This training program was greatly enhanced when the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation and the New Hampshire New Car Dealers' Association presented a “Resusci-Anne” training unit to the college in a formal ceremony last month at the college.

In presenting the CPR unit, which is essential for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training, John E. “Jack” Tulley, president of Tulley Buick-Pontiac-GMC-BMW-Mazda-Volkswagon of Nashua and the National Automobile Dealers Association regional vice chairman said: “If the right kind of treatment can be given to a heart-attack victim within seconds after he or she is stricken, the chances are good that the person's life can be saved.”

Tulley noted that since the massive involvement of Americans who have trained in CPR, there has been an increase in long-term survivors from ventricular fibrillation. Training takes from three to five hours of intensive practice and lecture.

In accepting the CPR training unit, Christopher M. Rousseau, a campus safety officer and adjunct faculty instructor at Daniel Webster College, said that the CPR unit gives signals telling when the trainee is applying correct pressure in the right spot and breathing correctly into the “victim's” mouth. With that type of training, he said students can learn the “feel” of giving quick, lifesaving emergency treatment.