Brooklyn College of Pharmacy - Pharmakon Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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gl e5AI'l'LCLl'l ed? On one dark, dreary morning in early September an event destined to change the lives of one hundred and eighty future pharmacists occurred. Truly it was a day of darkness and despair but none could imag- ine the horrible and disastrous fate that was to befall them. For this was the day they were to enter the dark, dreary, dismal and horrifying halls of dear old B.C.P. As they walked down the dark halls they came upon a large grotesque statue dedicated to all those demented, perverted and otherwise deformed students statue was an inscription that read: Search thy mind, my fellow student, and thou shall see nothing. Thy fate is to forever spend thy life in this epitomy of horror and to suffer ever increasing abominations which will culminate in complete idiocy. Such shall be thy fate as written in the sands of time. This was their beginning in B.C.P. PHARMACY: a prerequisite for opening up a Neolithic Pharmacy. Here we met the Master Executioner Extraordinaire of the Pharmacy Department, Sal Santelli. PHARMACEUTICAL LATIN: taught by that scholar of ancient Rome, who sailed with Ulysses as an apothecary, Sailor joe Ortolan. CHEMISTRY: a course that entitled us in later years to be prize Boobs and jackasses. At last we had found a teacher that was as puzzled as we were in these new surroundings, for Jack had just entered B.C.P. and had not been indoctrinated yet in the arts and crafts of torturing pharmacy students. PHYSICS: CONSTANTS . . . CONSTANTS . . . constants. After six months half the class opened up liquor stores and the other half joined Alcoholics Anonymous. Cosmo showed his kind, kind heart by giving his annual Christmas Exam that a bottle of Scotch soon dispelled. MATHEMATICS: was a course given by that Master of Wit and Felicity, Mr. Cowzfeld. No math was needed to calculate our grades as we all knew how to count to ten before we took the course. HISTORY: one of the finest courses is the History of Prostitution in Early Greece. A required prerequisite for this course is four years of German. ENGLISH: this course was a prerequisite for the study of the sex life of early English authors. HISTORY The most historic event of the year occurred on December 11 when Dr. Schaefer received the coveted Remington Medal at the Waldorf Astoria .... This was the year that B.C.P. became a first aid station under the direction of Prof. Wilkoc .... This was the year when the youngest of B.C.P.'s organizations was formed, Remington House Plan .... Irwin Brachman and Howie Marshall made the Pharmacy All Star Team. Dr. Kohlberg visited the school to present us with a picture of pharmacy in the State of Israel .... E.I.P.L. CHAMPS, this was the year that B.C.P., led by Irwin Brachman and Company, returned the Goldwag Trophy to B.C.P. Due to his prowess on the basketball court, Irwin received the Most Valuable Plaver Award. Sixty-six that came before it. And at the bottom of the

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EVENTS WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER They say a ship is as good as its Captain and we really had a rocky voyage our first year under President Irv Reiffer .... Who can forget the sight of Herb Marion and Jim Lombardi swinging on the chandeliers after Dear Old Irving's books . . . or Prof. Rhu- mer entering his room after one of his many jaunts to the Men's Room and finding his desk missing . . . the Gold Rush of ,79 was topped only by our mad rush to the Ping Pong Tables . . . one of the main reasons they raised the tuition was because Prof. Ligorio turned the lecture hall into a shooting gallery with the windows as targets . . . or the helplessness in Prof. Sosinsky's eyes when one of his favorite demonstrations failed to work .... The stellar attraction of the Freshman Year was the water gun nght between the seniors and freshmen. No respectable student walked through the halls without his trusty forty-five . . . but when they substituted HCl for water, look out .... P.S.-WE WON. . . . Now we were down to 150 strong, sS,0l0A0l'l'l,0I 2 QCII' Yes! We were back. Why, we didnlt know, but we were back. We were now hardened, seasoned veterans. We realized that they were out to get us and we had to get them first. During the summer, the fraternities had meetings on How to Fight Back and the answer came like a bolt: Mimeographed Notes. Soon each fraternity had brought their artil- lery and the war was on. P.S.-WE LOST. PHARMACY THEORY: here we started on our task to memorize the U.S.P. and N.F., past and present. The main topic was Solutions which came back to haunt us in the Senior Year. This was the year that Sailor joe came out with his guide for pseudo- pharmacists, Ortolan's Quiz Manual, monetary value - 255, a true value - to be determined at a later date. Sixty-seven