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SICKLE CELL ADVOCATE AND PHILANTHROPIST HOWARD WOOLLEY RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS AWARD AT THE ROLAND B. SCOTT MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM
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| Howard Woolley, Sickle Cell Advocate and Philanthropist |
Washington, DC -- Howard Woolley, Sickle Cell Advocate and Philanthropist, was presented with a "Sickle Cell Outstanding Service Award" at the 2019 Roland B. Scott Memorial Symposium Tuesday, May 7, 2019. One of Woolley's most significant accomplishments in the Sickle Cell arena was to publish his late wife's memoir - SOAR by Gail Campbell Woolley.
She passed away in 2015 following her battle with SCD. Thanks to SOAR and Howard, Gail's story is still being told today.
Woolley had the novel published posthumously in 2017. Since then he has traveled from Sickle Cell Symposiums to Sickle Cell Conferences spreading his late-wife's story of 'SOARING' above a dim prognosis. Gail was told at the age of 7 that she wouldn't live past the age of 35, but she proved doctors wrong. She lived a full life as she battled the disease and lived till the age of 58. In those years Gail had a successful career and marriage but she also fought sickle cell disease with success; she didn't let her diagnosis stop her. In fact, she “soared” above the obstacles by graduating from Syracuse University and then going on to become a journalist at The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Times and The Washington Star.
