Key Club Blood Drive Nets 46 Lifesaving Pints

In a heartwarming display of caring for their fellow man, Huntington High School students, faculty and staff members donated 46 pints of blood during a fall drive organized by the school’s Key Club.

Blood and blood products are always in demand. There seems to be a perpetual shortage of the lifesaving substance. So, blood drives are no trivial matter. Key club faculty advisors Kelly Kaiser and Gina Colica were more than pleased with how the event turned out.

Club officers Charlotte Gordon (president), Jack Ruthkowski (vice president), Samantha Koepele (historian), Brooke Parks (secretary), Giovanna Lanfranco (treasurer), Jaipreet Singh (chief financial assistant) and attendance officers Marianna Diaz, Nicolas Francis and John Joyce were all involved in the drive in one way or another.

The Key Club hosted the drive in collaboration with Long Island Blood Services, which staffed the event. It was held in the high school auditorium.

“We had an incredible turnout,” Ms. Gordon. We were able to collect a total of 46 pints, saving approximately 138 lives. Key Club would like to express our immense gratitude to all who came to the auditorium to donate. It was our best turn out in years!”

A wing of the New York Blood Center, Long Island Blood Service has been fulfilling its commitment to the people of LI and Queens for decades by supplying life-saving blood products and services to about 50 hospitals throughout Nassau, Suffolk and Queens.

Headquartered in Westbury, LIBS is the largest region within New York Blood Center, partnering with over 1,400 business, education, government, religious and community organizations to conduct an estimated 300 mobile blood drives each month.”