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While
attending Ramsey High School, Gregory Wachtler spent his Saturdays
as a volunteer at Community Blood Services (CBS) in Paramus,
New Jersey. His mother was a platelet donor at CBS for 22 years.
Tragically, the 25-year-old Rutgers graduate was killed on 9-11
while working at Fred Alger Management on the 93 rd floor of
WTC 1.
Afterwards, Gregory’s parents, Paul and
Nassima Wachtler of Ramsey, teamed together with Community Blood
Services to collect 15,000 pints of blood - the same amount that
was lost that fateful day when 3,000 perished.� As of March
2005, the Wachtler family has helped to collect nearly 3,400
units.
They still have a long way to go, so the Wachtlers
decided to try to add another bloodmobile to the center’s
fleet so more blood drives could be held and more blood collected
towards their goal. |
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The Wachtlers have pledged
$25,000 in a challenge grant toward purchasing a
bloodmobile in their son’s memory. It will be known as Gregory’s
Bloodmobile and will bear his likeness as an incentive to other young
people to make blood donations a part of their lives. The Wachtlers
hope it will help make additional blood drives possible and save
more lives, as well as help keep alive the memory of 9-11 victims.
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Also, donate blood in |
Gregory's Memory |
Visit the blood
center |
and use the code
GWMD |
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click on
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Bloodmobile |
Challenge |
icon
to contribute |
online |
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To meet this challenge,
CBS has launched a campaign to collect at least $25,000 from generous
supporters throughout the area and get this special bloodmobile on
the road.� The total cost for a new bloodmobile will be more
than $175,000.�
Interested contributors can go online by clicking
on the Bloodmobile challenge icon (above), or call
Therese Musto at the Community Blood Services Foundation at (201)
705-1623.
CBS has collection centers in Paramus, NJ and Goshen,
NY. Community groups, high schools and corporations can schedule
blood drives with CBS, which provides blood and blood products to
37 hospitals in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris and Passaic counties
in New Jersey, as well as to hospitals in New York City and Orange
and Rockland counties in New York. Anyone interested in sponsoring
a drive can call 201-444-3900 � |
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