundhausen and Doctor Kyle Quillin Doctor Quillin is a full-time...

Barb Stockhausen, President of the Rotary Club and fellow Optimist, introduced Angie Wright. Angie was a student participant in the...

Pictured above: Paul Budden, Dawn Drake, and Chris Budden Dawn Drake retired from UW-Platteville after 33 years with the UW-System. She...

Pictured L-R: Optimist member Chris Budden, Senior Center Program Coordinator Jill Goffinet, Optimist Club President, Alaina Reeves, and...

Pictured L-R above: Optimist Maxine Lane, Chief McKinley and Lt. Andrea Droessler. Platteville Police Chief Doug McKinley talked about...