Your years of work and your fathers legacy and the rededication of the dr. Charles drew blood center. I feel tied to the American Red Cross in many wonderful ways. Not only because my father dr. Charles r. Drew was so involved in the storage and delivery of blood at the request of the American Red Cross for the blood for britain project in 1940 and 1941. But also because my mother introduced all of us to the American Red Cross as young people and to its work with the candy stripers and to its devotion to good. My mom was Lenore Robins before she became lenore drew. My dad and mom met in atlanta, georgia in 1939. My mother was teaching at Spellman College and my father had gone to make a presentatio at atlanta university. They met at a party and my dad had to leave to go make his presentation but he was so submiten he went back to the United States last night and demanded he see my mother who was living as a dorm mother essentially and he was not permitted to see her but he insisted he