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Price College of Business Students Deliver Profits
to Camp ClapHans Scholarship Fund
Camp
ClapHans, a summer camp project of the J. D.
McCarty Center in Norman, was the beneficiary
of a University of Oklahoma business school
project that not only taught business students
how to set up a business, select a product and
market it successfully, but put $13,895 into
the Camp ClapHans scholarship endowment fund.
Business majors participating in the University
of Oklahoma's Michael F. Price College of Business
Integrated Business Core (IBC) class during
the fall semester of 2007 were divided into
four companies. Each company selected a not-for-profit
agency to support through the profits generated
by their efforts. The Sleep Sooner Company selected
the J. D. McCarty Center as its not-for-profit
agency.
Acting as representatives of the 22 member Sleep
Sooner Company, Amy Herritt, junior marketing
major from Oklahoma City, and Heath Thompson,
junior energy management major from Ada, recently
presented a check to Uwe von Schamann, McCarty
Center director of development, for the proceeds
of last semester's project.
The Sleep Sooner Company's product selection
was a crimson and cream jersey knit throw. Imprinted
on the throw was a football with the OU logo
and the words "Before there was a state,
there was Oklahoma football." The throw
also had the Oklahoma Centennial logo on it.
For those of you who are wondering, Oklahoma
football began in 1895, twelve years before
statehood.
The Sleep Sooner Company sold 1200 units of
their product at $35 each. These students placed
first in their class in gross sales and second
in gross profit.
The IBC class is the introduction class for
upper division course work for business majors.
Approximately 100 students participated in the
fall semester course. The class is composed
of junior and senior business students.
Camp ClapHans is named in honor of Sammy Jack
Claphan, an OU student-athlete who played offensive
tackle for the Sooners (1974-1978) and played
professional football for the Cleveland Browns
and San Diego Chargers. When Claphan retired
from the NFL, he returned to Oklahoma where
he became a special education teacher in his
hometown of Stilwell. Claphan died unexpectedly
in 2001 at the age of 45.
Camp ClapHans will be built in the southwest
corner of the McCarty Center's 80-acre campus.
It will be located near the western shore of
an 18-acre lake on the property. Initial concepts
for the camp have been completed by gh2 Gralla
Architects in Tulsa. The next phase of development
will be costing out the camp and preparing detailed
plans for the camp structures.
The building of a camp scholarship endowment
fund is an important element of building Camp
ClapHans according to von Schamann. "The
high cost of medical care for a child with developmental
disabilities makes it financially difficult
for many parents to send their children to a
summer camp," explained von Schamann. "Being
able to offer scholarships for some portion
of the camp tuition, based on the families ability
to pay, makes bringing a summer camp experience
to some children closer to being a reality.
The support from this IBC class project is a
large investment toward building up our scholarship
endowment fund," he concluded.
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, the McCarty Center
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 from 70 of
Oklahoma's 77 counties. The addition of Camp
ClapHans will give the McCarty Center a new
and different way to reach out to children with
disabilities in Oklahoma.
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Uwe von Schamann (left),
director of development for the J. D. McCarty
Center, shows plans for the layout of Camp
ClapHans to Heath Thompson and Amy Herritt.
Thompson, a junior energy management major
from Ada, and Herritt, a junior marketing
major from Oklahoma City, had just presented
a check to von Schamann for $13,895 that
will be invested into Camp ClapHans summer
camp scholarship endowment fund. Thompson
and Herritt were members of OU's Price College
of Business Integrated Business Core class
that sets up student companies that market
products and support a non-profit agency
with the profits during the semester long
course.
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