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

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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

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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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Albany and all night tumult in a motel which won ' t be the same ever again . . . serenading the faculty, Willie, Louie, and Roy, not to mention the Dean ... all night parties . . . The Raiders strike at all rooms . . . 1500 card games . . . and back to school, with one more course than in the fall . . . we have something new in practicals: ID ' s and overdoses and wrapping and typing labels . . . Dr. Clay and Physiology . . . he ' s great, but who can hear his jokes? . . . mechanism on an organic exam . . . several tried and trusted men dropping back a year but replaced by others from Senior Class ... are we getting our class rings too soon? . . . 12-page physiology reports . . . and stick- ing your head into a paper bag for what seemed like an hour . . . the educated finger turning out excellent kymographs . . . Management, the wonder of all our courses and more guys flunking it than Dispensing, an all-time record . . . but Dr. Kuramoto, understanding all our pressures, leaving us off early, to walk home dead tired wondering what the % !XX partition coefficients mean . . . spring, and the sun is out later, and lectures seem longer and longer . . . Augie running up and down opening and closing shades . . . McK R show, in which Johnny finally used Yo- dora and won Mary . . . The finals, now stretched out, are longer and harder than ever . . . Joe goes to Florida, a cause for a rapid exchange of telegrams . . . laughing at the troubles of the Freshmen with the new point system . . . Awards again go to Marv and Ave ... 1 year to go. Who will make it?