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Show Page 12 HILL TOP TIMES " BLOOD PROGRAM SUPERVISORS Bonneville Chapter ARC volunteer Barbara Wallace (left), is greeted by James Stephens, Hill AFB blood" programs officer, and Joan Cline, ARC volunteer and blood donations chairman. iiMIW TIt,rTT GIVERS J,stf r blood donors from AFB have been marked up since last July. "This fine record reveals the generous spirit of both military and civilians," commented James E. Stephens, blood programs officer, "and it is one that must be continued to fill the three blood programs that are being carried on simultaneously at Hill AFB. "Each has its distinct uses, and to carry them out I am supported by thousands of other people. The principal ones are the base blood coordinators I Willi I I - , . iMxtl i - TESTING TABLE Wesley Moore, a Maintenance employee, has a blood sample taken by ARC volunteer worker to qualify him as a blood donor. Blood for Vietnam "The first of our base blood programs," Mr. Stephens said, "is the mission: the Vietnam Blood program which asks for donations every four weeks, with emphasis on the badly-neede- d "0" type blood. The next of these will be Nov. with a quota of 380 units to be met." The Clinical Lab at the 2791st USAF Hospital is the smal'est one in the Air Force that handles the monthly Vietnam blood drives. Capt. Diane Charpentier, chief of Laboratory Services, supervises the Vietnam drawings. Her staff is proud of the fact that they have never failed to meet the DOD quota asked of Hill AFB. Col. F. E. Foley, base hospital commander, stated that ed 19-2- 0, 'SB"; - 4 J 1 ft: Typist Darlene Suelzle (left) and Linda Lutich. have come to offer their in each organization ; the Red Cross volunteers; and the hundreds of Air Force members, civilian and military, who give their blood. They are the ones who keep it going." Mr. Stephens came to Hill AFB last July as base health educator, from the Utah State Health Department where he was a pubUc health consultant. He had graduated from Utah State University with a major in bacteriology and minor in chemistry; and as an FSEE eligible was assigned to the Supply directorate at Hill AFB in 1961. He worked as supply commodity officer until he returned to his academic field of public health about two years ago. DOD-direct- M aI1 over Hl11 AFB w B)ll0 Pin)ir A total of 1,729 responses to blood drives by donors at Hill prober 14 : at J .' r: ARn . iuuu io the te Call leasfr 10 per cent of the hos- pital staff are required for handling the regular Vietnam drives. Mrs. Robert H. McCutcheon, wife of the Ogden AMA commander, and honorary chairman and staff advisor to the Red Cross volunteer group, always works on this program, one in which she is vitally in- terested. Since July 1 more than 1,000 Hill AFB peop'e have responded to the Vietnam blood requests; and more than 600 from Tooele Army Depot, Defense Depot Ogden and Dug-wa- y Proving Grounds, which use of the Hill facilities to con- tribute. emergency uses, such as Camille hurricane aster in Mississippi. j Hill Red Cross volunteers assist nurses at the center, anf work at all except technical1 chores for which professional training is required. J In the past four months more than 600 military and civilian workers responded to the Cross blood drive at this Red base.1 Individual Requests I The third program under Mr.: Stephens' direction is the ! in-- dividual donor requests, when' a Hill AFB employee or family! member is a patient in a hos- pital where the Red Cross program is not in effect, and where open heart surgery or replace--; - J ment of blood is required, per-Red Cross Drive basis. The second 'blood program haps on an emergency that; Mr. Stephens reported carried on at this base is the since July 1, 107 Hill AFB Red Cross Blood Drive, also sons had come forward to offer j held every four weeks. (Photoblood when coordinators have! graphs of a typical morning asked their help under these j at the Blood Donor Center are circumstances. At these times shown.) the blood must be new, and j The object of this program must be carefully selected from j is to keep a blood bank built up the waiting donors; some j for Hill AFB employees, civildonors will inevitably be re- ian and military, and their jectea. families, which can be called Mr. Stephens praisea xne k T7.nSA ruiw-'-be- rs upon if they need blood at any generosity oif Air of the hospitals which particiat this base, and hoped pate in the Red Cross Blood that their fine attitude would Program. Many military in- continue to be in evidence, bstallations have this type of. ecause of the in program. need for all blood types Since the Red Cross nurses variety of forms. out, His personal thanks go and other workers sustain the coordinadministrative expense of this he reiterated, to the volunteers plan for the Salt Lake City ators and Red Cross for their Wood bank, the Red Cross at Hill, and all donors, program. may tap this blood supply for cooperation in the X per-- 1 i . 1 WI0TTU ever-increasi- LABELING TABLE Three ARC volunteers (left to right) Erma McGuire, Ruth Tomazich and Virginia Asakura, set up bottles and individual kits for each donor to carry to the "draw-ng room. 1 1 yS--t ! A A RELAX AND ENJOY IT Red Cross bloodmobile nurse Ellen is at work with the blood drawing white Glerisch, competently donor rests on his cot. i J x-t-i- U x Ffjv vrfW & 3'" jri I n ' X AW1 V ijlj -- : -w and COFFEE TIME Three blood donors from the 2952nd CLSS stop after are served coffee and cookies by ARC voluntrs Maxine Jones (left) and Dottle cj"" |