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Blood Drive at MIT..2/27 - 3/2; Brigham's Ice Cream; Blood Wars
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blood Drive Coordinators)
Tue Feb 21 13:55:10 2006
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:54:25 -0500 (EST)
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,
February 27 through Thursday, March 2, in La Sala in the Student
Center. The drive will run from noon to 6pm on Monday, Wednesday, and
Thursday; and from 10am to 4pm on Tuesday. Please use
http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/ to make an appointment for faster
service. All donors will receive a complimentary gift certificate for
free ice cream at Brigham's. There will also be a contest for the
living group that brings in the most donors.
Hello,
Please allow me to begin by thanking everyone who made our November
drive a success. We collected 249 usable pints of blood. On behalf
of the Red Cross, thank you for saving lives.
The Red Cross will be holding a blood drive at MIT from Monday,
February 27 through Thursday, March 2, in La Sala in the Student
Center (W20). The drive will run from noon to 6pm on Monday,
Wednesday, and Thursday; and from 10am to 4pm on Tuesday. By giving
blood, or volunteering your time at the blood drive, you can help save
lives.
For the February/March drive we will be having 'Blood Wars', a
competition between living groups. Whichever living group in each
category donates the most blood per capita will win a bundle of
prizes. The three categories are Frats/ILGs, Sororities, and Dorms.
Prizes include cash, Xbox games and concert tickets.
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 welcome 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:
* Drink extra fluids before your donation. You can begin to drink extra
fluids the day before your donation. Water and juices are great, but
try to avoid a lot of caffeine.
* One unit of blood can be separated into components (red cells,
platelets and plasma) and used to treat up to three patients.
If you want to forward this message, feel free as long as you are
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
If you wish to be added or removed from any of the blood drive lists,
please send an email request to blood-drive-request@mit.edu only.
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