4 receive One Brick Higher Award for life-saving response

February 26, 2015  


One Brick Higher

President Mitch Daniels on Feb. 25 presented the One Brick Higher Award to (from left) Teresa Rogers, Julie Huetteman, Dawn Parks and Dinah McClure. (Purdue University photo/Charles Jischke)
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President Mitch Daniels dropped by to surprise four College of Agriculture staff members and thank them for their heroic work this week in helping to save the life of a colleague who collapsed in her office and needed CPR.

The four -- Julie Huetteman, coordinator of Purdue Extension strategic initiatives; Dawn Parks, assistant director of sponsored program development; Dinah McClure, communications specialist and assistant to the dean; and Teresa Rogers, administrative assistant to the director of Extension -- received One Brick Higher Awards during the impromptu visit in the Agricultural Administration Building, where the emergency occurred.

One Brick Higher is a special honor presented to Purdue faculty, staff and students who go beyond the requirements of their role and through extraordinary effort improve the lives of those around them, increase the effectiveness of the workplace or prevent or solve problems.

Huetteman and Parks, both of whom had training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation as lifeguards, administered CPR to the woman -- by both breath and compression methods -- as McClure dialed "911," gave the location of the emergency and conveyed that the woman fell onto the floor and was having trouble breathing. Rogers assisted Huetteman and Parks.

Paramedics arrived within minutes and took the woman to a hospital, where she remains and is undergoing treatment.

"We're all so proud of you," Daniels said during the presentation. "What a wonderful thing to be able to say that at any time in your life you did such a thing."

Daniels said this successful outcome of the life-threatening emergency should serve as an example for others throughout the university to go through CPR training.

Writer: Keith Robinson, 765-494-2722, robins89@purdue.edu

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