Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences - Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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relatives, now sponsors a half-hour television program upon which is featured Robert Dolloff, the Singing Pharmacist, and a serial entitled Carl Shumrak, Dispensing Pharmacist. In a large recreation hall are a group of classmates con- sisting of Hugh Hartman, Andy Perina, Jerry Muller, Richard Briggs and Elmer Brown. During our senior year we thought it was chance that brought them together, but it was no game. They were planning the chain of stores which they now operate. Frank Roddy is talking to their group. Prank's cultured tones and articulation make us wonder if he hasnit spent a good deal of time with someone in the teaching profession. joe Reynolds is also in this group. Joe, besides prac- ticing pharmacy, also has a partnership in a mortuary. If medicine can't cure them, Joe collects anyway. Leo Gagnon is seated at the piano playing a tune accom- panied by john Sharpe on the uke.', Leo still manages to take piano lessons while working fifty-five hours in a drug store, while john Sharpe is the director of the Sharpe and Steeple manufacturing company, successor to Sharp and Dohme. Clarence Hassan is the proprietor of the moon's only drug store, called the Oasis. On the moon is a hospital for research. The staff has several members of our class: Thelma Lezberg and Eleanor Pendergast are working on an advanced theory of genetics, trying to develop the ninety-nine point nine student. Head of the pharmacy is Joe Moloney, while Joe Powers, having made his fortune Havoring medicinal alcohol with agents developed in the Navy, is on the advisory board. A loud racket can be heard from outside the building and looking through the window I can see that Max Anetzberger has meted out revenge for a wrong done to him by Charlie King during a past fraternity affair, and has doused Charlie over the head with a large bottle of coke. A program of events is passed out to us. The program was edited by Warren Spear, who put to use experience acquired as publisher of his Frat's paper. Sid Tankel is talking to-of all people-myself! Sid is recalling the day in our senior year when, after completing a set of Blaud's pills, I found that I had left out the strychnine sulfate. Sid's remark at the time was, Leave out the strychnine, john, it's poison anyway! This has come down as an M. C. P. classic. Bill Spears is dashing about trying to get everyone photographed for a pamphlet to be published recounting the class outing. Seems like old times. Luncheon is the next event on the program, and I notice that we have as speak- ers some of our classmates. A loud argument has taken place during the meal. Ralph Shangraw, now Chairman of the Vermont State Board, was the center of it. Ralph insisted that he ordered a peanut butter sandwich and not a peanut butter and jelly. The master of ceremonies is Henry Gagnon. Henry has received prominence as head of the A.Ph.A. The first speaker is Charlie Mountain. Charlie, while preparing a talk on bacteriology, became interested in the treatment of the common cold and now can cure in two weeks a cold that would ordinarily persist for fourteen days. The next speaker is Bob King. Bob's topic is The Need of Closer Social Contact Between Pharmacists. Bob and his wife tried to carry out this plan during the latter part of the senior year. Seated next to Bob is Dave Henry, who has always helped Bob with programs of this sort. Next comes a discussion period at which various questions are asked from the floor. Louis Principe, one of the first of a long line of Principes to enter M. C. P., who is now settled in California, gives viewpoints of trends in West Coast pharmacy. Look- ing down the table I notice the flaming red-headed Mert Dyer. Mert is seated next to platinum blond Al Laaperi. Both A1 and Mert are partners as drug

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infamous for in college. Allan jaspon has a somewhat lost look on his f h' h suddenly brightens into a smile as he spies his partner in business DQWZCB W IF There they are: Bppy and Jas always together. Arthur Foden now has clijrieeloqf the largest stores in the state of Maine, but is still frustrated in his endeavor to improve on Professor Goodness's analysis chart. Luke Perkins who alwa s said that once he got back home to Maine he would never come back, to Maggadilusetts has broken his word for this special occasion. Bill Rezuke pharmacy's foremost? representative in the Worcester area, has received special, permisgign from his charming wife, Emily, to be with us for this one day. Will Osgood who is H9311 graying about the temples, arrived with Clayt Randall. Will has fhe distinctioii of being the only pharmacist in the universe still selling fishing licenses. Clayt who is now running his father's store in Dover, still finds time in the summer to get to Salisbury and Hampton beaches. Sid German has made a fortune in a fast- selling nerve tonic, besides acquiring hypertension and an ulcer. Standing alone in a corner is Larry Kadis who, suffering from a complex developed in his senior year, speaks only to his family and close friends. Doc Rice also developed com- plications in his senior year and could not decide whether to go into real estate or pharmacy. Doc chose pharmacy and has gone a long way in the field. john Hounsell, having decided that Florida was too cold both in climate and population has settled in California, where he and jerry Goodwin are partners in the Goodj sell Pharmacy. A roar is heard from the rear of the building and we all know that Dave Feather, a well-known figure in pharmacy in the state of Vermont, has arrived on his rotor-cycle. john Lemanski has finished his first edition of the interplanetary Remington and can be seen discussing it with Edmund Kowalski, now the pro- prietor of the North Shore Pharmacy in Danvers. Pat Chase has combined an avocation with a vocation and is now the proprietor of a swank hotel and pharmacy called Pat's Place. Bill Colman, having found time through his college career for short naps, is now owner of Colman's Rest Home. Robert Michael Deyak arrives somewhat worn out, the boys, as a practical joke, hid his Crossley jet, and he has had a difficult time finding it. Cries of Ti Kanis and Kala can be heard at the door, and Ted Kallelis, James Leontire, and Milt Stamatos, the Classis de- scendants of Aristotle, meet amid much handshaking and backslapping. john Regan, after graduation from M. C. P., was the rage of the Abbott Research Laboratories, doing six hours work in one hour, he is now manager of this divi- sion of Abbott. Tom Major, having acquired the dignity of age and a solid repu- tation, can now enter and leave Simmons at will. The hour for departure is drawing near. At the last minute Larry Segel and Mort Zuroff come dashing up the stairs. Mort and Larry still use the Mystic River Bridge traffic as an excuse for their tardiness. . We now proceed to the Boston Spaceport where our rocket is ready. At the Spaceport, waiting for us, are other classmates. After commuting for four years to M. C. P., Frank Germain took over the Armstrong Co. and installed a drug line. As the rocket is about to leave, Oscar Beck proposes the type of quesl tion for which he gained notoriety as a student and asks, What time do we eat? The scene now changes again and we are on the moon. The group has scat- tered somewhat, and I can see members of the class that I had 'missed while on earth. Fred Riley, who was unable to secure a recommendation for a Public Health job, has gone on in retail work and is now owner of theilargest drug store in the city of Lowell. Irving Stoller, following the radio advertising policy of his

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5. iif' l I 5 . ELA, 1 ' SSE we X X: 5 fi i J I . il'- y . X.. 1 , . E I 3 I 1 f l ' 1 3 . 2 1 f 1 ,ff 41- f mf' ff, ,f,. 144. 4m f V . fam 'Q If V ? wholesalers and are state board members. Talking with Al and Mert is Earl Ashley. Earl, I have heard, had a difficult time rehabilitating himself to civilian life after college, but is now doing very well. T his outing has proved to be edu- cational, and two members of our class have obtained useful information. Armand Brousseau cannot understand why French is not spoken on the moon. Armand is now working on an interspatial pharmacopeia which will be in French, of course. Ted Azer has taken many pictures to prove to his fellow Chelseans that Chelsea is not the most beautiful place in the universe. An announcement has been made from the head table that Dave Carew has not yet had his picture taken and should see Bill Spears at once. Dave has been very shy about having his picture taken after an experience that occurred in his senior year. The final speech of the program has raised a good deal of commotion. jim Murphy, after taking the Professional Relations course, has professionalized his store to the extent of selling drugs only on prescription to doctors and dentists themselves. Vonnie Safford's traveling is far ahead of that of the class now as it was twenty-five years ago. Vonnie traveled on the first rocket to the moon and had charge of the dispensary. Nancy Welch and Marie Bastianelli are both in advanced research at the Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation, and are asking Vonnie about some of the research going on outside of the earth. Marion Rubbo and Kay Barsamian, who are doing retail work, seem unconcerned with the technical conversation that is going on and are having their own private tete-a-tete. The meal has been excellent. The caterer was one of our classmates. Vin Dunphy, while arranging the banquet our senior year, found that a good deal of money could be made in banquet catering and has gone into that business. As all good things must come to a close, so must our twenty-fifth outing. While boarding the ship, I notice a few people whom I have not seen all day. Mel Haskins has a captaincy in the Naval Reserve after serving almost thirty years, and is in complete uniform. Bob Kearney suffered during the senior year a series of conflicting emotions. Worry about the draft and of plans for the senior trip placed lines under Bob's eyes that have never been erased. As I board the ship I meet the pilot who is to take us home. He is Dick Roscoe. Dick went into the Air Corps after graduation and was one of the first rocket fly boys. Ralph Carson goes aboard just ahead of me. Ralph has now risen to the rank of Rear Admiral in the Navy. Oscar French comes aboard somewhat the worse for wear. Oscar's convertible during college days sported quite an aggregation of fellows and all of Oscar's friends repaid his hospitality today. I overhear some- one ask Charlie Pederzoli how he liked the trip. Charlie must have his years mixed up because his reply is, I love Chicago. The crystal ball begins to fog as the ship leaves the moon, and I feel myself becoming very drowsy and start to fall asleep. When I awake there is in the room a musky odor, and the crystal ball and the Oracle have disappeared. If this prophecy falls through, It was not I who failed you. The Oracle told me what to say, Then I wrote it down in a night and day. END