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Maggie Moo's Provides
a Sweet Treat for Camp ClapHans
Maggie Moo's Ice
Cream recently presented a check for $250 to
the J. D. McCarty Center. The donation was the
result of Maggie Moo's pledge to donate ten
percent of sales from their official grand opening
held Saturday, March 8. Maggie Moo's is located
at 1200 12th Avenue SE.
"When my family and
I opened this business, we did it with intention
of using it as a way to give back to the community,"
said Maggie Moo's owner Judy Rollins. "We
wanted to hire college and high school students
who really needed to have a job and we wanted
to help support places like the McCarty Center."
The idea to support the
McCarty Center came from Maggie Moo's promotions
manager Jacob Rice. Rice, a former deep snapper
for the University of Oklahoma Sooners and the
NFL Europe Hamburg (Germany) Sea Devils, had
worked with special needs kids for two years
while attending Norman High School. "I
worked with some autistic kids in high school.
I found them to be very interesting and fun
to work with," said Rice.
When Rice first entered
OU he was going to major in special education,
but later had to change his major. "Class
scheduling and student teaching schedules were
not going to work with my athletic schedule,
so I changed my major," Rice said, "but
I always thought it was calling."
According to Uwe von Schamann,
director of development for the McCarty Center,
the Maggie Moo's donation will go into the Camp
ClapHans scholarship endowment fund.
Camp ClapHans is a summer
camp project of the J. D. McCarty Center. The
camp, which is scheduled to break ground this
year, will be built in the southwest corner
of the McCarty Center's 80-acre campus on the
shore of an 18-acre lake. The scholarship endowment
fund will be used to help families who might
not otherwise be able to afford to send their
children to a summer camp. Camp ClapHans will
be the first summer camp in Oklahoma to be specifically
designed and built for special needs children.
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. A licensed
pediatric rehab hospital founded in 1946, the
McCarty Center provides inpatient and outpatient
services in physical, occupational, speech and
language therapy. To date, the McCarty Center
has treated more than 70 different diagnoses
in the developmental disability category. In
an average year, the McCarty Center will see
children from 70 of Oklahoma's 77 counties.
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Jacob Rice (left), promotions
manager for Maggie Moo's Ice Cream in Norman,
hands Uwe von Schamann, J. D. McCarty Center
director of development, a sample spoon
of ice cream shortly after handing him a
check for $250. The money, which will go
into the Camp ClapHans summer camp scholarship
endowment fund, represents a percent of
sales from Maggie Moo's grand opening held
Saturday, March 8. Camp ClapHans is a project
of the J. D. McCarty Center for children
with developmental disabilities in Norman.
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