{"id":3469,"date":"2011-04-08T09:53:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2018-06-01T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T17:26:20","slug":"campus-blood-drive-nets-record-health-fair-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"Campus blood drive nets record; Health Fair a success"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gayanne<\/a>Gayanne Scott does not remember why she donated her first pint of O-negative blood.<\/p>\n

But after donating her 48th<\/sup> pint Tuesday \u2013 the equivalent of six gallons \u2013 the executive director of resource management has a pretty good idea why she takes time to donate every year. For her efforts, Memorial Hospital staff members presented her with a pin. But jewelry was not the motivator for the longtime UCCS financial resource manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a busy person,\u201d Gayanne Scott said. \u201cThis is my way of giving back to the community. It\u2019s simple. It\u2019s easy. And it makes a big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Gayanne<\/a>Hearing personal stories of how someone\u2019s life was saved as the result of a blood donation, or that one pint of her blood could help six newborns, motivates the mother of two to roll up her sleeve for every campus blood drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m healthy and my kids were born healthy,\u201d Gayanne Scott said. \u201cI know how lucky I am and am glad to be able to help someone else.\u201d
\nAssisting with the blood donation drives is a tradition for the budget and accounting offices. Former supervisor\u00a0 Juan Garcia used to dress up as Count Dracula for Halloween-themed drives and Gayanne Scott was chair or co-chair of the drive from 1996 to 2003. S\"\"<\/a>he passed the responsibility to other members of the Resource Management Division including Julie Brewster, controller; Brad Bailey, accountant; and Suzanne Scott, budget operations manager.<\/p>\n

The tradition seems to be working.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s blood drive, conducted in partnership with the Health Fair, resulted in 117 units collected, a record. About 25 people were turned away as the drive concluded. The Health Fair drew an estimated 500\u00a0participants and 50 vendors, according to Stephanie Hanenberg, director, Student Health Center.<\/p>\n

But never one to rest on laurels, drive co-chairs Gayanne Scott and Brewster hope to break the donation record soon. A first-ever three-day campus blood drive is scheduled for Oct. 25-27.<\/p>\n

For more information on blood donation, visit the Memorial Health System Blood Donation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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— Photos by Jeff Foster, University Advancement<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gayanne Scott does not remember why she donated her first pint of O-negative blood.<\/p>\n

But after donating her 48th pint Tuesday \u2013 the equivalent of six gallons \u2013 the executive director of resource management has a pretty good idea why she takes time to donate every year. (More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12,13],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events","category-photo-features","tag-photo-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_3506.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-TX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32256,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/32256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}