Dr. Floyd Rogers, then taking a residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University, had a young child in ketoacidosis and was waiting for their very first shipment to the hospital of the new miracle drug out of Canada, insulin. Without insulin there was no hope for this child. The insulin was late in arriving, the child had passed away, but another child had been admitted to the hospital in a similar condition and was given the precious drug. The child lived and thrived. Dr. Rogers was so impressed with this experience that later, when he was in private practice in Lincoln, Nebraska, he developed a special summer program for diabetic girls on his farm. This program then developed and evolved into Camp Floyd Rogers, run by the Floyd Rogers Foundation and utilizing camp sites in Iowa and Nebraska. The camp now operates each June providing summer camp experiences for 100 boys and girls who are diabetic, ages 8 to 18.
