Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Optimist International is a service club whose slogan is Bringing out the best in kids. The first Optimist club was founded in 1911 in Buffalo, New York and the International was founded in 1919 in a meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. The organization currently has 114,000 members in 3500 Optimist Clubs. See also List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations External links Optimist International This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.