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

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It HO Fl PHI RHO PI PHI: First row. Boyd Goodfriend. Paul Rothstein, AI Stitch, Mel Silverman, Myron Miller. Marv Abrams. Second row. Richard Schwartz, Bill Spage, Warren Wolfe, Fred Woogin, Bob Havranek, Charles Sorkin, Ted Kowitt. Third row. Don Kissil, Bill Messinger, Dick Wachs, Shelly Gordon, Bill Eisenman, Don Meyeroff, Shelly Kleinberg. Ira Kandell, Al Goldstein, Fred Hashinsky, Marty Eichman, Ed Elkowitz. Fourth row: Joe Hirt, Walt Stullman, Stan Gratt, Don Rosenberg, Gil Goetz, Ed Cohen, Howie Hendier, Jack Cohen, Bob Fishmaji, Lee Jozwiak, Hal Stern. The Rho Pi Phi Fraternity was established at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston in 1919. Two years later, December 26, 1921, a third chapter was organized. This chapter was Gamma Chapter at Columbia College of Pharmacy. Rho Pi Phi is a member of the Professional Inter- Fraternity Conference organized to encourage high scholarship, professional research, advancement of professional ethics, and the promotion of a spirit of comity among the professional fraternities. In the field of research, Rho Pi Phi just recently donated .315,000 to aid in the fight against leukemia. To further our encouragement of research Rho Pi Phi foundation was established to spearhead the work. Here at Columbia, Rho Pi Phi offers an award of S100 annually, for excel- lence in courses of the Pharmacy Department. Rhi Pi Phi is a growing organization, just as the Pharmaceutical Profession is still growing. We 29 are now represented in sixteen Grade ' A ' colleges throughout the United States and Canada and six- teen alumni clubs represent the pharmaceutical pro- fession in the two countries. During the past years we have had able leader- ship from within our chapter and helpful guidance from our New York Alumni Club. In the past four years, our chapter has had many memorable affairs held at such places as the Waldorf-Astoria and the Hotel Statler and the Glen Island Casino. We can only say that our stay at CUCP was made more pleasurable by belonging to Ropes . The officers who have guided Gamma Chapter with excellent capability during ' 54 - ' 55 are: Fred Woogin: Chancellor; Bob Havranek: Vice-Chancel- lor: Warren Wolfe: Recording Scribe: Charles Sor- kin: Guardian Exchequer; Ted Kowitt: Corre- sponding Scribe.

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KAPPA P5I KAPPA PSI: First Row: Robert Marraro: Secretary, James Scheandia: Regent, James Simpkins: Vice-Regent, Robert Luckey : Treasurer. Second Row. Professor Michael Clay, William Tillman, Sandro Walsh: Chaplain, Gerry O ' Conner: Historian, Louis Guarnaschelli. On December 15, 1879 Kappa Psi Pharmaceuti- cal Fraternity was founded at the Medical College of Virginia. This was the first Greek letter society to be established in the colleges of pharmacy in this country. Nine years later, in 1888, Gamma Chapter, Kappa Psi ' s unit in Columbia University College of Pharmacy, was organized. Kappa Psi is a strictly pharmaceutical fraternity which limits its chapters to college of pharmacy holding membership in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The Fraternity colors are scarlet and cadet gray. The flower is the red car- nation and the badge is a diamond displaying a harlequin mask. The society was formed to cement the friendships of college days. Its objectives are to unite in fraternal bonds persons of high moral char- acter; the building of college and professional as- sociations into a sturdy foundation for campus, so- 28 cial, and professional life; and the promotion of scholarship. In pursuing the first two objectives, two types of chapters have been formed, viz., Collegiate, fifty- two of which are now flourishing throughout the United States, and Graduate, presently numbering thirty-six. The third objective is given practical ex- pression in CUCP by the Kappa Psi Medal. This is Gamma Chapter ' s annual award to that member of the student body attaining the highest scholastic standing throughout his or her four years of study. Kappa Psi ' s aims are to provide fellowship and mutual aid for its members, and to live up to the principles of maintaining and promoting the ethics and standards of the profession of Pharmacy. We of Gamma Chapter wish all the graduates of 1955 the best of luck in their new endeavors in Pharmacy.

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SIGMA TAD EFSILON SIGMA TAU EPSILON: First Row: Sandy Eidinger, Arthur Rich, Professor Samuel S. Liberman, Lawrence Hivkin, (Chancellor), Don Royal, Al Milder. Second RowSred Cohen, Mel Cohen, Monte Weinstein, Louis Cousins, Bill Salm, Julius Lam pert, L. Harlan Stone, Bert Perlmutter, Arnold Pugatsky, Joel Padlipsky, Donald Rappaport, Lee Kaplan, Jack Yarin. Sincerity Through Entity . Three simple words, but nevertheless, they express the very concept under which Sigma Tau Epsilon was founded more than 30 years ago. Its purpose was to create a closer bond of friendship amongst its members, and to further the high ideals which they held in common. A non-sectarian association of professional men, Sigma Tau Epsilon has maintained the policy of dispensing with the ordeal of initiations. The Gam- ma Chapter was reformed in 1943, due to inactiva- tion caused by World War II. The formation of new policies earned for the group the title of The Old Fraternity With The New Ideas . Down came the religious barriers, and ended were the long, drawn-out pledge periods, ordeal initiations and extravagant membership dues. The informal opera- 30 tion of the organization was recognized by the friends of S.T.E., who continually attended its various functions. The remarkable rise of S.T.E. to a position of eminence at the College of Pharmacy bears testi- mony to the energy expended by the membership. Last year Sigma Tau Epsilon initiated the presenta- tion of the Annual Pharmacy Achievement Award. The first recipient of this award was our beloved Professor Samuel S. Liberman. The members of S.T.E. who are in the present graduating class have all helped to rebuild the Gamma Chapter to its present position in the College. S.T.E. will continue striving to foster the ideals of fraternalism. The continued effectiveness of Sigma Tau Epsilon will depend on the maintenance of Entity , for, only by cementing a close relation- ship will that strong bond remain a tie forever.