Pilot Club of Denham Springs

Our Foundation

Pilot International was organized in Macon, Georgia in October 1921, as a not-for-profit, classified, service organization for business and professional women by a group of 40 women who felt the time had come for women to demonstrate their abilities in all areas of life, and to prove they could make a difference in community affairs. This group of forward-looking women adopted the name PILOT INTERNATIONAL at the time they were issued a charter. Within the first several months, Pilot Clubs had been organized in Alabama and Georgia. These ladies were on their way to their dream - an international organization.

The name PILOT was taken from the river boat captains that were present at the time and was adopted to designate LEADER AND GUIDE. The emblem was a replica of the pilot wheel on the boats. The motto chosen was TRUE COURSE EVER. Colors of GREEN AND GOLD were adopted - green to show vitality and gold to show sincerity.

The Pilot Club of Denham Springs was organized by the Pilot Club of Baton Rouge in 1965, with twenty-one charter members. The Pilot Club of Denham Springs gained a reputation for organizing, funding, and completing many short-term projects to improve the quality of life for people in our community. Our emphasis is on the needs of Denham Springs, and our efforts are expended in meeting as many of these needs as possible. We have worked in areas of safety and health, education, services to youth and senior citizens and many others.

Our Mission

The mission of the Pilot Club is to transform communities by developing youth, providing service and education and uplifting families. Our mission is to serve by furthering Pilot International's humanitarian efforts through charitable, educational, and research programs in communities throughout the world. We Pilots are fully committed to helping others and our community and your support helps us to continue these types of projects.

Our Focus

Pilot’s service focus involves promoting awareness of brain-related disorders, and helping those affected through volunteer activities, education, and financial support. Pilot works closely with national and international organizations that support this focus, including the National Organization on Disability, American Heart Association, Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, Alzheimer’s Association, Project Lifesaver and The Brain Injury Association.

Pilot members participate in fund raising projects such as Pilot Walks to support programs in the field of brain-related disorders and disabilities. Pilot Clubs participate in Brain Awareness Week, an annual event sponsored by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, to increase awareness of advances in brain research and their importance to society.

Pilot Principles

Friendship and Service

Code of Ethics

Realizing that whatever a Pilot touches should be ennobled by that touch, we, as business leaders, are resolved to make our business standards high, to do our work in every place in which we are employed as if it were our life work, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness or making a friend; to put into our business dealings a note of sympathy for humanity; to follow truth; to do our best from dawn till night; and so to live in the discharge of our duty, so to take care of every responsibility that comes before us that we shall radiate that which is unselfish, beautiful and true; and when we shall have finished with our tasks we shall have given an upward impetus to human ideals and achievements. With this resolution before us then, we believe it is our duty as Pilots:

To consider our work worthy and ourselves worthy of our work, exemplifying in it at all times the Pilot motto, "True Course Ever."
To work each day at that which is before us seriously, vigorously, calmly, cheerily; to improve ourselves in every possible way; to increase our efficiency; to enlarge our visions.
To be ambitious to succeed, but always to be ethical, desiring nothing that is not achieved by justice, honesty and fairness.
To live in the presence of the great eternal laws, which will keep us patient when the task is irksome and calm and unspoiled when we seem to succeed.
To acquire self-control and self-reliance; to be ready to give as well as take: to develop in ourselves an appreciation of the finer things of life; to be honest and generous; to help, not to hinder; to be slow of criticism and quick with praise.
To cherish our visions and our ideals: to cherish the music that stirs our hearts, the beauty that forms in our minds, knowing that on these things we can build our world, for visions and dreams are the seedlings of reality.
To be loyal to Pilot in thought, word and deed.
To see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, think no evil of a Pilot, but to be no more loyal to a Pilot in this respect than we are to every other person, for the genius of Pilot is in its kindness, and justice is the soul and substance of life.

Written by Pearl Sparks

Pilot Club of Florence. AL – 1926

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