In 1989 I was invited to run a Red Cross Blood Bank Collection in conjunction with the annual Thanksgiving Road Race in Manchester, the third oldest road race in America. I gladly accepted, not only because I had been a surgeon for over forty years, but also because I realized the importance of having blood available for medical emergencies. My task was made easier by the fact that I could give each donor of a unit of blood a Thanksgiving Road Race t-shirt. The program began modestly but soon became the largest single collection in the entire state. Today the Blood Collection program is an integral part of Manchester's celebrated Road Race on Thanksgiving Day. On the tenth anniversary of the program I was made Honorary Chairman of the Road Race. The full story of the Manchester Road Race is available at: http://www.manchesterroadrace.com. Below are the cover and first page of the race brochure from 1999, the year I was honorary chairman.