A continued commitment to helping others
by Dan Dowling – regional communications manager “This is about neighborhoods and about the community that I'm in . My donation is life saving .” Mark Wolf of Poultney, Vermont has spent his life giving himself to others, in his career, as a volunteer and as a blood donor. In his late teens, Mark signed up for f irst a id training through the Red Cross . Soon he put those lifesaving skills to work as a volunteer EMT with a local volunteer ambulance company . “I always have done volunteer work, even when I was a teenager,” he says. Marks recalls his second call with the ambulance company. He says it was a life-changing exper ience. H e responded to a flipped-over convertible with two patients in desperate need of blood. The hospital ’s blood bank was empty , and doctors had to search among employees for a match. This moment ignited Mark’s lifelong commitment to blood donation. He’s now been giving blood on a regular basis for several decades – and estim
