Optimist Club

   Optimist is a service club meant to appeal to the underclassmen at Gabrileino, hosting services to be accessible and friendly to new faces on the campus.

   It deals mainly with donating to elementary and middle school sites and tries to stay at school for its events. “Compared to other clubs likes Key Club or Interact,” President Ashely Lau, 12, begins, “we try to do more in-person ones, because we know a lot of people aren’t able to get a ride to some services.” This consists of painting tote bags and rocks which are then to be donated.

   During this past February, kindness month, Optimist used painted rocks made by members to beautify and decorate Washington Elementary, an event they had consulted extensively beforehand.

   Lau furthers, “Optomist was the first club I joined when I was a freshman… and it made he feel like I belong somewhere at Gab.”

   Optimist meets on the last Friday of the month in B200.