The national Children’s Health Insurance Program was a response to the Pittsburgh unemployed steel workers protesting their lack of health insurance for their children at local churches where steel executives worshiped and what this author observed as she sang in the choir at the Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church. The positive resolution begun at that church became the model for the Pennsylvania CHIP program, which led to the national CHIP program. This inspired Scott Galloway, the son of the church’s senior pastor, now a professional film maker, to make a Documentary, “CHILDREN IN CRISIS: The Story of CHIP,” featuring Wilberta (Naden) Pickett ’50.

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