 When the Dale Rogers Training Center (DRTC) opened in 1953, there were almost no services available to children with developmental disabilities.The families of approximately 20 children with mental retardation banded together to provide mutual support, day care and education.Although the organization incorporated as the "Oklahoma County Council for Mentally Retarded Children," it adopted its better-known name in honor of film star Dale Evans Rogers, one of the first advocates for persons with mental retardation.