Blood Drive Starts Monday; Band Act to Begin Campaign

The Harvard Band will inaugurate this year's PBH blood drive in halftime ceremonies at tomorrow's Davidson game.

Band formations will denote the need for blood and one will spell out, "Give blood now." The campaign starts Monday morning with door to door canvassing. A booth will also be set up in Harvard Square.

Milton Engel '56, of Eliot, and M. Mark Klein'56, of Leverett, co-chairmen of the drive, announced last night that this year's quota will be 2,500 delivered pints. Harvard set the national record last year with 2,300 contributions out of over 3,000 pledges.

Klein cited the need for increased donations this year since the national stock-pile of whole blood is "dangerously low."

Excessive drains upon whole blood reserves for use in combatting polio, and lowered contributions caused by cessation of the Korean fighting caused a state of emergency earlier this year. Reserves have been slowly built up, but are far short of a minimum safe level able to combat some national emergency.