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

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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

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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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To the Class of 1963: To be sure, your graduation will represent a profound change in your existence. A number of you will continue with advanced studies, still engrossed in an academic life. Others will become in- volved as community pharmacists in several capacities, in a much more demanding environment. You will all be devoting time and effort to promoting your best self-interests, on an entirely different plane than that as an undergraduate. All of you will be identified as pharmacists; furthermore, the impress of this college will remain with you. I hope that all of you will remember always that you, as pharmacists, have a major responsibility — namely, to serve as professional men and women in the interests of the public ' s health, and making your livelihood as a result of this service. It is my opinion that denigration of the profession of phar- macy has come about because of the reverse view — that the pharmacist is primarily interested in the material aspects associated with his activities, and incidentally serving the health needs of the public, his clients. I realize that this has the touch of the ivory tower. I am fully aware of the assault by various agencies, commercial and otherwise, on pharmacy as a profession. But we have no greater enemies than ourselves, if we continue to persist in deprecating and belittling our activities. If you lack pride in what you are doing, and if you, in your attitudes and conversation, demean your professional status, you can expect no better treatment from anyone else. I adjure you, as graduates of this college, to go out and do battle with these forces that would destroy, not the least of which is your own reaction to pharmacy. May the work of your hands be blessed. SAMUEL S. LIBERMAN Samuel S. Liberman Associate Dean of Columbia University. College of Pharmacy