FOR
RELEASE: IMMEDIATELY
DATE: Oct. 13, 2009
CONTACT: Lisa
Skari: (206) 870-3705, lskari@highline.edu
Highline Community College
honored for blood donations
DES
MOINES, Wash. — Highline Community College was honored for its support of blood
donations on Sept. 18 at the Twin Lakes Golf and Country Club in Federal Way.
Puget
Sound Blood Center’s Community Service Award recognizes the college and its
efforts to plan and execute community blood drives four times a year. Each
blood drive averages 200 donors.
“The
faculty, staff and students of Highline Community College take pride in serving
our community, and this recognition is just one example of the incredible work
they do,” said Highline President Dr. Jack Bermingham.
“We are honored to be the recipient of Community Service Award and look forward
to a continued partnership that provides needed blood to our area hospitals.”
Highline
has registered more than 2,900 donors since 1994 and the college’s donations
have potentially benefited up to 8,865 patients in the region.
Highline ’s Student Nursing Club sponsors
the blood drives on campus for community members and faculty, staff and
students.
For
more information about the Puget Sound Blood Center, visit www.psbc.org.
For
more information about Highline’s Nursing program,
visit http://rn.highline.edu.
Highline
Community College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King
County. With approximately 18,300 students and 350,000 alumni, it is one of the
state’s largest institutions of higher education. The college offers a wide
range of academic transfer and professional-technical education programs, with
day, evening, online and weekend classes.
With
the most diverse population of any college in Washington state,
Highline takes a multicultural approach to education for the success of all its
students and the prosperity of its surrounding communities. Alumni include
former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, entrepreneur Junki
Yoshida and Washington state poet laureate Sam Green.
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Attachments:
Highline Community College President Dr. Jack Bermingham and Teri Trillo, Highline’s
Nursing program coordinator, accept the Puget Sound
Blood Center’s Community Service Award.
Photo credit: Photo courtesy of the Puget Sound Blood Center.