Columbia University College of Pharmacy - Apothekan Yearbook (New York, NY)

Page 13 text:

not surprising that the Professor would be called upon to give a repeat performance in Manufacturing Pharmacy. Prof. Amsterdam was his Man Friday for both courses. To what avail is the foregoing if we lacked the knowledge presented by Prof. Fred D. Lascoff (D for Drugtopics) ? Economics was a course in building funneled shape entrances to your store, a safari to the Van Camps Truss and Support works to meet Miss Brown and the oppor- tunity to take inventory at the Museum. The usual remuneration for the latter was five bucks, a transfer to the crosstown bus, a ham sandwich and perhaps an A in the course. An easier way of making a dollar was to attend the De Vilbiss lecture. We ' ll just go over these preparations briefly: 90 minutes Iter we were still listening to Dr. Brown explain how powder papers should be folded, European Method. This was Dispensing Pharmacy. What good is all this preparation if we couldn ' t read an Rx in Latin? Enter Smilin ' Joe Miale. His smile was a lot easier to take than the conjugation of spiritus. Aside from being routed from a good ping pong game to attend his classes, we had no objections to spending 50 minutes with him. Baxter, will you read Rx Xo. 5001 and tell us how you would make it. Right, this was Dispensing Pharmacy IE a repetition of Dispensing Pharmacy I, sans Mr. Miale. You ' ve got to be able to shake them right out of your sleeve. ' ' said Prof. Wimmer in his Survey course. Here is where we learned that a pill must be elegant besides being round and a pain in the neck to make. We got to know Prof. Wimmer well in our last year for he also taught us Jurisprudence, Theoretical Pharmacy and Miscellaneous. The latter group included the odds and ends all good Pharmacists should know plus more for good measure. Dr. ' Wimmer was patient and understand- ing. If only he were making up the State Board exams. Prof. H. J. Amsterdam Prul. F. D. Lascoff Prof. H. M. Carlo

Page 12 text:

PL armac t Curl P. Wimmer, Ph.G Phar.D.. A.M., Ph.M. Chairman Moses with one touch of his wand made water issue forth from a rock. Prof. Wimmer with the turn of a page of his notebook (which was as ancient as the subject) spewed forth the subject of Pharmacy Orientation. It was a fitting introduction to a time-honored profession. We were carried back some few thousand years on the magic carpet of history. We were the sorcerer ' s appren- tices being made conscious of the vast tradition behind us. Yes, we dreamed of the Pyramids and the Rosetta Stone and even pictured ourselves discovering the secret of turning base metals into gold, only to be rudely awakened the following hour by Prof. Amsterdam. Sir Boss taught Pharmaceutical Arithmetic. It was his joy to point out that we were all potential murderers for placing the decimal point in the wrong place when calculating the dose of strychnine or some equally potent medicine. We had hour quizzes, wherein we were given ten problems (which were masterpieces of phraseology) and told to solve them by the Amsterdam method. All right, wise guys, see if you can figure these problems out. We were to see more of Prof. Amsterdam. That tall dark gentleman, who wore clothes with neat dispatch and hair a la Kreml, was Prof. Carter, our instructor in Pharmacy. He finally managed to teach us how to make Emplastrum Plumbi Oleatis. but we learned for ourselves how to make triple quantity preparations. After enlightening us on the ways of making U.S. P. and N.F. formulas, it was Prof. C. P. Wimmer Dr. L. N. Brown Mr. I. P. Miale if y w ' i ' i l -■ Stotfirt ' '

Page 14 text:

■I a Lena Charles W. Ballard. Ph.Ch Phar.D.. A M.. Ph.D. Chairman Little did Adam and Eve realize when they ran for cover under the protection of two palm leaves (two each, there was no rationing then) , just what they were start- ing. . . . And according to Mr. Pokorny, the only rea- son Adam ran after her, was to find out the erenus of the aforementioned leaves. . . . But whichever theory you may choose to believe, it was in our Sophomore year that Botany came to mean more to us than the name of a well known woolen house, and it was here that we were first initiated to a system that has by now become famous, mi- croscopy without the use of a microscope. ... It was here too that the terms Bryophyte, Pteridophyte and Thallophyte, began to mean something to us, and as for Bush 44, well that belonged to a class by itself. . . . They must have thought that by now we were old enough to know . . . and so we exchanged the bees and the trees and the flowers for something more substan- tial, in the guise of Dr. Halsey. . . . We ' ll never forget the expression on our faces when he uttered his first Damn and by the second or third we started to realize that those stories weren ' t all as far-fetched as they seemed. . . . We can still remember the time we walked into his office and found a jar that to us looked like an advertisement for a well known spaghetti house, and soon after found out that we had just seen the latest thing in tape-worms. It was in our third year we learned all sorts of things from Dr. Redden. . . . Useful things like the temperature of Yellowstone Park in the winter, the Tornado of ' 36 or was it ' 37, fellows??? But in all seri- ousness we owe a vote of thanks to him for making what would have otherwise been a cut and dried thing, an hour or two of pleasure. . . . And we thank our lucky stars that he was such an understanding guy. Pro . H. Tuub. Prof. F. Pokoril) Dr. II. Blumberg, Prof. F. Hart