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Izumi Hara - What you need to know about the Red Cross
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I’m always fascinated by people who choose to be of service to others. Reading Viktor Frankl’s book, “Man’s Search for Meaning”, I wrote down this quote because it deeply touched me:
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Izumi Hara is one of those people who responded to the calling. She is currently retired from serving as Senior Vice President, at General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Warner Chilcott PLC, now a division of Allergan.
Izumi has been involved with the American Red Cross since 2008 when she volunteered for the gala committee. She joined the board of the Montclair, Glen Ridge, Nutley chapter shortly after that and has been on the Board of the Northern NJ Chapter since it was formed by merger in 2011. When Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, Izumi volunteered and ran the call center in North Jersey for two weeks and deployed on a roving Red Cross truck to distribute snacks, MREs and clean up supplies in South Fords, which was devastated by flooding in the storm surge.
Currently, she serves on the Boards of the American Red Cross, Northern NJ Chapter, Chautauqua Institution and the YMCA of Montclair where she is the Board Chair. An avid choral singer, Izumi sings when she can with the Oratorio Society of New Jersey and the Yale Alumni Chorus and rings in the bell choir at Union Cong.
Izumi will talk about how the Red Cross started in Europe, the complexity and trustworthiness of their operations, and what we can do to support, no matter how little we may be able to offer.
A little bit from a lot of people can have a powerful impact.
Contact me if you wish to speak further to Izumi.
www.RedCross.org
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