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Dr. Charles Drew
Title: Dr. Charles Drew
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 591 | Pages: 2.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Dr. Charles Drew
Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington, D.C. He was very athletic as a child. Charles attended Dunbar High School where he won letters in track, baseball, basketball and football. He won the James E. Walker Memorial Medal as outstanding all-around athlete.
Charles attended Amherst College in Massaschusetts on a scholarship. He was named an all-American halfback and won the Thomas W. Ashley Memorial Trophy as the Most Valuable Player on Amherst's …showed first 75 words of 591 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 591 total…road. He was killed and the other doctors suffered minor injuries. Although his life was cut short at the age of 46, the techniques he developed for storing and transfusing blood continue to be used to save lives. In 1981, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in the Great Americans series in his honor. In 1966, the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School was incorporated in the State of California as a private, non-profit, educational institution.
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