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

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To The Class of 19G3 As the years pass following your grad- uation from the College you will turn to these pages and remember with pleasure the courses, the faculty, the activities which you have enjoyed during your College career. With nostalgia, a kindly remembrance, you will weigh again the advice and counsel of your faculty advisers. You will appreciate much more than now the value of the courses of study that you have completed as the knowledge gained from them serves as the tool by which you build your professional career. The humor and pathos which marked your extracurricular life will then appear in their true light as having been most influ- ential in shaping your character. Each time as you read these lines in The Apothekan , you will appreciate in- creasingly that the graduation ceremony is truly a commencement. You completed suc- cessfully the years of academic study and you were certain that you were ready for your life ' s work. You were confident of an interesting and successful future. Yet it is with the receipt of the College diploma that one ' s education truly begins. When the formality of courses, lectures and laboratories is ended, the learning process continues. To learn to meet and best the dif- ficulties of life, to understand and appreciate one ' s place in relation to others, to plan and achieve a constant succession of new goals — that is the practical education that life pro- vides as one grows older. Your future opportunities will appear only as you choose to create them. As you learn to meet the changing demands of life, you will also achieve certain rewards. These goals, or the degree of your achievement in life, should not be measured solely in terms of money, power or prestige. Value egually the satisfaction that you receive from your work, from your opportunities to be of service to others. In many respects these rewards will bear witness to your continuing educa- tion and eventually be of far greater im- portance and value to you. The Officers and Members of the Board of Trustees of our College extend to you and to your fellow classmates sincere con- gratulations and good wishes for health, suc- cess and happiness in the years to come. JOHN N. MCDONNELL President John N. McDonnell President of Columbia University, College of Pharmacy

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Grayson Kirk President of Columbia University TO MEMBERS OF THE CLASS • OF 1963 You approach now the closing phase of your formal preparation for the practice of an ancient and honorable profession. Under the tutelage of skilled and devoted teachers, you have acquired the groundwork for a professional career that can make your con- tribution to society a useful one indeed. Your discipline, concerned with the sci- ence that deals with medicines and drugs, their composition, their nature, their admin- istration and their effects, has been for many centuries important in the field of health and healing. However, with the changing modes and methods of our day, accompanied by new and not always appropriate devices in marketing, there have come some changes in public attitudes. The setting of today ' s pharmacy often bears little resemblance to that of a generation or two ago. Still, the basic professional responsibilities of the practicing pharmacist have not grown less. Indeed, they have become greater in import- ance in the midst of new discoveries, new departures, new methods. Many of you will find yourselves in research of a kind un- imaginable to your predecessors of rela- tively few years ago. Whatever your area of specialization, I trust you will take with you from the College of Pharmacy a sense of the importance of your professional duties and the significance of your relationship to the medical profes- sion and to the public health. Yours must be standards to be guarded jealously. Accept- ing the obligation that is yours as a result of your superior preparation, you accept also the obligation to continue your intellectual motivation, your desire for new learning, and your observation of progress in your field. Doing so you will earn and merit the trust of the community and you will repay richly those who have worked with you dur- ing these years of preparation. To each of you I send this expression of my good wishes. GRAYSON KIRK President

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E. Emerson Leuallen Dean of Columbia University, College of Pharmacy To the Class of 1963: With the awarding of your diploma, Columbia has announced to the world that each of you has met high standards of academic performance, has mastered a breadth of basic knowledge, and has given evidence of the ability to serve the profession and the public. I hope that each of you has also gained a sense of the appreciation the faculty of this college has of the significance of the profession. This is not a legal requirement, nor a consideration in accredita- tion. It is not even something that can be precisely defined so that suddenly, on Tuesday morning, some- one understands it. A very real objective, however, of this College is to help her students see the broad perspective and to encourage them to keep always in view the underlying and basic responsibility of service to health. In the final analysis, each of us makes a personal decision as to the role he plays, and the interpretation. Together, we are the finished production, the functioning profession. Keep in mind that you are in a dynamic profession, responsible for great advances in medical prac- tice, and responsive to the changing needs and demands of society. To the extent that we have offered fundamental understanding and opened avenues for questions, we have been successful in preparing you to see opportunity in change. To each of you I extend personal congratulations and best wishes. E. E. LEUALLEN Dean