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SWAT on Target
with Donation to Camp ClapHans
Social Workers
Association of Tomorrow (SWAT), a student organization
from Northwestern Oklahoma State University/Woodward
campus, recently held a spaghetti dinner and
silent auction to benefit the J. D. McCarty
Center in Norman. The McCarty Center is Oklahoma's
Center of excellence in the care and treatment
of children with developmental disabilities
from birth to age 21.
Betty Cosgrave, a senior
social work major and president of SWAT, recently
presented Uwe von Schamann, director of development
for the McCarty Center, with $4,700 from the
event held in Woodward on February 21. The proceeds
from this event will go into the Camp ClapHans
scholarship endowment fund.
Camp ClapHans is a summer
camp project of the McCarty Center. The camp
will be built on the southwest corner of the
McCarty Center's 80-acre campus on the east
side of Norman. Ground breaking for the summer
camp project is scheduled to take place this
year.
Cosgrave is very familiar
with the programs and services at the McCarty
Center. She has an eight-year-old daughter named
Karissa who has been a patient at the McCarty
Center. "I just wanted to do this fundraiser
because the McCarty Center has given so much
to my daughter and I," explained Cosgrave.
"I just wanted to give something back."
"I am really proud
of Betty, her friends Meredith Everett and Kari
Alva and the SWAT organization," said von
Schamann. "They really worked hard to go
out and get sponsors, publicity and silent auction
items for this event. There efforts really paid
off in a nice donation to the Camp ClapHans
scholarship endowment fund."
The J. D. McCarty
Center is a pediatric rehab hospital founded
in 1946 in Norman. When the hospital first opened
in 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.
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