Volunteers: Spotlights
Los Médicos Voladores would not exist but for Milt Camp, who discovered that his employer, Hewlett Packard, would support his time organizing volunteer healthcare missions to remote Mexican villages in the early 1970s. As LMV's founder and lifetime board member, Milt also founded our Central America chapter and has run dozens of trips to everywhere we work, usually accompanied by wife Rosie, a healthcare education specialist and LMV powerhouse volunteer in her own right. Milt is a trained dental, medical, and optometric assistant, and is proficient at measuring patients' eyes for eyeglasses needs using a laser refractor machine. Outside LMV, Milt is a Picture Archival Computer Systems (PACS) administer for Sonora Regional Medical Center and an active private pilot. He is also an active Rotarian.
VeNae Crabtree has been offering her skills as a registered nurse on LMV Mexico trips since joining Gold Country Chapter in 1993. Outside LMV, VeNae focuses on what she loves: yes, nursing. She's been in the field for 43 years, and currently works full time in the operating room. She also has been studying Spanish for 14 years and in addition to her many LMV trips, has visited Mexico on her own, all with the support of her two grown daughters and husband of 37 years. One of her great desires is to spend time in Mexico as part of a homestay program.
On LMV trips, VeNae loves seeing people living happily with a lot fewer material things than we have in the US, and feels great knowing that she can help provide care the villagers don't have access to otherwise. And instead of a single memorable moment, she treasures the way LMV volunteers come together as a team. "When we return home we feel a little closer to the people we have spent time with, and we carry the trip in our hearts forever."
Thanks in part to where he parked his airplane in the early 1990s, Bob Horvath became one of LMV's most active pilots and general volunteers. Since meeting Tom Palmer (LMV's current corporate board chairman) at the Auburn airport in 1993, Bob has contributed his business and piloting expertise to 31 LMV Mexico missions. He finds the most memorable thing about volunteering to be the look patients get in their eyes when the doctor sends them on their way.
Bob's wife Mo is at the base of his spirit. She owns their business, Clayborn Lab, and he is its chief engineer. They make heat tape for satellites and other varied industrial applications. They have two great kids: Justin is an architectural Lighting Engineer and Chelsea is enrolled in graduate school with the goal of becoming a licensed clinical social worker. Bob and Mo live in a hand-crafted log home their family built in Truckee and love the heck out of their mountain life.