Manchester Road Race Blood BankCollection

 

In1989 I was invited to run a Red Cross Blood Bank Collection inconjunction with the annual Thanksgiving Road Race in Manchester, thethird oldest road race in America. I gladly accepted, not onlybecause I had been a surgeon for over forty years, but also because Irealized the importance of having blood available for medicalemergencies. My task was made easier by the fact that I could giveeach donor of a unit of blood a Thanksgiving Road Race t-shirt. Theprogram began modestly but soon became the largest single collectionin the entire state. Today the Blood Collection program is anintegral part of Manchester's celebrated Road Race on ThanksgivingDay. On the tenth anniversary of the program I was made HonoraryChairman of the Road Race. The full story of the Manchester Road Raceis available at: http://www.manchesterroadrace.com.Below are the cover and first page of the race brochure from 1999,the year I was honorary chairman.

 


 


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