Friends & Family Camp
Scholarship Funds
Every year KindTree offers both full and partial scholarships to people on the spectrum, enabling nearly 30 people to attend who otherwise would not be able to. The Talon Percilick fund is limited to ages 13-21, and The Riley Campbell fund is available to all. Donations honoring Stephanie Millman will go to the Riley Fund. Read more about these beautiful people below and consider making a donation.
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Riley Campbell
Memorial
Camp Scholarship Fund
Riley Campbell, son of former Board Member Dyan Campbell, was a frequent camper, a film expert, and a favorite among the ladies.
Riley lived a beautiful life, filled with people who loved and adored his easy nature, ever present smile and warm healing hugs. Riley rarely met a person that he didn’t impact in some way. Riley loved volunteering in his community, at Greenhill Animal Shelter, Next Step Recycling and Developmental Disability Services.
He was an avid letter writer of “novel” sized letters, and he often wrote short sweet notes to people that he especially loved, telling them they were “cool”, which was his way of saying that he really liked them. He treasured his friendships and was a well-known “man about town”.
He was an avid movie buff, giving you any detail or obscure fact about movies, directors, actors or movie lines. He worked at Flics and Pics video rental store until they closed.
Riley looked forward to camp all year long. One year, he couldn’t decide if he was going to attend, didn’t get his application in before camp was full and missed camp. He filled out the registration form in the very next newsletter that arrived , sent it in on his own, to ensure his spot for the following year’s camp. Riley was proud of his independence, and in spite of life’s challenges, he lived his life just the way he wanted it to be. You are dearly missed Ry Guy.
Talon Percilick
Memorial Camp Scholarship Fund
for Ages 13-21 only
Talon grew up in Eugene and Marcola and attended South Eugene High School. Talon was on Teen Crew at Oregon Country Fair and attended fair every year of his life.
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He was a regular at the second Friday social gathering at Reality Kitchen and attended Autism Rocks Camp in 2015 and was planning on never missing another Camp. He volunteered at Next Step Recycling.
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Talon loved hiking in the woods, swimming at the river, and gathering agates. He loved parties with his friends and family. Talon was a chess player, a computer gamer, a devotee of physics, an amateur engineer who could build anything out of anything. He loved music, especially dub step and trap, rock and roll, reggae and country music. He also loved traveling, and had been to Belize, Mexico and Africa.
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Talon was brilliant, funny, kind, loving and philosophical. He was also a prankster and was known for sharing an interesting piece of information and then asking “what do you think about that?” Talon had saved money for college and to buy a car and his family has decided to use it to start a scholarship fund for Autism Rocks Camp so that his Spirit will always be at Camp.​​
Talon Percilick July 30, 1999 – August 26, 2016
Stephanie Elaine Millman
Donations in Stephanie's name will go to the Riley Campbell Memorial
Camp Scholarship Fund
One of Stephanie’s most treasured moments was meeting Temple Grandin a few years ago at a talk in Portland. It was the 2010 movie about her that made Stephanie realize - what had always made her unique was actually the same as what made Temple Grandin unique. It was soon after that, Stephanie scheduled herself to be tested and received her official diagnosis of Autism. This thrilled Stephanie because she had self-diagnosed what the doctors who tried to categorize Stephanie’s differences for most of her life could not. And as a voracious reader and avid Internet researcher, Stephanie soaked up as much as she could and learned more about her extraordinary abilities that Autism had blessed her with, because she didn’t look at being on the spectrum as a disability.
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Stephanie’s love of theatre and the arts was apparent from an early age. She was an avid volunteer throughout her life for many different arts and civic organizations. And she was even a volunteer firefighter in Pennsylvania.
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Stephanie loved to collect books, enjoyed swimming, her time at the Jersey shore and the tropical beaches of Naples and Marco Island, Florida. She was an avid hiker who meandered through many parks in and around Portland and explored much of Oregon’s coast. She loved the high desert of Sunriver and the Columbia Gorge’s waterfalls and amazing geographical formations. And she collected rocks and stones wherever she went.
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Stephanie was thrilled when she discovered the KIndTree-Autism Rocks camp, first as an attendee, then as a volunteer. If you remember her from camp, you will undoubtedly think of her welcoming nature and beautiful smile.
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