Newspaper & Magazine Articles
ISRR has been written about hundreds of
times in articles around the world since its humble beginnings in
1975. We have reproduced some of them here,
especially the early ones highlighting the work of founder and
Registrar, Emma May Vilardi, who passed away in 1990 and then her
husband Anthony Vilardi, who carried on until he retired in 2001.
There have been stretches where publicity nearly overwhelmed the
volunteers and staff with thousands of requests and new
registrations arriving each week. Because everyone was so dedicated,
they would often worked into the night and weekends, until every
registration was processed and every match call made.
Dear Abby
Columnist Abigail Van Buren referred her readers to ISRR many
times since the early 1980's. In the three days
following the publication of the first column, ISRR received more
than 4,500 requests for registration forms. Each time, there
would be a large increase in registrations and resulting matches.
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