Spurred on by official Red Cross recognition of B’nai B’rith’s record of more than 24,000 blood donors during 1942, B’nai B’rith men’s and women’s groups, Aleph Zadik Aleph chapters and Hillel Foundations throughout the country today launched an intensified drive to surpass that mark during 1943 in keeping with the pledge made by Henry Monsky, president of B’nai B’rith, to Norman H. Davis, chairman of the Red Cross, that the Red Cross Blood Donor Service’s campaign for 4,000,000 donors in 1943 “will receive the unqualified support of B’nai B’rith manpower and machinery.”
In reply to this pledge, which coincided with an announcement that 3,812 more B’nai B’rith, AZA and Hillel members had been recorded as blood donors since January 1, bringing the national total to 29,009, Mr. Davis wrote Mr. Monsky that the Red Cross “has learned by experience that it can depend upon B’nai B’rith in the support of every humanitarian undertaking,” B’nai B’rith blood donors in 1942 accounted for approximately 2% of the total of 1,300,000 for the whole country.
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