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

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TOXICOLOGY AND POSOLOGY: Strychnine was the only antidote for this course. Here we were taught the proper and safe way to commit suicide. However, we decided to take the hard way out-we stayed alive. But, to those that died all I can say is-What Cowards. PHARMACOLOGY: This course is affectionately called The Animal Lab. It was a challenge for the noble of heart to tangle with the hardy rats, guinea pigs and mice. It was this course where we were taught the ancient art of pithing. Many a senior's blood was spilled at tables 5 and 6. HISTORY The A.Ph.A. held their first students convention . . . Stempel and Sosinsky became Assistant Professors . . . Prof. Ruhmer was admitted to Who's Who in American Education . . . Dr. George Archambault spoke on Hospital Pharmacy at a Pharmacy Club Meeting . . . Seniors are attended by Hoffman LaRoche . . . Mr. Ed. Neimeth predicts a fine future for Pharmacy at the annual A.Ph.A. Thanksgiving Meeting , . . Squibb's Dr. Cyr speaking on Dose Forms . . . Huge faculty turnout and Stuffed Dogs make the Pharma Hop a gala affair . . . Prof. Blank speaks on the draft status of students . . . Dr. Ingalls speaks on Tropical Medicine . . , the seniors have a Gypsy Good Time at Lilly . . . Dr. Ligorio is honored at his 25th anniversary of service to the school. EVENTS WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER The year started out with a bang . . . at the class elections Herb Marion kept winning and the elections kept being reheld until Herby finally lost . . . we finally ended up with two good men . . .john Kavis as Student Council President and Fire and Brimstoneu Gottbaum as President . . . The Prom Committee is trying to get the class to hold a decent prom . . . jim Lombardi and his Banshee Wail . . . The egg throwing . . . kicking doors down . . . Ed Smith proctoring in lab . . . every one learned to hate Ed . . . and those Ghostly Footprints that astounded Mr. Peepers . . . Wally Steinberg making the school paper competition for the Hobo News . . . Gene Tunick draining the Sinking Fund for extra cash for this yearbook. We'd like to close our history with this short poem. Leff hope and pray, Tbir book doenf! mme out till afler May, For if it fewer om' before, I'll be in yrbrmlf0rf0m'yefz1'r more. Seventy-one

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Medal from Dean Hugo Schaefer . . . the Junior Class, under the direction of C. James Lombardi jr., gave an unprecedented birthday party for Dr. Morgan . . . 74 seniors lead by Prof. Blank held their annual raid on Lilly . . . the Intra-Fraternal Council was revived . . . though not given any school support the Junior Class held the Pharmacy Award Invitation Ball Junior Prom, under the direction of Mr. Lombardi. Present at this gala affair were Fran Warren, Alan Dale, Eddie Fisher and Geraldine Fitzgerald . . . B.C.P. Hoopsters dropped two games in Philly and lost any chance of winning E.I.P.L. Championship . . . the Junior Class and DST ran off with all honors on Field Day at the Hempstead State Park .... The Alumni Association institutes the Public Health Forum with Dr. Selman Waksman leading a distinguished group of speakers . . . Mr. Robert Greenberg joins the faculty as an aide for Prof. Reiss. EVENTS WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER Jim made this a year to remember . . . who can forget the way the school let him get out on the limb on the dance and then tried to cut the limb down . . . or the way the class rallied behind jim and made the affair a success . . . or the Cabinet Meetings that were a daily event . . . who can forget the Tincture Exam that Fonda gave us the first quarter . . . or the Dispensing Exam tha our friend Eddie Stempel made up . . . Marv Wasserman starting a fire in Chem Lab . . . or Ralph Pasetsky trying to find out if Ether burns . . . It was an exciting year that ended in a crash: FINALS. enior ear We finally made it. This would be the last year Qwe hopedj. Three down and one to go. But what a year: Alstodt, Milana and Fonda. Who would make it. Our only comfort was they can't fail us all-and there was so many of us. PHARMACY THEORY: Here we learned how to pass Pharmacy: never study your notes, old exams never lie and its easier to memorize none of these than wade through 5,000 assorted pages of notes. But Prof. Fonda caught us at our game and so the era of the Fill-In Exam started and our chances of passing ended. BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: We thought we were going to be pharmacists, Prof. Jeffries must have thought we were accountants or lawyers. His midyear exam was harder to pass than a kidney stone. My only consolation is that I'll never forget what Prepaid Insurance is. PHARM CHEM: Here we learned what we really were: Boobs, Iackasses, Dummys and other Alstodian Terms of Endearment. To occupy our spare time he gave us Boob Reports fa typical one would be to summarize Chemical Abstracts in NLT 10300 pages and NMT 10300-000000 pagesj-the reports, of course, got larger as the year went on. It was the hard way, but we did learn something. BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY: taught by B.C.P.'s tight lipped, dry-voiced answer to Herb Shriner: Professor Sargent. Even a Dexadrine Spansule couldn't keep you up during one of his lectures. MATERIA MEDICA: the chances of getting called on here were about the same as in Russian Roulette but the results were twice as deadly. The course consisted of learn- ing the action and uses of 10,000 popular, unpopular and seldom used drugs. The material was hard enough to learn but a linguist was needed to understand the meanings of the question: the right answer, wrong answer, half right, twice wrong .... Seventy

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