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

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To the graduating class of 1952, may I extend sincere congratulations on the successful completion of your preliminary education in the profession of pharmacy. The word “preliminary” is used advisedly since four years of college has given you but a brief survey of pharmacy as it was, as it is now', and as we hope it will be in the future. What this future will be depends to a large extent on the post graduate efforts exerted by you collectively and individually. As the profession is elevated or lowered in public esteem, your own individual professional stature is correspondingly affected. By your personal actions and efforts you may be able to raise yourself above the general level or fall below' it—but to a large degree you will be judged on the basis of public and private opinion of the profession as a whole. And only too often this opinion is created by the acts of the unethical, undignified few instead of the splendid accomplishments of the many. The creative instinct and patient effort of the pharmaceutical researcher, the productive skill of the most talented in the manufacturing and distributing of ethical—and sometimes almost miraculous— drugs, and the fine professional attitude displayed by the great majority of those engaged in retail pharmacy may not always be sufficient to counterbalance the unfavorable impressions created by a minority who persist in displaying to a critical public the lowest standards in ethics, professional integrity and morality, an even in personal arid administrative cleanliness. Your post graduate efforts can be so directed by your continued professional advancement, by your participation in the affairs of your community and by your own high individual standard of justice and fair play, that both you and your profession can, with the passing years, be justly proud that on the day of Com- mencement, June 5, 1952 you w'ere admitted to the profession to which you con- tributed so much. FRANCIS J. O’BRIEN Dean

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 Dr. Francis J. O'Brien, Dean Six

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OFFICERS OF THE BOARD Arthur S. Wardle, Ph.G., LL.D. President Edgar A. Vander Veer, Ph.B., M.D. First Vice-President Kenneth S. Griswold, Ph.G. Second Vice-President Paul C. Vander Mel T reasurer Arvie Eldrf.d, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. Assistant Treasurer William W. Gibson, Ph.G., A.B., LL.B. Secretary BOARD OF TRUSTEES IIon. William T. Byrne, LL.B. IIon. Erastus Corning, 2nd, A.B. Carter Davidson, Ph.D., LL.D. Arvie Eldrf.d, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. Frank A. Emma, Ph.G. William W. Gibson, Ph.G., A.B., LL.B. Kenneth S. Griswold, Ph.G. Arthur D. Hf.cox Jacob L. Lochner, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.S Ellis H. Robison, A.B. Frank J. Smith. Jr., Ph.G. Maurice L. Tainter, M.D. Paul C. Vander Mel Edgar A. Vander Vf.er, Ph.B., M.D. Harry J. Van Vlecic, Ph.G. Arthur S. Wardle, Ph.G. Deceased.