Albany College of Pharmacy - Alembic Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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DR. T. W. JENKINS, K Instructor of Microscopy. Obtained his preliminary education at the School of the Lackawanna at Scranton, Pa., and spent eight years in the drug business with Morgan Co., at Scranton. Pa.; Entered the Albany College of Medicine in 1890, graduating in 1893; Was interne at the Albany Hospital for one year; Took post-graduate courses at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Started practice in Albany after completion of post-graduate studies and has continued the practice of medicine continu- ally since then; Was for seventeen years a surgeon on the the Albany Hospital Dispensary staff and teaching in some capacity, principally microscopy, in the Albany Medical College ever since graduation; Inaugu- rated the course of microscopy at the College of Pharmacy and continued teaching there for several years, taking up the work again in 1916; The year 1910 was spent in Europe in studies at the Middlesex College Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital in London, Eng., at Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, and in Munich (Bavaria),Germany, studying physiological chem- istry, embryology, parasitology, inoculation therapeutics, the preperalion of vaccines, etc. CLARENCE EDWARD OSTRANDER, K Born February 9, 1890, in Slingerlands, X. Y.; Entered the Albany College of Pharmacy; Graduated in the Class of 191 r; 1912-13 took a special course in synthetic chemistry at the State Normal College (now' the Slate College for Teachers) under the direction of Prof. Bronson. RENA HENAULT Graduated from High School at Tupper Lake, N. Y., in 1908; Took post- graduate course of one year; College of Pharmacy (Albany), graduated in 1913; Assistant to Mr. Hutman in Pharmaceutical Laboratory; Employed by State Board of Health, Division of Laboratories and Research as Laboratory Assistant in Bacteriology. CLARENCE EDMUND MULLENS, M.D., K Lecturer in Physiology. WARREN LANSING BRADT, Pn.G. Secretary State Board of Pharmacy. Lecturer on Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence. GUSTAVUS MICHAELIS, Ph.G. Emeritus Professor of Pharmacy. 15

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 Examining mh Eimtning The various professions and other occupations are rapidly coming under state control. Not many years ago in this state any person might keep a drug-store, there was no licensing of pharmacists, and attendance upon colleges of pharmacy was entirely volitional, for their diplomas con- ferred no special privileges and were not essential to the securing of a license to practice. But all this is changed and the would-be pharmacist nowadays must pass not only such preliminary examinations as are neces- sary to obtain his entrance certificate, and the various examinations of the school as well, but also a state board examination in order to obtain the license which permits him to do business as a pharmacist. And so it is all along the line, from the ash gatherer and tlie, milkman to the trained nurse, druggist and doctor, and finally to the undertaker who disposes of us after all examinations, inspections and licensings are passed, all these ministers to our various wants and daily necessities are controlled by that impersonal fiction that we call the state. And this supervision of the people by the people, and, presumably, for the people’s good, has necessitated the creation of bureaus, boards and departments innumerable, with a vast horde of employees of many grades and varying dignities, the whole making up a great bureaucracy, patterned after those existing in many foreign coun- tries, but unknown in this land of the free until a comparatively recent date. Now to many people, and indeed to most people at first sight, it seems that al! this state supervision must be of advantage to the public, and that it marks a distinct advance in our civil affairs. The regulation of trades and professions, we are told, is in the public interest, and fixation, rigid classification and standardization of the different occupations results in increased efficiency and greater economy in operation. No doubt there is some truth in this, hut, in the institution of reform measures, we are prone to go to extremes, and the worth of our methods should be judged by their results, and our mistakes corrected in the light of experience. Tf mistaken methods are allowed to harden into a rigid formalism the gravest abuses may result. Intelligent criticism, and proper protest against real evils and threatening dangers in our governmental policies, are always in order and are often effectual. 17 l