Red Cross Blood Drive Here Yields Only 2,071 Pints

Despite hopeful predictions that the Blood Drive would top last year's record, the campaign was 39 pints short of 1951's total when it closed yesterday afternoon.

Co-chairmen Laurence I. Alpert '54 and Gordon L. Brumm '53 announced that 2,071 pints were collected in the seven day campaign. In addition, 192 persons who came to the Memorial Hall head-quarters to contribute were turned away for various medical reasons.

Last year 2,110 students in the area donated pints. A representative of the Red Cross, however, suggested that the drop in donations might be accounted for by the many colds at this time of the year.

Of the 3,500 pints pledged, only 2,700 were scheduled for donations. Miss Lee Grace, Red Cross coordinator, reported that the others who had pledged did not return their cards, mostly for lack of parental permission.