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

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IN MEMORIAM JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY 1917-1963

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SINCE OUR FOUNDING hvery twenty years society’s workshop needs cleaning up. Vices of men, of methods, and of ways, creep into the tidiest and best ordered of works, clogging the machinery, driving out the spirit, and setting up the letter instead, and the schools get into deep ruts on the line of march. It is at such junctures that men like the founders of Albany College of Pharmacy put their shoulders to the wheel. The Albany College of Pharmacy was founded in 1881 in Albany, New York as the Department of Pharmacy of Union University. There were only thirteen colleges of Pharmacy in the United States at that time, and only one in New York State. The first faculty consisted of Dr. Jacob S. Mosher, Professor of Botany arid Materia Medica; Dr. William G. Tucker. Professor of Chemistry; and Mr. Gustavus Michaelis, Professor of Pharmacy. The first years of instruction were given in the Albany Medical College, also a department of Union Univer- sity. Various temporary quarters were used until 1909 when all courses were centered in a separate building on Eagle Street just opposite the Medical College. This arrangement was continued until 1927. In that year the present building was erected as the first of a group of buildings to be constructed by the University. The building was enlarged in 1957 by the addition of the Arthur Wardle Diamond Jubilee W ing. Since 1881, there have been 3661 graduates, including 388 women. Most of the graduates have found careers in retail pharmacy, hospital pharmacy or in pharmaceutical laboratories. The first commencement was held in the amphitheater of the Medical College on the evening of February 28, 1882. Degrees were conferred on three candidates. In 1883 there were ten graduates, and classes in recent years have numbered between eighty and a hundred. The class of 1965 is the first to graduate under the new five year program. The additional year is devoted al- most entirely to courses in the Liberal Arts, but it also has proved advantageous in that a better sequence of courses is possible and elective courses are offered so that a student may have special training in the field of his greatest interest.