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

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ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF JOCK ' PETE ' 17 GEORGE and HORACE '

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SOL A. HERZOG NATHAN J. HELLERBACH MARTIN LEVIN DAVID BUCHSBAUM 16 RICHARD D. HEFFNER

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FRES This was the day of all days, the day I became a freshman at Columbia Uni- versity College of Pharmacy. Luck was really with me. Evidently, I had triumphed on the Pharmacy Aptitude — lucky it wasn ' t Attitude Test. Professor Liberman must have thoroughly enjoyed my auto- biography and must have been impressed with my great wealth of literary knowl- edge. It was nearly 9 when I was pushed off the train at 66th Street; they weren ' t quite as fast to push me up the steps. I then tried to run across campus but was delayed when my briefcase became en- tangled with an Oldsmobile in Gross- man ' s Used Car Lot . I entered the build- ing and gaily tripped up the steps to Room 50 where Mr. Heffner was ready to em- bark on the fitst of his lectures that were to inform us of those men whose ideas helped to form the philosophy of the times. This day was different from those that followed because everyone was awake and the seats in front were filled. Mr. Heffner ' s lectures were constantly infor- mative, but were not really enlightening until Bob Shulman made the fastest exit from the time of Saint Thomas Aquinas to this time. After trying the bookstore for several days I finally went to Barnes and Noble and tried to obtain the calculus text — it must have been put of print and if any- one has a copy of Romping Through Cal- culus I would like to have it to com- plete my library. Now, if the differential of 4X2 is 8X, then how the h— is 2 x 2 = 4. Well, now being thoroughly con- fused in arithmetic, we met, by definition, Mr. Buchsbaum, geometrical analyst and calculator. Mr. Levin tried to make English an interesting course but had some very keen competition from the fellows who were 18