Devon Prep Students Give Gift of Life

March 9, 2011 - PRLog -- Devon Preparatory School’s Christian Action Program (CAP) recently sponsored the 2011 American Red Cross Blood Drive.  Parents, teachers, students and staff donated nearly 40 pints of blood. Each pint of donated blood has the potential to save three lives.

    In addition to donating whole blood that contains red blood cells, platelets and plasma, several of Devon Prep’s donors opted to participate in the Automated Red Cell Collection, where they provided two units of life-saving red blood cells during one donation.  Some four million people give blood each year through the Red Cross, making it the largest supplier of blood and blood products in the United States.

    For more than 50 years, the American Red Cross has been an innovator and a leader in transfusion medicine and research. Started as a relief effort to provide lifesaving plasma and blood during World War II, Red Cross Blood Services has grown-collecting and distributing nearly half the nation's blood supply and many therapeutic blood products.

    Devon Prep is a private, Catholic, college preparatory school for young men in grades six to 12, conducted by the Piarist Fathers. The school enrolls nearly 300 students who hail from Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Bucks counties as well as parts of Philadelphia.  The Main Line campus sits on 20 acres on North Valley Forge Road in Devon, PA.  For more information contact Devon Prep at 610-688-7337 or visit http://www.devonprep.com, www.facebook.com/devonprep.