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

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OPERATIVE LAB: here we learned the four essentials of an erudite pharmacist: a clean lab coat, a shiny spatula, a clean towel and a forever sparkling sponge. We soon discovered it was easier to make twice as much of one thing than half as much of two things. PHARM MATH: Alternate Seats . . . Alternate Rows. Those words still ring clear. This quiz hour was called The Zero Hour in respect to our grades. QUAL AND QUANT: here was an experience in Hell with the Devil himself, Dr. Mills, as master. His shouts and tantrums drove us all to the very brink of disaster. The sole recipient of this course was the Cancer Fund. Chem was bad, but the stock room was worse, and Ellis didnlt help it any. BIOLOGY: the two hour lecture by Dr. Cheney was a better cure for insomnia than Nembutal. A 10 minute break certainly would have been appre- ciated between the hours. Who was interested in the sex life of the tsetse fly? We had enough trouble with our own. To pass the lab course one had to be an artist or have last year's plates. LITERATURE: Dr. Kinsey couldnt have taught this course better than that Master of Sexual Psychology, Chet Riess. Here we learned the wonders of Coleridge and his Milk of Paradisef, Our students learned their lessons from Coleridge and within a week the lunchroom was turned into an Opium Den. HISTORY This was the year that Mr. Sherry and Mr. Leo Greenberg joined the faculty .... The Pharmacology Lab with Dr. Ingalls was instituted .... Dr. Lascoff gave an inspiring speech on the State Board of Pharmacy at the Thanksgiving A.Ph.A. meeting .... Nicholas Gesoalde was honored by the New York State Pharmaceutical Society and Dr. Schaefer was the Toastmaster .... The Alumni Association saluted Dr. Morgan for his 50 years of devoted service to the College .... jim Lombardi gave the school its first Field Day, in which our class ran off with all the honors. This affair was such a great success that it became an annual school affair .... The Alumni Association held their Monte Carlo Night where we all wined, dined and gambled .... A debate was held on Substitution and Duplication with Dean Schaefer as moderator .... Our class captured the Basketball Intramurals .... EVENTS Things really started to hum because Big Jim took over .... This led to the class meet- ings where the riot squad was needed .... A class secret police was organized to keep law and order during lecture hours . . . every lec- turer feared us, bar none . . . instead of the water gun fights we now had H28 tights .... This was the year our class attempted to solve the Qual Unknowns using a Spectroscope .... the contributions were high, but the results were low . . . by Finals we realized the Folly of our activities . . . that's right we were sc . . . d . . . the results could be seen by the crestfallen faces observed after the exams . . . the death toll was high, but some of us were left to continue . . . the fortunate ones flunked out as we later realized. Sixty-eight

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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

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unior ear We had now advanced to a year of mystery and adventure which delved in such new courses as Pharmacog, Eco, Organic, Dispensing, Physiology and Microbio. We entered these courses hungry as wolves for knowledge and came out like lambs. It was the old story again-no knowledge-just MEMORIZATION . . . MEMORIZATION . . . MEMORIZATION. PHARMACY THEORY: a year of Tinctures, Fluidextracts and Extracts. Doc', Fonda garbled his way through another year of Standards, Latin Titles and Notes. Here we foolishly studied our notes, as the day of the FORM NUMBER had not yet come. DISPENSING PHARMACY: this turned out to be a course in History of Phar- macy, as the prescriptions we filled predated the Ebers Papyrus. No prescription l could preserve its dignity without at least one incompatability. Here we discovered, by accu- rate count, that Mayers Reagent is more popular than Terramycin. Here we made suppositories that no respectable person would .... PHARMACEUTICAL ECONOMICS: have you ever wondered the proper and correct manner 1 Here we learned all the ambiguities and ramifications Pharmaceutical Law under Prof. Blank. I hope more clients visit his office than attended his lectures-there wasn't even enough to hold a Mignon. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY: a course dealing with the study of linoleum, paints, gaso- line and in rare instances pharmaceuticals. Daddy'l Dalman said we boys would never learn, and he was right-we never did learn any Chemistry. PHYSIOLOGY: here we learned that bones doesn't always refer to dice. We also saw an example of what happens to students that argue with teachers-they become anatomy specimens. Maybe we didn't learn much Physiology under Augie Wilkoc, but we heard so many fascinating stories that we all enjoyed, PHARMACOGNOSY: Diagnostic elements . . . Quiz hours . . . Identifications-Boy! Was this course tough! To Prof. Milana's lecture you either had a tape recorder or brushed up on your shorthand. If he talked any faster it would be double talk. And those diagrams on the exams-a combination of a Botany major and an accomplished artist's talents would have been appreciated. MICROBIOLOGY: this course was definitely pathogenic to our well being. At least most of us got sick of it. Even Leprosy has some advantages over this school. At least you retain your sanity with Leprosy. But Leo Greenberg was a nice guy even if he is a teacher. We don't hate all teachers . . . just some. HISTORY This was the year that Edward Neimeth was honored by a Testimonial Dinner . . . the Biology Society was formed by Dr. Ingalls . . . Henny Youngman made the annual Pharma Hop a success . . . Mr. William Neergrad spoke on the State Board of Pharmacy at the APHA,s annual Thanksgiving Meeting . . . Dr. Hugo Muldoon received the Remington Sixty-nine