Blood Bank Drive Nets 130 Donors After First Week

With responses received from more than 130 students, the Harvard-Radcliffe blood drive promises to go well over its quota of 300 donors, Phillips Brooks House officials declared last night.

Terming the response to the appeal "very favorable," PBH authorities announced that although canvassing is still going on, Dunster House, Weld Hall, and Massachusetts Hall are all over their quotas for donations starting April 9.

Following the announcement of this favorable response, John T. Edsall, associate professor of Biological Chemistry, outlined the uses to which the blood will be put, stressing the importance of keeping a supply ready for emergencies. During the war Edsall worked on the development of new fractionating processes which are now being used to make the fluid usable and relatively imperishable.