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

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AN OPEN LETTER OF CONGRATULATIONS TO THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND TO OUR VERY DEAR FRIEND, PROFESSOR ABRAHAM TAUB Dear Abe: When we left the Hotel Statler-Hilton last night after attending the Annual Alumni Award Dinner-Dance, at which over six hundred of us came to pay tribute to Dr. Samuel Dreyer and to you - the 1 Q62 recipients of the Henry Hurd Rusby Awards — we were doubly proud of our close association with you and with the Columbia College of Pharmacy. Truly our cup runneth over with pride and joy, as well as with many wonderful reactions and emotions, some of which we would like to share with you and with everyone connected with the College of Pharmacy, from President John N. McDonnell down to the Student Body. While we have known and proudly shared your secret for many years, that your life s plan, purpose and ambition were to work for, attain and to execute a goal whereby you -would leave the residuary of your estate to the Columbia University College of Pharmacy for the improvement of salaries for the Chair of Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and other members of the Faculty, we had no idea that your goal ran so high, until you personally made public last night your secret and your future plans! And what better time could you have chosen and in what more effective manner could you have expressed your great appreciation for all that Columbia has done for you! Our hats go off to you and our hats go off to Columbia for such a great result, and for such an expression of love and reverence for one ' s Alma Mater; for Columbia s part in bringing about in you that inner feeling of wanting to do so much in return; for your making plans to carry out that desire; and, last but not least, for working so hard to make possible your deep feelings and ambitious goal. President McDonnell made the statement last night: We have so many plans for our College of Pharmacy that will make it the best. ' Well, it is the best and must have been so for many years back when it had the wisdom and the good judgment to appoint you, Abe, to its faculty forty years ago; when it gave you the warmth, the understanding, the friendship and the many opportunities, not only of teaching but of experimenting and researching, as well as the opportunity of expressing yourself orally and in writing; all of which helped to build up for you a reputation as an outstanding specialist and consultant in the field of Phar- maceutical Chemistry. Indirectly, this has paid off well for Columbia for. without this means of augmenting your salary, you could never have embarked on so ambitious a goal to leave to the School one million dollars! This took hard work, both in School as a Professor and outside of School as a Consultant. It took many

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personal sacrifices and deprivations, a tremendous stick-to-itiveness, a tireless and selfless dedication, and a great, big. inner urge and compulsion to make good and to do good for a great, big need at a great Srbool. It also goes to prove, once again, what a great country of opportunity we live in. for only in America could tbe pledge of one million dollars, which you made last night at the Annual Dinner, sound so real and possible of attainment. We are all familiar with many of America s Horatio Alger stories, but few can match the purpose, meaning and ultimate application of your life s ambitions and achieve- ments. This true story of a Columbia College of Pharmacy student who made good, should also serve as a great incentive for every- present and future student attending your College of Pharmacy, for here is truly an expression by an alumnus of alumni responsibility and purpose as well as a sense of deep indebtedness to the School which made all this possible. We trust that your gracious action will be emulated by others — no matter how large or how little the gift may be. May the good Lord bless you with good health and with many, many more years of a fruitful, useful and happy life: and. of course, may you live long enough to see your present fortune reach your goal of a million. It is a big order and a mighty big ambition to have but. knowing you as we do. we are confident you won t fail Columbia. Our salutations, greetings and heartfelt congratulations to you and to the Columbia University College of Pharmacy. Your very proud friends, THE HUBERTS P ' ofess °« ut )oTo0 umb ' a plp JgeS J » V t .„ , ar reason THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1962. Professor Taut did not keep the yearbook deadline in mind when he threw his unexpected bomb- shell during the Alumni Dinner. All we had time to do was to print other people s comments A professor at Co ma cy « .-t just g ing was cer v.itn Tn -