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Gutter Dance 7
Continues to Raise Money Even in a Down Economic
Year
Gutter Dance 7,
a charity-bowling event benefiting the J. D.
McCarty Center in Norman, attracted 20 teams
to the Sooner Bowling Center Thursday night,
May 6, for bowling, bar-b-que, door prizes and
suspense.
"We netted $9,300
this year," explained Uwe von Schamann,
director of development for the McCarty Center,
"which is down from last year, but still
a very good result given the current economic
environment."
The proceeds from this
event will go to the Camp ClapHans scholarship
endowment fund. Camp ClapHans is a summer camp
project of the McCarty Center. The scholarship
endowment fund will help campers pay for a portion
of their summer camp tuition.
The highlight of the Gutter
Dance is the 7-10 split roll off. At the end
of the evening, the top ten high score bowlers
are given an opportunity to make a 7-10 split.
The bowler making the split would win a 2010
Chevrolet Cobalt Super Sport from Marc Heitz
Chevrolet.
In the seven years of
the Gutter Dance, no one has made the split.
But, this year everyone jumped to their feet
and cheered as one bowler came very close to
picking up bowling's toughest shot. Caryl Hennen,
a speech-language pathologist at the McCarty
Center, slid her ball just past the outside
of the ten pin making it ricochet across the
lane towards the seven pin, narrowly missing
it. The crowd momentarily went silent as the
ten pin missed its target, but quickly began
cheering again for what almost was. Hennen bowled
a game of 200 to qualify for the 7-10 split.
The first place team in
this year's Gutter Dance was Tiffany's Restaurant
in Noble with a total of 1432 pins. Second place
went to the Occupational Therapy team with a
pin count of 1127. Third place was the Gutter
Clutters with 1123 pins. Trophies were presented
to the members of all three teams. Also recognized
for their effort with a bobble head bowling
trophy was the last place team in the event,
the Physical Therapy team with a total of 710
pins.
"This event continues
to grow for us," said von Schamann. A large
number of our teams started with us in Gutter
Dance I and keep coming back because they tell
us what a good time they have. And many of the
bowlers only bowl one time a year."
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. The hospital
was founded in 1946, and only treated one diagnosis…cerebral
palsy. Today, the McCarty Center has treated
more than 70 different diagnoses in the developmental
disability category.
For more information about the J. D. McCarty
Center visit www.jdmc.org.
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| The OrthoCare Services
Village People were one of 20 teams that
participated in the Gutter Dance 7 charity-bowling
event benefiting the J. D. McCarty Center
in Norman on Thursday, May 6. Going beyond
the criteria for the most creative bowling
shirt contest, this winning group even entertained
the other bowlers with their version of
"YMCA." The Village People are
(l-r) Gary Birks, James Jackson, Melissa
Haworth, John Brigance, Bekki Smith and
Dorothy Mwakma (kneeling). |
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