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Kappa
Kappa Gamma Continues to Grow Support for the
McCarty Center
The women of Kappa
Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Oklahoma
continue to raise the bar in their support of
the J. D. McCarty Center for children with developmental
disabilities in Norman. In a brief presentation
ceremony during chapter meeting on Monday night,
October 22, the Kappa's philanthropy chairperson,
Helen Tracy, presented a check to the McCarty
Center in the amount of $21,561. Accepting the
check for the McCarty Center was Uwe von Schamann,
director of development.
"We can't thank
these young women enough for what they do for
the McCarty Center," said von Schamann.
The
check for $21,561 represented the proceeds from
the 9th annual Kappa Klassic golf tournament
held on Saturday, September 29, at the Westwood
Golf Course in Norman.
This year's scramble tournament had 200 golfers
playing in both a morning round and an afternoon
round. The number of golfers was up from last
years 172. Golfers participating in this year's
event came from the University of Oklahoma,
Norman, Tulsa, Dallas, Wichita Falls and Oklahoma
City.
This year's Kappa Klassic raised almost $6,100
more than last year's event.
According to von Schamann, the money from this
year's Kappa Klassic will go into scholarship
endowment fund for Camp ClapHans. Camp ClapHans
is the summer camp that the McCarty Center is
building on its 80-acre campus on the east side
of Norman. "Many families that would like
to send their children to a summer camp can't
afford to so," explained von Schamann.
"This endowment fund will allow Camp ClapHans
to help some families by providing a full or
partial camp scholarship to attend a week of
summer camp."
Besides supporting the McCarty Center financially,
the Kappa's also invest their time in the hospital.
This year marks the third year for their Fairy
Tale Friends program where members of the sorority
volunteer to read bedtime stories to the patients.
This Halloween the Kappa's will also be hosting
a party for the patients.
The
J. D. McCarty Center is Oklahoma's center of
excellence in the care and treatment of children
with developmental disabilities from birth to
age 21. Founded in 1946, by a veterans group
called the 40 et 8 of Oklahoma, the hospital
only treated one diagnosis…cerebral palsy.
Today, the McCarty Center has treated more than
70 different diagnoses in the developmental
disability category. In an average year, the
McCarty Center will treat children for 70 of
Oklahoma's 77 counties.
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