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

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Our Fourth Year It is September and we are now registering for our seventh time. Our high school friends are now seniors in college while we are only juniors; but we don ' t mind since our college career shall termi- nate in the pharmaceutical profession. It is at this time that we are to make decisions concerning our future. We are offered elective courses for the first time, and we must choose be- tween two paths. Some of us choose the graduate program, others select the retail and administra- tive program. During the first term, the class is held together through the Microbiology, Marketing, Dispensing, and Logic courses. Those choosing electives neces- sary for graduate study find themselves taking nine credits of Calculus in two terms (they really must want graduate school), while those taking the Ad- ministration program take Advanced Marketing and Workshop. (They must really want Adminis- tration.) In the Microbiology course under Dr. Clausen, everyone learned the why ' s and wherefore ' s, tech- niques and meaning of sterilization. Words such as Arnold, autoclaving and hot air ovens became common in this term. Dispensing Pharmacy, our first practical encounter in our pharmaceutical study, was more than adequately discussed by Dr. Gibaldi. We learned all about the important aspects of pharmacy including tinctures, fluid extracts, and how to make pills and troches, and many important techniques required by the State Board of Pharm- acy of every prospective pharmacist. The winter term brought little change in the pharmacy curriculum. Replacing the bacteria and virus was the gamboge and Mandrake Root. This was, of course, Prof. Pokorny ' s Pharmacognosy course, a true example of modern pharmacy. Who can ever forget the Grab Bag practicals and Miss Kelz running about the lab teaching us for the sec- ond time how to get a good cross section of a leaf? Speaking of practicals, how about the practicals taken in the Dispensing Laboratory? Why would anyone filter an emulsion? or place five grains of material in a T. T.? No one really knows, but it was done. This was also the year for administrative changes in the school. When Dean Leuallen resigned to take a new position in Albany, Dr. Kanig was appointed as the new Dean. Almost immediately changes were instituted, the magnitude of which would not be realized until we returned in September. The fourth year rapidly came to a close, but we still had one more very large year to go. 18

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Our Fifth Year September rolled around again, and with it came the nagging routine of registration and its various chores ranging from writing vital statistics in trip- licate to paying calls on rarely seen faculty advisors and the usual unburdening of one ' s money into the hands of the bursar. To compensate for this dull routine, the thought that this would be the last year of our undergraduate career kept running through our heads. Little did we know that September morn- ing that the year ahead would be full of news-worthy tidings and at times, unwelcome events. Our fifth year was truly a year to remember. This was the year of the Eastern Blackout which envel- oped our city with darkness for nearly twelve hours at a most crucial time, for darkness struck on the eve of an organic medicinals midterm examination. It was also the year of the Mass Transportation Strike on New Year ' s Day, forcing the closing of the college for an extra week and thereby extending our winter vacation to three weeks. Upon returning to school, we were informed that 250 pages of un- lectured material would be covered on the P ' col. final the following week, and would count a total of 50% of the exam. Yes, this was also the year of the Vietnam crisis, a most delicate issue all around for both our fighting men overseas and the draft exempt 2-S men here at the college. This was also the year in which every senior became a celebrity, having his picture taken at every turn by the able photography squad of the yearbook. Yes, this was the year of the seniors. It was the year of senior photos, senior yearbook, senior jokes, and senior trips. Visits to Winthrop-Sterling Labs, Eli Lilly Co., and Parke Davis Co. were most fruitful and enjoyable. We were also faced for the first time with courses in fields we touched but lightly in previous courses. Pharmacology with Dr. Merker proved quite an experience especially when noting that . . . in the muscle ... we get respiratory embarrassment . . . followed by acute death. Psychology with Dr. Bel- aief proved less psychological than humorous. At the end of the first semester, we parted warmly with Dr. Gibaldi after having spent two and one half years under his able and most rewarding teaching of the physical and dispensing pharmacy courses. At the same time, we were reunited once again with Prof. Lipman in the sociology course. As graduation day neared, heart beats raced and humor increased. Graduation day will mark the point of embarkation on new roads for every senior who has helped make the class a united entity. Yes, the whole will break into its parts once again only to be reunited at the Alumni reu nion in April 1971. 20