Charles R. Drew

Charles Richard Drew was a very famous and innvative surgeon and educator. He helped to create two of the larges blood banks in the world. not only did he create two of the largest bood banks, he developed a technique of plasma storage. This development is so significant because he helped to save the lives of hundreds of sodiers in World War Ii.

Charles Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington, D.C. He was the eldest of five children born to Thomas, carpet layer, and Nora Burrell Drew, who was a school teacher. In his school years, Charles excelled in athletics and academics alike. He won four swimmung medals by the time he was eight years old. He attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, where he won the James E. Walker Memorial Medal two consecutive years for his excellence i sports.

After graduation from high school, Drew attended Amherst College in Massachusetts on an athletic scholarship. He was named an