Columbia University College of Pharmacy - Apothekan Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Joe Kanig tells us what soph- omore means . . . the weekly unravelling of the fire hose in Pupin Hall . . . Many of us hoisting ourselves up to the ceiling via the pullevs in the Physics Lab . . . With half the class fighting for its very life in Calc, the exams get longer and longer ... A summer course in this subject becomes inevitable . . . Have you no- ticed what the class behind us looks like? With leather jackets and all, many of them look like gangsters . . . Buying Quant, weights in the locker room . . . Remember what the class yelled whenever Doc Henley asked a student his name? . . . The wasted hours watching fluid- extracts drip out of percolators? . . . Friday afternoons off . . . How we mumbled, though, about the nerve of the office making us stay until 6 once a week for calculations . . . Bill Weingold rides to the rescue with his short-cuts in sp. gr. problems . . . The Anodyne office in the lounge goes the way of all things . . . Remem- ber the ice-cream machine in the lunch room? How long did it last? A week? . . . With an- other year closing, we go to Hoffman-LaRoche, where we are formally introduced to or- ganic chemistry, and where everybody got a souvenir mor- tar and pestle . . . The Iodine comes out, and JLK is featured . . . Ave and Marv get their first awards on Alumni night . . . everybody promises to study- organic over the summer, but no one does.

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SOPHOMORE Green blackboards ... a new faculty member from California to teach Sam ' s course . . . first taste of Pharmacy with 6 prod- ucts the first day in lab (but only 1 the last day, after we had learned to work under pressure) . . . once again Yanks beat Dodgers ... so long to Harry Asch . . . the class will in Anodyne ... at last, a revo- lutionary objective attained — toilet seats! ... 2 hour calc. exams given in 15 minutes . . . Larry Defrin Sandy Cohen bringing a bit of bop language to CUCP . . . football games in Central Park . . . the famous meeting with the Dean con- cerning the marks we attained, a meeting which ended by dis- cussing Pharmacy lab. assistants. . . . Jerry Bodin answering a question in Chem. with a 30 minute monologue . . . Keep your hands off the centriluge! . . . Remember how we sweated during a practical when we had to make a lotion and a syrup in 3 hours? . . . PHYSICS! most interesting visits to the campus . . . Dr. Henley and his remote- controlled window shades . . . very few students occupying the same seat all year . . . playing with rifles in Physics lab . . . finals— and who passed Louie ' s? v-nn air Robert Bebarfald William Weingold Francoise Kelz Louis Malspeis d Samuel S. Liberman

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JUNIOR Brand-new, black, real slate blackboards ... a discussion of the efficacy of the various types of chalk . . . once again, a course in the Botany lab, but this time we ' re sophisticated, and don ' t hide when we copy last year ' s drawings . . . The class average in organic soars, and Prof. DiSomma makes the exams more difficult . . . How many sections in the middle part of a bug ' s body? . . . Nat Heller- bach teaching a 3 year high school course in 4 2 months and wondering why we were tired each Friday afternoon from 4 to 6 . . . The long-awaited Dis- pensing course, and Joe ' s prac- ticals, and the t for time when the l ecture was over . . . sell- ing now a vogue: weights, ac- counting paper, notes, exams, Rx ' s, Facts and Comparisons . . . why are organic lectures given so late in the day? . . . marks of 108, 110 and 14 on the same chem exam . . . Debo- nair Nat taking his law final from old Regents exams . . . up all night for 5 days as final followed final with relentless intensity . . . barber-pole sup- positories . . . see so-and-so for the organic product ... 45 of us copying organic lab book for entire semester 2 hours before it ' s due . . . noted with appre- hension: difficulties of Seniors with Louie in Medicinals . . . Joe burning all his old finals in the cellar pit . . . every- body guessing on Frank ' s final and walking out in 20 minutes . . . new furniture in the lounge at long last . . . the end of the semester means, OFF TO AL- BANY! ) :■ II Nathan J. Hellerbach Leonard T. Chavkin Joseph L. Kanig August A. DiSomma Roy Kuramoto