Dimple Overstreet, who’s a member of Altrusa International of Starke, is the new governor for District Three.
The road to becoming an Altrusa district governor doesn’t happen overnight. For Overstreet, that road got its start in 2014 with her installation as the Starke club’s president. One of the requirements for a district governor is to have served as president at the club level.
A few years later, Beverly Hardy, the Starke club’s only member to serve as District Three governor (she would go on to serve as international president), approached Overstreet about nominating her as a District Three director. Overstreet agreed, thinking she wouldn’t be elected, but she was wrong.
She stepped into a whole new world with this election and began her trip to become the District Three governor. This trip would involve serving one year as a director on the District Three board, three years as vice governor and two years as governor elect. Counting the two years as the Starke club president, that’s a total of eight years leading up to becoming governor.
Overstreet described this journey as an opportunity to learn more about Altrusa, a chance to meet and get to know the members in all of the clubs, and to see the many hours that District Three members put into their communities.
Altrusa International District Three is made up 23 clubs in four states: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Florida has the largest number of clubs with 12, followed by Georgia with three, North Carolina with six and South Carolina with two.
During her two-year term as district governor, Overstreet will visit all 23 clubs. She hit the ground running when she held her first board meeting on the Sunday following her installation. Her next outing will be to attend the Altrusa International Convention in San Antonio, Texas. When she returns, from the convention, she will host a “Get Acquainted” meeting in July with her new board at the new Holiday Inn Express in Starke.
The 2023 Altrusa District Three Conference took place April 27-29 in Jacksonville. On the final day, Overstreet was installed as governor by two members from the Starke club: Hardy, and Martha Epps, who is now the past chair of the Altrusa District Three Foundation.
Also serving on the District Three board for this new term is Amanda Seyfang. Seyfang, who just finished serving a year as the Starke club’s president, will serve as the District Three secretary for the next two years.
The Starke club had 20 members in all attend the conference ceremony.
Overstreet said she “is ready to serve as the district governor for the next two years, and she hopes to shine her light and be a star in Altrusa members’ day.”
