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

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Alembic CLASS WILL Wc the classes of 1944 being of sound mind and body (we think) do hereby bequeath (in accordance with some law dictated to us by Dr. Hutchinson) the following: To Evelyn Abare, Foley’s love. To Mary Gaudio, Torn Pitts’ height. To Stew Kaskel. Fratto’s crib notes. To Roger Hess, Horowitz’s way with his wife. To Peg Sassman, Peggy’s book on how to get a husband. To Irwin Engieman, Sid’s room and date book at the “600 Club”. To Betty Hagaman, Trudy’s marks. To Phil Erb, Siro’s right to go out with nurses. To Joe Gazzillo, Emma’s voice. To Georgiana, Edith’s hilarity. To an alumnus, Claudia’s love. To “Gert” Maleski, Ida’s way with men. To Norm Yaguda, Joe Palisi’s ping pong tactics. To Marene Schermcrhorn, Knapp’s personality. To Joe Ferro, “Len” Westerman’s book on “How to Play Winning Ping Pong”. “After the Duration” or “When the Lights Go on Again” This is the year nineteen eleventy-four and it is time for a census. Mr. Dean, tracer of lost Pharmacy students, has been contracted by A.C.P., to trace the members of it’s “favorite” classes of 1944. Dean’s first assignment takes him to Buffalo, N. Y. As the train puffs into the station, Dean’s keen eyes pick out Les Horwitz, eagerly awaiting the arrival of his son Hanley, and Family, home from his Freshman year at Pharmacy College (Albany of Course). On speaking to “Uncle Les” Dean learns that Leo Wcsterman, better known as The Ping-Pong of Hudson Valley, is operating the latest branch of the rapid expanding Westerman Drug Corporation of Claverack. As Dean is boarding the train again, a frantic messenger boy (boys have again replaced girls) rushes up shouting, “have you got it ? did you find it ? . . . where is it ? . . . why Joe Palisi’s sulfate of course. Twenty-eight

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SENIOR CLASS NOTABLES Noisiest....................Louis Fratto Best Scholar................Gertrude DeNure Most Modest.................Leonard Westerman Best Natured................Joe Palisi Everybody’s Friend..........Mary Knapp Class “End” Man.............Tom Pitts Half-Wittiest...............Edith Bactowsky Sleepiest...................Tony Siro Class Politician............Armand Emma Best Business Man...........Lester Horowitz Best Wife...................Peggy Goldberg Most Unlikely Bachelor......Richard Foley Best Temepered ? ? !........Claudia Stafford Biggest Wolf................Desmond Siddon FAVORITES Pastime.....................Dancing, sleeping, eating Sports......................Bowling, wolfing Subjects....................Dispensing Pharmacy, Chemistry Resort......................Halls of A.C.P., Bars Season......................When we’re out of school Twenty-seven

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Pharmakoo Checking the telephone directory in Boston, Mr. Dean finds that several of the 44crs are located in this city. Now, there’s Joe Palisi for instance, on the corner of Eighth and ten-after-four, setting up the post-war Blackstone Pharmacy. It is rumored that he also has night classes in Hematology for nurses. Entering the Statler Hotel he sees a sign advertising the joint convention of Kappa Psi and Lambda Kappa Sigma. The hotel beds here, he notices, are furnished with blankets by DeNure. Trudy did very well with the blanket club of sorority days. . . . She now is a member of the Sorority Grand Council, he hears. Going directly to New York by helicopter, he arrives in time to take in Emma’s opening performance at the “Met”. The numbers most applauded were, “Mortar with the Pestle on Top”, “Oh What a Beautiful Morning”, . . . (well along about ten-thirty anyway), and “I’m going to sit right down and write myself a Thesis” (on asparagus for “Doc” Dwyer). After 6 minutes of applause he graciously turns it over to his accompanist, Ivan Schloviski Kromph, offstage known as Desmond Siddon. Two distracting individuals, seated behind Mr. Dean, break out in a momentary argument whether so-and-so’s shoes are Bostonians, and his suit of British or Scottish Tweed. Yes it’s Pitts and Fratto, the latter calling the former, “You stupid Britisher”. They’re really friends you know. Fratto is back with Whelan’s. lie finds it more profitable there as manager than refilling Narcotic RX’s at Chester. Aside from that, he’s working for his PhD. by experiments on theory of using “Boric Acid to overcome all Incompatabilities”. Pitts informed Mr. Dean that Navy Life was O.K., but he was glad to be back with his father, in business. The only information that could be obtained of Edith and Claudia, was that they were applying their knowledge of Incompatabilities to the kitchen. On the way back to A.C.P., Mr. Dean stopped into “Goldberg-Goldberg and Goldberg Apothecary Shoppe. Peg always said that her Uncle’s store was small, but this was the first Drug Store he had ever seen where the lights go off every time the door opens. . . . “Stand back please”. . . . “Say, what’s going on”. . . . They’re stopping all the traffic here on the corner of State and “Poil”, some guy is being lowered from the trolley wires on a “Steeplejack’s chair”. Say that’s Dick Foley sure enough. Inquisitively, Mr. Dean obtained the following information. . . . Richard Foley, of Snodgrass Publications Ltd., is gathering special data and “shots” for “Life goes on a Trolley Ride”, for a magazine of the same name. Mr. Dean found Ida Rickey working as chief technician in Becble’s Labs. Ida told him that Mary Knapp of Park Ave., (Albany), has only six weeks to go in the employ of the Bell Telephone Company, before they call it even. Snapping on the radio in his room Mr. Dean heard a “Quiz Program” in progress coming from the campus of Union College. . . . The M.C. is none other than Tony Siro. . . . He’s still asking questions. Returning to A.C.P. with his information, Mr. Dean is greeted at the front door by Fred Mathers who informs him that the old institution has survived it’s era of women majority, and that the stronger sex is now in control ...111 Twenty-nine