PBH Blood Drive Asks Secretaries, Staff to Donate

Over 2,000 University secretaries will be among 15,000 students, faculty, and employees solicited for the first, time in the Phillips Brooks House spring term blood drive. The program starts Monday in the College, P.B.H. Co-chairman Jerry H. Miller '53 and Frederick J. Davis '53, announced last night.

Their announcement came after John W. Teele, director of University personnel, gave his permission for University employees to obtain time off to give blood during working hours. Employees are advised to consult their department hands concerning leaving their jobs to donate blood.

Letters went out Wednesday night is some 2,000 faculty members asking them to contribute during the course of the eight-day bloodletting, April 14, 17, 18, and 21-35 in Memorial Hall. Two favorable replies have already been received. Letters will be mailed over the weekend to 4,262 University Buildings and Grounds, kitchen, and clerical help.

On Friday, April 18, Red Cross bloodmobiles will be set up two hours early, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to facilitate employee donations, Miller added. Regular donation hours, noon to 6 p.m. in Memorial Hall, will be maintained for the rest of the campaign.

P.B.H. officials are trying to best last fall's 2,116-pint total, an unofficial collegiate blood record. Red Cross National Headquarters officials say that they tabulate blood contributions only by regions, and thus cannot state whether the University's total is actually the nation's largest. Closest competitor is the University of Idaho with 1,400 pints.