September 27, 2004
American
Red Cross Presents Outstanding College Award to Lincoln University
For Sponsoring Blood Drives to Help Children with Sickle Cell
Disease.
Lincoln has received the award three years in a row.
LINCOLN
UNIVERSITY,
for the third year in a row, has received the Outstanding College
Award from the American Red Cross for successfully sponsoring
blood drives at the campus in southern Chester County, PA. The
award is given to the college that has the most units designated
to help children diagnosed with sickle cell disease. Accepting
the award for the University (L-R) are: Taundria Boodie, senior
majoring in biology from Brooklyn, NY, and vice president of Students
Against AIDS; Linda Racine, director of the University's Health
Services Center; and Dr. William B. Bynum, Jr., Lincoln’s
Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management.
In April
2004, 25 units were collected for the sickle cell program. Since
April 2001, Lincoln has collected over 185 pints of blood; also,
since each pint can save up to three lives, that’s 555 lives
saved! The next drive at Lincoln is scheduled for October 19,
2004.
Contact: Samuel W. Pressley, director, Lincoln University
Office of Marketing and Communications: 610-932-1094; e-mail:
spressley@lu.lincoln.edu.
