[aruanan]

So much for Elizabeth Dole's managerial prowess. Usually, a good manager leaves his mark long after he is gone. V's wife.

You could just as easily have said that the present Red Cross would be in much worse straights than it is now if it had not been for her leadership. But it appears that you already had a conclusion that begged a premise which you so gratuitously supplied.

[ventana]

Well, aruanan and my pointy head, perhaps you would checkout backhoe's post #5 he has nicely included Wallaby's excellent research on the Blood business and if you see article number 4, it specifically discusses the Red Cross "from disaster relief to Blood." Liddy Dole was the head of the Red Cross from 1991 to 1999, she did nothing to reform it, as far as I can tell, nor did she do anything to establish the capacity for freezing blood that Bernadine Healy began to realize--due to the atrocity-- was needed. That kind of capacity for a volunteer organization would take a five year business plan and lots of fundraising. Suddenly Bernadine had a lot of cash she thought could be applied for a worthy cause. Perhaps her sentiment was right but the method of funding wasn't. My point was and is, Dole ran that outfit for almost ten years, you don't go from a brilliant organization to a mismanaged fiasco in under two years. Obviously we disagree. V's wife.