Local students need donors
Sirius Welch
Issue date: 3/1/10 Section: Campus
UM-Flint will host a Red Cross blood drive and bone marrow donor signup on March 10. Emma Hudson and Alec Gomez desperately need bone marrow transplants to treat their Leukemia.
Hudson, an 11-year old Grand Blanc student, has a rare form of Leukemia involving the Philadelphia chromosome. Gomez, a 17-year old Flint Powers High School senior, will most likely need a transplant from someone who matches his Hispanic heritage.
Students from Tony McGill's COM 428 class will help recruit people to be donors, as well as help set up and take down the doning areas. The students' goal is to sign up 75 people to the bone marrow donor list.
"I am especially proud of my students work on the Red Cross Bone Marrow Registry, since they have beat out many larger schools (like Michigan State), with their record registration drives," said McGill, communications and visual arts department lecturer IV. McGill has been involved with the Red Cross since the 1970s and has gotten his COM 428 students involved for at least the last four years.
The first location will be in the Happenings Room in the University Center from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and the second will be in the Tuscola Room of the White Building from 2:30-8:30 p.m. Both events will take place on March 10.
Sirius can be reached at siriusw@umflint.edu.
Hudson, an 11-year old Grand Blanc student, has a rare form of Leukemia involving the Philadelphia chromosome. Gomez, a 17-year old Flint Powers High School senior, will most likely need a transplant from someone who matches his Hispanic heritage.
Students from Tony McGill's COM 428 class will help recruit people to be donors, as well as help set up and take down the doning areas. The students' goal is to sign up 75 people to the bone marrow donor list.
"I am especially proud of my students work on the Red Cross Bone Marrow Registry, since they have beat out many larger schools (like Michigan State), with their record registration drives," said McGill, communications and visual arts department lecturer IV. McGill has been involved with the Red Cross since the 1970s and has gotten his COM 428 students involved for at least the last four years.
The first location will be in the Happenings Room in the University Center from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and the second will be in the Tuscola Room of the White Building from 2:30-8:30 p.m. Both events will take place on March 10.
Sirius can be reached at siriusw@umflint.edu.
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