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Blood Drive at MIT...9/14 - 9/18; Red Sox tix raffle & t-shirt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blood Drive Coordinators)
Tue Sep 8 16:12:07 2009
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:11:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Blood Drive Coordinators <blood-drive-coordinators@MIT.EDU>
To: Blood Drive Announcements <blood-drive-request@MIT.EDU>
Executive Summary: There will be a blood drive at MIT from Monday,
September 14 through Friday, September 18, in La Sala in the Student
Center. The drive will run from 1pm to 6pm every day except Tuesday
and from 8am to 1pm then. All donors will be able to enter a raffle
for Red Sox tickets, and will also receive a Red Sox Blood Donor
t-shirt. Please use http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/ to make an
appointment for faster service. We're also regularly short of
volunteers. Please drop a note to blood-drive-coordinators with your
availability if you have some time to volunteer.
Hello,
Please allow me to begin by thanking everyone who made our July drive
a success. We collected 200 units of blood. On behalf of the Red
Cross, thank you for saving lives. However, that is a very small
drive for us, let's try to do better in September.
The Red Cross will be holding a blood drive at MIT from Monday,
September 14 through Friday, September 18, in La Sala in the Student
Center. The drive will run from 1pm to 6pm every day except Tuesday,
when it will run from 8am to 1pm. All donors will be able to enter a
raffle for Red Sox tickets, and will also receive a free Red Sox Blood
Donor t-shirt. By giving blood, or volunteering your time at the
blood drive, you can help save lives.
With the class of '09 safely graduated and on their way in the world,
it's important that we get some new blood (so to speak) to replace
them. Please consider bringing a friend with you to donate,
especially if they are someone new to the MIT community.
The Red Cross relies on appointments to decide how many staff to
provide on a given day. Making appointments will decrease your wait,
and make the drive run faster as a whole (even if you can only tell us
what day you want to donate, and not what time during the day.) To
make an appointment, fill out the form at:
http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/
If you cannot make an appointment please feel free to come to the
drive and donate anyway.
We can always use more volunteers to help out during the drive to get
people registered quickly and take some of the pressure off the Red
Cross workers. Even if you can't donate blood, you're encouraged to
donate some of your time to the drive. Some of the services that
volunteers may perform are registering donors, staffing the canteen,
and providing moral support to the donors. No previous experience is
necessary to volunteer. All these efforts are important to the
drive's success. To volunteer, send e-mail to
blood-drive-coordinators@mit.edu, and someone will reply to you
shortly before the drive starts.
Blood Donation Factoids:
* Be sure to eat! Don't skip breakfast or lunch on the day of your
blood donation. Your body will need extra energy to donate a pint of
blood. You will also feel better after donating if you have eaten a
meal a few hours before.
* An adult body contains 10-12 pints of blood.
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sending it to a friend, or to a list for which it is appropriate. In
other words, feel free to forward, but please don't spam people on our
behalf. If anyone wants to get on our mailing list they can check the
appropriate box when making an appointment, or fill out the form at
http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/email.html
+ The MIT Blood Drive Coordinators
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please send an email request to blood-drive-request@mit.edu only.
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