June 5, 2008
Operation Purple Camp provides fun, support
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Counselor Frank Baute gives instructions during a judo activity to Operation Purple Camp participants Hanna Richards of Rossville (top) and Keliann Mast of Lafayette on Thursday (June 5) at Purdue's Recreations Sports Center. More than 40 children from Indiana are participating this week in the free national summer camp aimed at offering support in a fun atmosphere to the children of military families. Purdue's Military Family Research Institute and the Department of Health and Kinesiology planned and organized the Purdue camp, which runs through Saturday. (Purdue News Service photo/David Umberger)
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Instructor Tim Phillips, (bottom) a graduate student in aerospace engineering at Purdue and an officer in the U.S. Navy, leads a judo activity with counselor Frank Baute on Thursday (June 5) for a group of Operation Purple Camp participants in the South Gym of the university's Recreations Sports Center. The weeklong camp, created by the National Military Family Association, is designed to give military children the coping skills and support networks necessary to better handle the challenges in their lives. This is the first time the camps have been held at Purdue. (Purdue News Service photo/David Umberger)
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A related story is available at https://www.purdue.edu/uns/x/2008a/080428MacDermidPurple.html
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