Eva's back

Today is the annual visit of Eva Gottscho and members of the Board of Directors of the Gottscho Kidney Foundation. As nearly everyone reading this will already know, it was Eva who in the early 70s went from camp to camp looking for a camp that would take a chance on her idea: sending children with kidney disease to a "regular camp" where the kids would integrate into the existing program and would feel more than ever like any other kid. Finally in '74 should found Halbe Brown and Frost Valley's board - crashed a FV trustee meeting in Summit NJ and persuaded them more or less on the spot to give this crazy idea a try. We opened in '75 and (as again you know from recent postings) just this summer moved to a new beautiful spacious facility in a wing of the new Wellness Center. Every year since '75 Eva has visited at least once. She is 95 now but gets around well and is as sharp as ever. She visited the new unit twice - chatted movingly with the dialysis campers - and within the hour of this writing drove out of camp on the way back home to NJ. Below are some of the photos I took of Eva during her second visit to the dialysis center.