Editing Charles R. Drew (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Minnie-Lenore-Robbins.jpg|thumb|Minnie Lenore Robbins with NIH Director, Donald Frederickson, unveiling of bust and exhibit of her husband, 1981]]

In 1939, Drew married Minnie Lenore Robbins, a professor of home economics at [[Spelman College]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], whom he had met earlier during that year.<ref>[http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/BG/p-nid/336 Biography] by [[United States National Library of Medicine]]</ref> They had three daughters and a son.<ref name=DrewPapers /> His daughter [[Charlene Drew Jarvis]] served on [[Council of the District of Columbia]] from 1979 to 2000, was the president of [[Southeastern University (Washington, D.C.)|Southeastern University]] from 1996 until 2009, and was a president of the District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce.<ref>(1) {{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080716231333/http://www.dcboee.org/information/eo_index/history/ward%204.shtm|archive-date=2008-07-16|title=Ward 4 Member of the Council of the District of Columbia|publisher=District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics|url=http://www.dcboee.org/information/eo_index/history/ward%204.shtm}}<br>(2) {{cite web|last=Hallman|first=Lesly|access-date=2004-06-04|url=http://www.redcross.org/article/0,1072,0_312_2825,00.html|title=Legacy and Memory of Charles Drew Lives On|publisher=[[American Red Cross]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041127220225/http://www.redcross.org/article/0,1072,0_312_2825,00.html|archive-date=2004-11-27}}<br>(3) {{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823021939/http://www.nationalhealthmuseum.org/themuseum/board.html|archive-date=2007-08-23|title=Board of Trustees: The Honorable Charlene Drew Jarvis, PhD, Secretary|publisher=The National Health Museum|date=January 2007|access-date=2007-04-01|url=http://www.nationalhealthmuseum.org/themuseum/board.html}}</ref>