Dr. Charles Drew was born on June 3, 1904, the son of Richard and Nora Drew and the eldest of five children. Dr. Drew was an individual that happened to excel in almost everything he put his hands to and he did on every level. He would go on in years to come to be a pioneer in the field of medicine. Charles's early interests were in education, esp. in medicine. He was an outstanding athlete. As an adolescent, he was an award winning swimmer and starred Dunbar High School in football, baseball, track and field, winning the James E. Walker Memorial medal as his school's best all-around athlete. After graduating from Dunbar in 1922, he attended Amherst College in Massachusetts where he captained the track team and starred as a halfback on the school's football team, winning the Thomas W. Ashley Memorial trophy in his junior year as the team most valuable player and being named to the All-American team.
After graduating from Amherst, Drew took on a position as biology teacher at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland and also served as the school's Athletic Director. During his two years at Morgan State, he helped turned the school's basketball and football programs into collegiate champions. In 1928 Charles decided to pursue medicine and enrolled at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He was received as a member of the Medical Honorary Society and graduated in 1933 with Master of Surgery and Doctor of Medicine degrees, finishing second in a class of 127 students. He was known for working with blood plasma. For more of the story, clink on the link above.
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