of the Palo Alto Medical Center. With the help of Eddie Dunio, then President of Northern
California P.G.A. and George Santa, President of the Golf Course Superintendents
Association of Northern California, a Pitch and Putt Golf Course was constructed on the Menlo
Park Division Grounds. Dutch Rudquist, Chief of the Veterans Administration’s Voluntary
Service, and General Waldron, Director of the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Menlo
Park, welcomed this Golf Program and were members of the initial Swing Club Committee.
UVS Swing Clubs were also organized at Air Force Bases and Isolated Air Raid Warning Sites.
The UVS Swing clubs provide excellent therapy and give the hospitalized veterans a new
incentive to override their problems. Over the years Helen visited all but one of the Veterans
Hospitals in the United States, helping to establish UVS Swing Clubs and the many other
worthwhile UVS volunteer programs for the veterans.
The slogan of the UVS is “ Never say no to worthwhile hospital and community requests” in
carrying out their motto “ Building Bridges of Service”