Groveton High School - Tigerama Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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Last January, thanks to VICA, Groveton students were given an opportunity to put their ideals of helping others into practice in a unique way. The representatives of the Red Cross who came to the school were not in search of either money or volunteer time, neither of which are possessed in large quantities by most students, but rather blood. Any good biology student knows that anyone who is eligible to give has enough blood so that he will hardly miss the few corpuscles asked of him. Still, many Groveton students were reluctant to give to the bloodmobile. It seems that the average student ' s fun¬ damental desire to do good was opposed by his fun¬ damental fear of being pricked. Still a large propor- of the student body lay down on the table to give blood. The practical result was to help save lives, a fact which seemed to deal a crowning blow to those philosophers at Groveton and elsewhere who are so vocal in reviling the idealism of youth. 12