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

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This is a Crustacean boomed out across the room and the first row strained forward to catch it. Zoology and Physiology finally came and went, and we were all the wiser. With the smell of the formaldehyde permeating our clothing we probed deeply into the beginning of life. Prof. Staud was always nearby to guide our hands and give us a smile and a little laugh as we fumbled our way through a frog ' s in- testine. Two thousand frogs later and many frogs ' legs, we bid her a fond farewell, hoping that she got a good price from the Hankburger for the legs. MARGARET C. STAUD It is amazing how a person so busy with school affairs can find the time to teach, but that ' s what Prof. Clausen does, and, in her own words the seven points for Microbiology will not be given away. A woman dedicated to her chosen field, her comprehensive notes would set a Medical college course to shame, and, given at the rate of six pages an hour, sometimes we wished we were taking a simple course like medicine. Her quick wit and personality quickly won us over, and we will always be grateful for the knowledge of how to get rid of our mothers-in-law by using one of her little friends. In the brief ti me that Prof. Clay could tear himself away from his real love, rats, he showed us that he had many varied interests. Chief among these were quick-freezing of rats, squeezing rat kidneys, and rat. electrocution. We remained calm as he became ecstatic over Par- kinsonism. We said not a word when he ex- tolled upon the virtues of hypertension and only a very few of us are left without permanent scars from his glowing verbal picture of acute nicotine poisoning. But the man was sincere and we respect sincerity no matter on what psychological level. To you Prof. Clay: cyanosis . . . Japanese farewell . . . LUCY W. CLAUSEN

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Everybody knows the rose, of course they do these words and many more come from one man, our own little flower, Prof. Pokorny. A man truly dedicated to his chosen profession, his sincerity and willingness to teach us about his flowers and herbs in Botany and Pharma- cognosy even made those with hay fever sit up and listen. With eyes full of reverence, he would see more than just a dead leaf or a crumpled stem in our petri dish. Yes, even his stories and slides taken in the wilds of Canada, and all over our great land will long be temembered. FRANK J. POKORNY BIOLOGY The Sweetheart of Sherwood Forest was seen often during our sojourn through the plant kingdom. When she could not be there in per- son, we could observe her in technicolor slides uprooting digitalis, trapping cantharides beetles, or helping daddy-o-Youngken over stone walls. It was felt that Francoise was the person that added life to the Pharmacognosy labs. Although she denied it, we all felt that she was the one that put the note in the black mustard saying Kosher for Passover. Her tireless voice added much to our knowledge of botany and pharma- cognosy and to our general fatigue. 14

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Prof. Weingold gave us our first taste of Pharmacy, in fact a great big bite. If the syrup doesn ' t drown you, the solutions will. But he smiled as he conveyed to us the wonder of the allegation, and smiled still more as he opened the door to low, medium and Hie! high alcohol percentages. The ubiquity of smiling Willie gave us the incentive to learn how to conceal a towel in a lab coat during a practical, and how to lick a label while appearing to blow one ' s nose. In addition to being an able professor, the FBI is after him to find out his method for finding fingerprints on bottles where there weren ' t any before. WILLIAM WEINGOLD In teaching us the new, improved Junior dispensing course, Dr. Dashowitz ' s glibness, fine delivery, and excellent sense of humor helped put across many new and complex ideas to the sea of blank faces that so often confronted him. Four hours weekly, the crude techniques carried over from Tech lab were polished and buffed to a high sheen. In addition to dispensing, he showed us his versatility and ability to fill in at all positions when he unraveled Tales of Emulsions and Colloid theory while teaching the first half of our Physical Pharmacy course, better known as Science Fiction II. BARRY H DASHOWITZ Though the dean was kept busy -most of the time outside of school, he did manage to meet with our class and display to us his large knowledge of pharmacy. No school could ask for nor boast of a finer dean, and we as students are most sorry to leave his domain. He has done much to spread the good name of Columbia Pharmacy throughout the land and his untiring efforts in soliciting funds for the new building have made us proud of him. We will always remember the snow storm when he called off classes because he couldn ' t make it in from Long Island. 16 E. EMERSON LEUALLEN