Pin Oak Charity Horse Show presents check to Texas Children’s Hospital community
Lynn Walsh (left), president of Pin Oak Charity Horse Show, presents Dr. Charles Hankins, chief medical officer at Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, with a check for $125,000 for the Child Life Playroom. With Walsh and Hankins are Katrese White, Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, Roxanne Cook, executive director of Pin Oak; Mary Jones, charity liaison of Pin Oak; and Rachael Walker, – certified child life specialists at Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus.
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Pin Oak Charity Horse Show
The Pin Oak Charity Horse Show is known as one of the oldest and most prestigious horse shows in the country and one of Houston’s most unique social and fundraising events raising millions for charities such as Texas Children’s Hospital, Ronald McDonald House Family Rooms and Candlelighters. Pin Oak will host its 68th show on March 20-30, 2013, at the Great Southwest Equestrian Center, located at 2501 South Mason Road in Katy. To find out more about Pin Oak, visit www.pinoak.org or find them on Facebook.
Posted: Thursday, August 9, 2012 4:00 am
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Updated: 3:21 am, Wed Aug 8, 2012.
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The Pin Oak Charity Horse Show continued its 67-year history of helping children and charities with a six-figure check presentation Aug. 2 at Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus.
Pin Oak presented a check to Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus to continue its commitment of $400,000 to underwrite the second floor Child Life Playroom. The Charity Horse Show also made check presentations to Houston’s Ronald McDonald House Family rooms and to Candlelighters in support of their work with pediatric cancer patients and their families who are cared for by Texas Children’s Hospital Cancer Center.
“We just try to do things with all of our charities to let them know how much we care about them and then in turn they come back and they volunteer at the show so we get to see them all the time,” Roxanne Cook, executive director at Pin Oak, said.
Dr. Charles Hankins, chief medical officer at Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, accepted the check on behalf of the hospital. Hankins said it would be impossible for Texas Children’s to pursue its mission without the support of Pin Oak.
The Pin Oak Charity Horse Show got its start in 1945 as a fundraiser for the first hospital in Houston dedicated solely to children. The proceeds from its first horse show is the reason the first Texas Children’s Hospital was able to built in the Medical Center. Since then, Pin Oak has continued its support by most recently pledging a donation commitment to the Child Life Playrooms at Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus. These playrooms are a refuge away from medical tests and procedures where patients and their sibling can do arts and crafts and play games with Child Life specialists.
“Now if we were a business, this would be the CEO suite because there is not a better room in this hospital than this room. Just look,” Hankins said to the crowd. “Instead we’re able to use it because of you guys for a room that we’ll never make a penny on. Nobody pays us a penny more because this room exists. So we can take the CEO equivalent suite and make it a Child Life Playroom.”
Hankins said the hospital wouldn’t be able to operate and the campus couldn’t exist without the support of Pin Oak. Pin Oak makes the difference for a patient’s experience at Texas Children’s.
“We could never really repay you with gratitude, but it’s there,” he said. “We also want to make sure that you know we’re open. Anytime we could help Pin Oak do what they need to do or anything they sponsor, we’re more than glad to make our doors open.”
The Pin Oak Charity Horse Show hit a rough spot this past year when it lost $80,000 in sponsors. However, President Lynn Walsh said many of their sponsors, such as Superior Energy Services Inc., came in and kicked it in high gear so the organization could continue its support of helping Texas children.
“Many of our sponsors have been with us for years,” Walsh said. ‘We’re very honored that they have chosen to continue their support. We gain new sponsor every year, we bring them in, and we hope they feel that they’re part of our family.”
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