The hands-on Museum is designed to appeal primarily to children two to twelve years, but is of interest to persons of all ages. A member of the Board of Directors of Meriter Hospital Foundation, Zilavy is also president of the Madison Municipal Women's Golf Association and a board member of the Friendship Force of Wisconsin. This international travel club is designed to promote peace and friendship worldwide by arranging home stays. She organized and led a tour of 22 people for a two-week stay in Hungary in 1991. I feel that the rewards I have received over the years have far outweighed my contributions.
Some alumni use their nursing skills to good advantage in their volunteering.
Co-sponsored by the American Lung Associations of Minnesota and of Hennepin County, the program is held at a YMCA camp on Lake Independence, just west of Minneapolis. In 1992 about 200 young people participated. As a camp nurse, Radle's manages the campers' health care, including giving medications, doing bedside assessments, teaching inhaler techniques, asthma triggers and relaxation breathing, and staffing the health service. We have learned a lot about preventive treatment, she wrote. We often premedicate our campers before running games to avoid onset of an asthma episode.