When the word went out on campus that Dr. Hanna Kolodziejski (Assistant Professor of Biology) was battling leukemia, the KSC community rallied with a bone-marrow registration drive at the end of October. From the beginning, the organizers believed the drive would be a success — they just didn’t realize how big a success it would turn out to be.
Chris Mulcahy, the National Marrow Donor Program representative, told the organizers that 40 registrants would be considered a successful drive. Members of the Biology Senior Seminar class, the Biology Honor Society (BBB), and Biology Club decided that number wasn’t ambitious enough and set their goal at 160 registrants.
On October 30, between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., the drive added 195 individuals to the National Marrow Donor Program. Mr. Mulcahy claimed that KSC more than doubled the number of registrants of any of the college drives he has overseen in the New England region. He was simply overwhelmed by this show of selfless generosity.