Transplant Picnic 2001

Kidney recipients


Living donors and their recipients		Liver recipients


Heart recipients					Pancreas and pancreas-kidney recipients


Lung and heart- lung recipients		Donor families


Youngest when transplanted	Oldest when transplanted				Just happy to be transplanted!

Heart recipient Seth Catterson, in this photo almost 11 years old, was four months old when transplanted.	Two-time kidney recipient Joan Ragnone, 77 at the time of this photo, was 75 when first transplanted.



Giving time					Giving love and creativity

Girl Scouts Cadets Troop 6300 has been a vital part of the OHSU Transplant Picnic for seven years, providing children's activities and cheerful, capable all-around help. We couldn't do it without them!					Liver recipient and stained glass artist Randy Smith (left) donated this original piece to the picnic, which organizers and Smith presented to posthumous donor families. Bev Jones (right), of the Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank's Family Resource Program, accepts on their behalf.

Commemorating life				Encouraging donation

				Darcey Bone of the Oregon Donor Program will give you the shirt off her back when it comes to educating people about donation!		Oregon Donor Program staffer Karen Embler assembled and stitched together the third and newest panel of the Oregon Donor Program's Gift of Life quilt. Each piece commemorates the life of an organ donor or transplant recipient.


OHSU Transplant Administrator Mike Millhollen (left) and OHSU CommunityRelations Director and picnic master of ceremonies Mark Kemball (right) show that the fun isn't limited to our guests.			"Noodles," granddaughter of OHSU's first heart transplant recipient, Wes Merrill, takes the adage, "Let your smile be your umbrella," literally.			Kidney recipient and ODP volunteer Billie Bergman contributed this panel to the Gift of Life quilt.

Updated 08/18/08 by Jean Shepherd, OHSU Transplant Administration. Please send questions, comments or inquiries to transplt@ohsu.edu.