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Camp ClapHans
Gets A Boost From Cleveland County Clerk's Office
The Camp ClapHans
summer camp scholarship endowment fund got a
$2,200 boost from the Cleveland County Clerk's
Office last week as it hosted its first annual
Gutter Madness Charity Bowling Event at the
Sooner Bowling Center in Norman.
Camp ClapHans is a summer
camp project of the J. D. McCarty Center for
children with developmental disabilities. Ground
breaking for the construction of Camp ClapHans
will take place this October.
"Our office will be
conducting the Gutter Madness Bowling Event
each year to support a charity," said Tammy
Howard, Cleveland County Clerk. "We decided
we wanted to develop a long term relationship
with a single charity. My deputy county clerk,
Brook Workmon, suggested that we consider the
J. D. McCarty Center as that partner.
Brook has had first hand
experience with the McCarty Center. Her son,
who has cerebral palsy, has been both an inpatient
and outpatient there for the last six years.
She couldn't say enough nice things about them
so we decided that was the worthy cause we were
looking for to help out and support."
"We are pleased and
excited to welcome the county clerk's office
as one of our volunteer groups supporting the
McCarty Center and its projects," said
Uwe von Schamann, director of development for
the McCarty Center. "It is groups like
this, that take us on as their charity, that
help us get to our goals faster. We really appreciate
their efforts."
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. When the
McCarty Center was founded in 1946, it treated
only one diagnosis…cerebral palsy. Today,
the hospital has treated more than 70 different
diagnoses in the developmental disability category.
Camp ClapHans will be Oklahoma's
first camp that is specifically designed and
built for children with special needs. The camp
will be built in the southwest corner of the
McCarty Center's 80-arce campus and is targeted
to be open for campers in the summer of 2010.
The scholarship endowment fund is being established
to help parents send their kids to Camp ClapHans.
For more information about the J. D. McCarty
Center visit www.jdmc.org.
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| Uwe von Schamann, director
of development for the J. D. McCarty Center,
shows Cleveland County Clerk Tammy Howard
(left) and Deputy Clerk Brook Workmon (center)
the general site plans for Camp ClapHans.
Camp ClapHans is a summer camp project of
the McCarty Center. Howard's office recently
hosted a charity-bowling event to raise
money for the Camp ClapHans summer camp
scholarship endowment fund. |
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