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

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fyacuUAf, Pharmacy DR. ELLIOTT E. LEUALLEN PROF. HORACE M. CARTER DR. LEWIS N. BROWN MR. LEONARD T. CHAVKIN PHILIP BLANK PUa i,macolo4f4f, DEAN CHARLES W. BALLARD DR. H. RANDOLPH HALSEY PROF. FANCHON HART PROF. FRANK J. POKORNY DR. AUGUST A. DiSOMMA PROF. SAMUEL S. LIBERMAK PROF. ABRAHAM TAUB DR. IRENE BAILEY Jlib ial AlU DR. JOHN DeGROOT DR. R. H. LUTH1X FRED SUPXICK

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PUaA ma C4f, Left to right — Mr. Leonard T. Chavkin, Dr. Lewis X. Brazen. Prof. Horace M. Carter, Dr. Elliott E. Eeuallen. OUR ENCOUNTER with the Pharmacy department was by no means a brief one. In fact it lasted four years. Orientation started this procession. Here we met Dr. Wimmer, who we can still recall reiterating, Pharmacy is both a. science and an art. ' ' His encouraging words were, When you become pharmacists, walk into a store, step onto a scale, and tell the proprietor to match the weight in gold, because that is what you are worth. Xow we are on the threshold of proving that statement. Our first class in laboratory pharmacy was with Dr. Brown. We soon discovered that the U. S. P. was not the United States Pastime, while Pharmaceutical Calculations was commonly referred to as just one big problem. When we were sophomores, we were taught the motto of the dispens- ing laboratory, Accuracy, Neatness and Dispatch. Swallowing pills was easy, but making them was a different story. The blisters on our hands were evidence of this. Pharmaceutical Latin was our second encounter with Dr. Brown, better known to us as Dr. Fuscus. It was here that we were surprised to learn that Primus Yirginiana meant wild cherry and not virgin prunes. The third year was by far the most interesting. Mr. Kravitz, who taught us Pharmaceutical Economics, didn ' t assign us a text. At that point we proceeded to write our own. That was one time that paregoric 14