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When necessary, he opens the store late at night so that the squad members can replenish their supplies. During the manhunt in April Mr. Clater opened up several times in the dead of night to furnish supplies for sandwiches and drinks, donating a substantial amount of food, coffee and sodas for the hungry searchers and their support teams.
He has also been the source of a number of valuable suggestions for fund-raising activities for the Sperryville squad. “In large measure through his cooperation last fall,” Mrs. Powell said, “the squad cleared more than $5,000 on hot dogs, hamburgers and other foods.” The squad members worked every weekend during October at a booth at the Sperryville Emporium.
“For his many years of unfailing support for the Sperryville Volunteer Rescue Squad,” Mrs. Powell said in presenting the plaque, “a Certificate of Appreciation goes to the owner of the Sperryville Corner Store, Randolph Clater.”
Mr. Clater was also recently recognized by the Sperryville squad, which made him an Honorary Life Member.
Other awards bestowed by the RREMSC at its annual dinner were:
• Call of the Year: Remington Volunteer Fire/Rescue Squad, Culpeper County Volunteer Rescue Squad, Orange County Volunteer Rescue Squad.
• Outstanding Squad Member: Ann Davis, training officer, Marshall Rescue Squad.
• Special Award for Service: Michael Florence, former director of RREMSC.
The dinner speaker, Dr. David Schenk, a trauma surgeon from the University of Virginia Medical Center, told the group that Virginia is one of only two states in the country which are prepared to deliver adequate trauma care — Maryland being the second. Seventeen other states are deficient, Dr. Schenk said, and the rest haven’t even begun to address the need for a statewide system of trauma centers offering advanced care around the clock.
Dr. Schenk is living proof that EMS works: badly burned in a plane crash on Bryce Mountain, he has recovered and is back at work. But, he credits the care he received with his astounding recovery. Despite the high costs, he said, “survival alone is not the end — we need improved rehabilitation.”
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