Wednesday, November 26 the Mount Pleasant High School National Honor’s Society hosted a blood drive supporting the American Red Cross. The blood drive was held in the high schools Auxiliary gym.
The NHS is one of the nation's premier organizations established to recognize outstanding high school and middle level students. More than an honor roll, the NHS serves to honor students who have demonstrated excellence in the areas of Scholarship, Leadership, Service, and Character.
NHS members organized all the logistics for the drive. The students ran all of the planning and advertising.
The NHS students were responsible for going out and finding blood donors. The goal of making 70 appointments was exceeded with a total of 80 people signing up to donate blood.
Mount Pleasant High School students 17 and older were allowed to donate blood and accounted for much of the drives success.
They NHS had a total of 65 donors, which met their donation goals.
“Our NHS kids are very organized,” Scott Defrain, National Honor Society advisor and Mount Pleasant High School Physics teacher said. “Any time you meet your goal at an event it is considered a success.”
The American Red Cross was founding in 1881 by visionary leader Clara Barton and is the nation's premier emergency response organization. Some four million people give blood—the gift of life—through the Red Cross, making it the largest supplier of blood and blood products in the United States.
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