Blood Drive September 2012 By Erika Hadjoglou Palmer I want to start by thanking all of the donors who came on Tuesday, September 25th to give a pint of blood - ‘The Gift of Life’. A special thank you to the five Automated Red Blood Cell Donors, (Process called Apheresis Automatic Process, which allows donors to give two pints of red blood cells) namely: George Billims, Jonathan Gran, John Mikos, Spiros Papacostas and George Zakos. I also want to thank the many people with children who came to donate and were able to utilize our ‘child -friendly corner’. The children had a great time coloring and making fall projects and who seemed to enjoy every minute of it! A special thank you to Terry Macris and Irene Charalambous for their assistance with the children. Hopefully the success of this child-friendly area will motivate more moms and dads to come out with their children for our February Blood Drive. I would like to thank Roula Zografos for all her hard work making phone calls to hundreds of donors the night before and for helping the day of the drive as well. I would also like to thank George Papazicos whose prescence at this event has been invaluable. Above all, I would like to commend and thank Kay Pamas for her continued guidance and leadership which has made this event a success. Kay Pamas has been chairing the Blood Drive for over 50 years, an amazing dedication! Please mark your calendars for our next Blood Drive which will take place on Tuesday, February 5th 2013. Donors: Marcus Arianas George Billims Deanna Cerrone Erinoulla Charalambous Yiannoulla Charalambous Elias Chrysanthis Judith Chrysanthis Chrys Conrady Georgia Constantine Paula Conte Constantine Couluris James Delegianis Katina Demas Robert Dennis Bob Donus Anna Dounelis Faith Drapan John Ebbets Margaret Edelman Michelle Femminella Lawrence Fodrowski Maria Giannopoulos James Ginis Jonathan Gran Irene Gregov Kelly Haass George Hadjoglou Tara Hadjoglou Mark Heighington Gerald Holder Alexandra Inglima Athena Kallinikos Panagiota Karellas Chrisa Kenny 14
Triphon Kollitides Maria Koutsouras Maureen Lane Ellen Leondis Annoula Lukas Catherine Marinos James Matheu Deanna McLaughlin Father Luke Melackrinos Pres. Marusia Melackrinos John Mikos Harry Monioudis George Nickas Ian O’Grady Erika Hadjoglou Palmer Cathy Pantelides Gabrielle Papacostas Spiros Papacostas Roula Partridge Leah Pascarella James Plackis Emanuel Polichronakis Victoria Pontillo Elaine Poulos Costas Rigas Maria Rigas Johanna Scudero James Stephens Lauren Suitors Kalliope Tsigakos Niki Vasiliades Joyce Vlogianitis George Zakos