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

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I am happy indeed to respond to the request of the editor-in-chief for a brief mes- sage to the readers of APOTHEKAN. You prepare now to go out as potential leaders in the practice of a profession essential to all of us. Yours is a code in which integrity and sense of responsibility are of utmost im- portance for you share in the science of healing. Our physical welfare, often our lives, may depend upon the care and skill with which you perform your duties. Many of you will go on to advanced studies and research in this university or in others. From your work there may result in the future new methods, new discoveries to advance the cause of pharmaceutical education. It is my hope that you will consider your Commencement as literally that — as essentially the beginning of your education, rather than the ending of it. Today ' s world is one which demands the truly educated man for leadership. He is the man who, while a specialist, possesses the breadth of knowledge which enables him to relate his professional skills to the community in a re- sponsible and effective manner. New opportunities in industry, in public service, in education, in many other areas, are open to you today to a degree undreamed of by the pharmacist of fifty or even twenty-five years ago. These opportunities will not come, however, to the individual who takes the easy way. They will be gained only by him who is willing to devote himself to painstaking study, to excellence in scholarship, to the task of relating his professional skills to other activities and areas in our complex world. You have enjoyed at the College of Pharmacy the facilities of a superior school and to an increasing degree the broad resources of an important university. Your work has been done in a great urban center, with frequent opportunity for contact with outstanding representatives of your own profession and of allied professions. You enter now a phase of your life which I hope will find you never satisfied, but striving always to enrich your store of knowledge and that of your profession. Columbia University is proud of its affiliation with the College of Phar- macy; proud as well of the distinguished names in pharmaceutical education which are written into the history of the School. I wish you well as you leave your classrooms to carry on the work for which your training has been so well begun. GRAYSON KIRK President 10

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Dedication

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To the Class of 1957 Congratulations to each and every one of you. You have reached an important goal, a goal that seemed far, far away four years ago, and which suddenly loomed straight ahead out of the busy weeks of finals. The immediate and tangible evidence of your accomplishment is the diploma announcing that you have received your degree. And received it from a renowned institution of learning. Your fellow alumni are spread throughout the nation and the world in places of eminence and dignity. That your activities will further enhance her prestige we are confident. More important than the degree itself, however, is the body of training, the ex- periences, and the outlooks that it represents. Our program has been successful to just the extent that it has encouraged in you the three attributes of integrity, inquisitiveness, and open-mindedness. Surely there are other characteristics that we hope you have. But they are all a part of, or related to, these three. Perhaps you will recall that the Oath of Maimonides words it thus: Grant me strength, time and opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend its domain. To each of you I extend best wishes for a satisfying and rewarding career in your chosen field. Your success is ours and we will be intensely interested in your progress. Our new home on the campus will provide improved facilities and greater opportunity for services to our graduates and I hope you will take full advantage of them. Be- come active in the alumni association so that your talents and your efforts can be of benefit to your fellow pharmacists and your college. Warmly and sincerely, E. E. LEUALLEN 11