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

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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?

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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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SENIOR Same blackboards but a new plaid one added . . . the piano disappears ... 146 to go .. . Louie is ill, and Dr. Clay takes over all the lectures as Core comes to CUCP ... all the notes mixed up ... a French import makes a hit for a while . . . the inquisition begins in Pcol Cosmetics, and 10 of us almost break our legs sliding over shampooed floors ... a chance for revenge, as we so- phisticated seniors mess up Bill Weingold ' s lab . . . the Dean returns from Formosa . . . after all those organic and pharma- cog. exams, we get a rest and nobody studies any more . . . birthday parties in Chem. lab . . . the president gets a heart attack and we all stop to reflect for a moment . . . will the year ever end? . . . nobody ' s going to be a Pharmacist anymore — we now have 40 prospective pharmacologists, 30 future den- tists, 18 physicians, and only 3 druggists in the class and all of them are practicing the Ger- man they learned at NYU over the summer... a parking ticket is given and the class passes the derby, but M.M. refuses pay- ment, although he promises class 2 points on the next exam (and boy, did we need them!) . . . Jim Woods, ancient care- taker, passes away, and so does husband of the sandwich lady . . . we offer to give school a clock for lecture hall, because some profs don ' t know first bell from the second . . . we ' re so weary of finals it hurts, but we all get through . . . Chicago, here we come! Lucy W. Clausen Frank Duckworth Lewis N. Brown Michael M. Clay Fanchon Hart Abraham Taub