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Helping Others: The Sky’s the Limit

Mark Herrmann
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Celebrating 40 years in the business this year, Mark Herrmann is one of the area’s most hardworking automobile retailers.

From his family-run dealership, Mark Buick-Pontiac-GMC, he has been helping others in Yonkers and the surrounding communities since he opened his dealership. Herrmann sits on the board for St. John’s Riverside Hospital, where he donated a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)-training mannequin earlier this year.

If that wasn’t enough, three years ago Mark set his sights–quite literally–higher, when he joined his friend and fellow pilot, Fox News Meteorologist Nick Gregory, in an organization called Angel Flight. The group is a volunteer corps of over 1,200 private pilots who combine their love of flying with the spirit of grassroots volunteerism to fly patients and their families to the critical health care they need.

The pilots provide free air transportation to patients whose financial resources would not otherwise enable them to receive treatment or diagnosis, or who may live in rural areas without access to commercial airlines. They are also a vital mode of transportation for organs, blood and for patients awaiting organ transplants.

Mark has provided air transportation on five occasions from Westchester County Airport in White Plains, where he keeps his plane, to destinations such as Syracuse, Binghamton, Boston and Maryland. While he is never told the reason for the flight, approximately 50% of Angel Flight patients are children, generally suffering from severe burns or cancer.

Mark gets enormous satisfaction making these compassion flights and hopes that by using his flying skills to get patients badly needed treatment he can ultimately help them soar again in their own lives when they recover.

An active and vocal GNYADA Board Member, he is also Vice President of the National Automobile Dealers Association Charitable Foundation an affiliation he has had for a quarter of a century. He is past president of the Yonkers Rotary Club, past president of the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce, and was named Yonkers man of the year.