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Gutter Dancers Give Boost to Camp ClapHans Scholarship
Endowment Fund
The Gutter Dance
V, a two game charity-bowling event benefiting
the J. D. McCarty Center for children with developmental
disabilities in Norman, raised $9,500 during
this recent event at the Sooner Bowling Center.
The proceeds from this event will go into the
Camp ClapHans summer camp scholarship endowment
fund. Camp ClapHans is a project of the McCarty
Center.
"The scholarship endowment
fund is being built to help kids come to camp
for a week who might not otherwise be able to
afford it," explained Uwe von Schamann,
the McCarty Center's director of development.
Eighty-four bowlers making
up 21 teams showed up to demonstrate their keggling
skills for this event's fifth year. "This
event continues to grow in popularity,"
von Schamann said. "The great thing about
it is that you don't even have to be a bowler
to have a good time."
The Gutter Dance offered
something for every bowling level. For the non-bowlers
or the occasional bowler there was the opportunity
to buy a ringer. Mandy Haws, manager of Sooner
Bowl, arranged to have two very good bowlers
with high averages standing by to bowl frames
for bowlers who were willing to buy a ringer
for a small fee. Bowlers could use a ringer
twice during the evening's event to help increase
their pin count.
On the other end of the
bowling spectrum, the top ten high bowlers got
a chance participate in the 7-10 split roll
off. The bowler making this spit would win a
2008 Chevrolet Cobalt from Marc Heitz Chevrolet
in Norman.
The top ten bowlers rolling
for the Chevy Cobalt were: Michael Wellner (390),
Kent Vig (384), Tim Howard (380), Steve Szabina
(380), Gary Young (340), Mike Carothers (340),
Carly Hennen (338), Bart Wharton (332), Dean
Bischoff (314) and Joe Sher (314).
No one won the car this
year.
"One of the unique
features of the Gutter Dance is that we not
only recognize the top three winning teams,
but we also recognize the last place team for
their efforts," said von Schamann.
This year's first place
team, the Older and Slower, was composed of
Bart Wharton, Tim Howard, Kent Vig and Payton
Reddeck with a team average of 351 pins.
Major Bowlers was the second
place team composed of Jon Harrison, Mike Carothers,
Roland Kernell and Michael Wellner.
Third place went to Strike
Force One. The team included Scott Winter, Billy
Eades, Kenneth Stuart and Dewey Hill.
Last place in this year's
Gutter Dance went to the Quintana Jumpsuits
made up of Butch Enterline, Jorge Mendros, Dorinda
Chapman and Dana Darrow.
Prizes were also awarded
to the bowling team with the most creative bowling
attire. This year's winners were members of
the Heroes in Training bowling team, one of
several teams from the McCarty Center. Team
members were Tina Martinez, John Johnson, Saundra
Myers-Johnson and Ray Bradley.
"An event like this
isn't successful without the help of sponsors
who are interested in the cause," von Schamann
said. "Our sponsors are no exception. Our
presenting sponsor was Oscar J. Bolt Construction.
Event sponsors included Marc Heitz Chevrolet,
the RibCrib BBQ and Grill, First American Bank,
Randall Venk, DDS, and Blake Virgin attorney
at law."
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
disabilities category.
Camp ClapHans, a summer
camp project of the McCarty Center, will be
built in the southwest corner of the McCarty
Center's 80-acre campus. The camp will include
cabins for campers, volunteers and staff, a
mess hall, a ropes course, a swimming pool,
an arts and crafts barn and a campfire area.
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