a presentatio at atlanta university. they met at a party and my dad had to leave to go make his presentation but he was so submiten he went back to the united states last night and demanded he see my mother who was living as a dorm mother essentially and he was not permitted to see her but he insisted he would and he did. i was then born a year after that and this was the very time my father was doing the work with the red cross that he had  for britain project in which blood and plasma was shipped overseas and it was such anu%3Ñ important time because there were so many soldiers wounded in the war. what my father discovered was that red blood and plasma could be preserved and shipped overseas and he also devised the first mobile red cross truck, essentially, to refrigerate the blood and preserve it. so that was an important contribution and it was the first time that he worked with the american red cross. my dad's legacy is one of deep passion for the work which he did as a clinician, for the work that he did as a teac