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

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To the Class of 1962 Education. Graduation, Com- mencement — these are terms which ring frequently in your ear during these happy days when you first read these lines in The Apothekan. One completes one s education — and the graduation ceremony takes place at commencement. You have completed suc- cessfully your years of academic study. You are certain that now you are ready for your life s work. You look forward with confidence to an interesting and successful career in your profession, in science or in business. Pause for a moment! These words have other and special meanings. Years from now. as you have occasion to re-read this message, it may well be that you will have discovered that as you leave these college halls your education is only beginning. It is much more than the acquisition of knowledge from lectures and from texts that develops the educated man or woman. One must continue in the learning process. To learn to meet and best the difficulties of life, to understand and appre- ciate one s place in relation to others, to plan and achieve a constant succession of new goals — that is the practical education that life provides as one grows older. Graduation is change, constant but inevitable from the carefree youthful years to the responsibilities and problems of later life. Commencement too. means a beginning. Now you can begin to put to full use the knowledge, the tools and the techniques which have been afforded to you. The opportunities of the future will appear only as you choose to create them. You will discover that as you learn to meet the changing demands of life, you will also achieve certain rewards. Do not seek as goals or measure your achievement solely in terms of money, power or prestige. Value equally the psychic income. the satisfaction one gains from a good job well done. In turn these rewards will create new objectives. They will bear witness to your continuing education. How well you will have answered this challenge will be apparent in the happiness, satisfaction and achievement that you will attain. The officers and the members of the Board of Trustees of our College extend to you and to your fellow classmates sincere congratulations and good wishes for health and happiness in the years to come.

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To the Class of 1962 With pleasure I accept the invitation of the editor of APOTHEK AN- 1 962 to bring to you my greeting, and that of the University, as you approach the close of your formal preparation for your chosen life work. I stress the phrase formal preparation. As I am sure you know, the truly educated man is the individual to whom his education is a continuing experience. Lessons learned each day in the practice of a profession and in the living of a life are an unending education for the perceptive person. This is a more significant truth today than ever before. Changes come with bewildering rapidity in science, in economics, in the social and political fields, in every area of human endeavor. From year to year, from month to month, you will meet problems. I suspect, that never before have been presented in your profession. The work you now complete in the College of Pharmacy has been designed to provide a fund of knowledge, and a philosophy, upon which to build. Similarly. I nope your work in the College of Pharmacy will have resulted in the stimulation of an intellectual interest that will impel! you to reach out unceasingly for new knowledge to guide you in your professional and personal lives. The opportunity you have had to study in the College of Pharmacy imposes upon you, of course, the obligation of increased responsibility to the community you will serve. I trust that you will accept this obligation. Doing so, you will earn lasting and deep satisfaction, the richest reward of all. I send my cordial good wishes to each of you. Grayson Kirk. President

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To the Class of 2962 Among this year ' s graduates of the seventy-six colleges of pharmacy across the country is a future president of the A.Ph.A., several presidents of state so- cieties, county and regional officers with- out number, probably a dozen pharmacy teachers, perhaps a dean or two. Most of these graduates will become active in community affairs, usually on a voluntary basis, a few as elected officials. Some will revitalize their alumni associations, some will just complain. The majority of the class of 1962 will hold to the original objective that brought them to pharmacy college, the oppor- tunity of owning and managing their own pharmacies. Others are headed for hospital practice, detailing, public health work, wholesaling, journalism and other areas within the profession and industry. A sizable number will enter graduate or professional schools and a few will engage in work that has not the remotest con- nection with pharmacy. If we use recent history as a guide, Columbia s 1962 class will be represented in almost all of these categories. You will work as professional men and women, as scientists, and as business men. You will also enjoy a participation in community and civic affairs. My hope is that the educational base provided at Columbia University College of Pharmacy has been broad enough and fundamental enough that your own interests can be developed; that some experience has been gained in logical thinking so that you will not hesitate to tackle new problems: that your native curiosity has not been satisfied but enlarged; and, finally, that you are imbued with an appreciation of the high ethical and moral concepts which are the true hallmarks of the pharmacist-citizen. Your progress will always be of interest to the faculty and staff and I am looking forward to many pleasant relations. Sincerely. E. E. Leuallen, Dean 10