Auburn School District No. 408
915 4th Street Northeast, Auburn, WA  98002

7/24/06

NEWS RELEASE
Local Doctor Wins Washington State
Association of Career and Technical Education Award of Merit

Dr. Graham Reedy has been selected by the Washington State Association of Career and Technical Education (WA-ACTE) for the Award of Merit. The WA-ACTE Award of Merit is given to the “business firms, industries, farm and home leaders, boards of education, boards of trustees, lay citizens group, state or national committees, and any other types of organizations that have contributed significantly to Career and Technical Education.”

Dr. Reedy, a local doctor specializing in family practice and sports medicine, has made significant contributions to the Auburn School District, and specifically Career and Technical Education, over the years. His roles include: member of Auburn School District’s Sports Medicine Advisory Board for the past 12 years; team physician for Auburn Mountainview High School’s sports teams; host physician and speaker for the 2002 Washington Vocational Sports Medicine Association’s (WVSMA) Competition; and volunteer sports medicine advisor for Sumner School District.

One of Dr. Reedy’s most well-known contributions was his leadership role in the 2004 Heart of Auburn Schools Committee—a committee comprised of local physicians and community members who developed a campaign to place an AED within two to three minutes of every student and person on school district property. Every year in the U.S, 220,000 people suffer sudden cardiac arrest; 7,000 of them are students. Out of the total number, only 5% or 11,000 survive. Fatal arrhythmia (irregular beating of the heart) can only be reversed with early electrical shock delivered by an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED). The ability to successfully convert this certain death to “a save” drops off 7-10% every minute a shock is delayed. Because of Dr. Reedy’s successful campaign, Auburn School District now has AEDs within two to three minutes of every student and staff member.

The WA-ACTE awards banquet is on Sunday, August 6 at 6 p.m. at the Red Lion Hotel at the Park in Spokane, Washington. Dr. Reedy will be out of the country, but a representative will accept the award for him on his behalf.

For more information contact Cindi Blansfield, Coordinator of CTE and Technology, at (253) 931-4903.