15 Years Ago

15 Years Ago

15 years ago I interviewed with a young woman named Dale Perkel. She was a social worker at St. Christopher's Hospital, and I was a sophomore student at La Salle University. Dale also was the volunteer director of Camp Can Do, a summer camp for children with cancer. My interview for a position of volunteer counselor led to an offer to spend the first week of August in Gretna, PA in the summer of 1992. Mike Gilbert (another La Salle sophomore student) and I went, had a great time, and so a tradition, for me, was born. In the next fifteen years, I went to camp ten years or so, watching campers from my first year later join me as volunteer counselors and even as a director. A great camp, one I encourage you to find more about. For those that joined me during those years, I thank you. Thank you for being part of something whose memory still gives me energy today. And for those reading this for the first time, feel free to check out the ACS website for the camp at :

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/COM/content/div_PA/COM_11_2_Camp_Can_Do_Fact_Sheet_11082.asp?sitearea=COM