St Louis College of Pharmacy - Prescripto Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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-ld DIQESCIDIDTU Ie'---4--as The 64th session of the College was officially ushered in on November 7, 1927, in the new building located on Euclid Avenue and Parkview Place, in the midst of one of the leading medical centers in the country. During the same year Pro- fessor Hemm passed into the great beyond much to the sorrow of his friends. He was succeeded as Professor of Theoretical Pharmacy by Arthur F. Schlichting. ln May, 1930, Professor Hogstad resigned and Dr. C. WV. Duden was elected to succeed him as Professor of Materia Medica. In the same year Dr. Caspari, after teaching twenty-five yC31'S, was forced to relinquish his professorship due to the pressure of outside activities and Dr. James R. Thayer was elected as Pro- fessor of Theoretical Chemistry with Noel M. Ferguson as Assistant succeeding George Long, who had resigned. Due to the rapid advancement of Pharmacy the four-year course was ofncially adopted by the College to begin in the fall of 1932 and the Bachelor of Science degree will now be given in place of the Ph.G. degree, the standard for 68 years. V ! lf tc, x fe ---419 32?-H we Page Seventy-Seven

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DIQESCIQIDTD Is-a Upon the resination of Professor I-linrichs in 1903, Dr. Charles E. Caspari accepted the chair of Chemistry with Professor Leo Suppan as his assistant. A course in commercial Pharmacy was inaugurated in 1908 under the instructor- ship of Mr. XNYITI. Lamont. Shortly afterwards this course was revised by Mr. I. C. Hoes- ' ter and he was appointed as professor in charge. In 1915 Carl G. I-Iinrichs was ap- ponited associate professor of fChemistry which position he still holds. Thereupon George Lang became assistant in Chemistry which position he held until 1930. Professor Good resigned in 19163 Professor Hemm was elected to the chair of theoret- ical Pharmacy and Dr. I-I. M. W'helpley was appointed Dean of the College. Dr. I. A. VVarner was elected Lecturer in Bacteriology in 1920 and at the same time Dr. W. G. Rainey was elected Lecturer on Accidents and Emergen- cies which positions both men hold at the present time. -.:-... .,,i . In 1922, Dr. Otto A. Wall - -1 V e'11' professor of Materia Medica, .1 ,. ist-4.,-i,..ttsaL...aafeQ-1215249 . Pharmacognosy and Botany, OLD COLLEGE died. Leo Suppan was elected UST if LOCUST STREETS to the chair of Professor of Pharinacognosy and Botany, which course was now made a separate department and Dr. Henry XN7helpley was appointed Professor of Materia Medica. Previously Professor Suppan had de- livered the lectures in Pharmaceutical Arithmetic as well as assisting Professor I-Iemm in the department of Pharmacy. Wm. C. Clark Was elected as assistant in practical Pharmacy in 1923 and made Associate Professor of Pharmacy in 1926. At the same time E. Eugene Clark was elected as Professor Suppan's Assistant and he was made Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy and Botany in 1926. In June, 1926, Dr. I-I. M. VVhelpley died suddenly, Dr. Caspari succeeding him as Dean and Anton I-Iogstad, Jr., as professor of Materia Medica. DC I9 'z , 3 2 ps I.-J' NJ, Page Seventy-Six V

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Page SeveutyfEight ---1--at Dlaliscllallitro The Four Year Course VVithin the past year, The St. Louis College of Pharmacy has committed itself to the inauguration of a four-year course in Pharmacy leading to a standard aca- demic degree. ' The day for debating the advisability of such a step is past. NVe are pledged to a course of action, our sole province is to derive the greatest profit from our opportunities. , A It is both honorable and wise to criticise, adversely, any policy before it becomes an accepted course of action. After adoption, we do well to seek only merits-at least until after an unbaised trial has negated its usefulness. A W'hat then, are the probable benefits to be expected from a lengthened course of study? , P , The benefit most frequently argued and also the most susceptible to perversion is that professional standards will be raised. Such a change is to a greater extent dependent upon the need and desire of the profession to be elevated than it is upon the number of years invested in education. However, ignoring the truth or absurdity of the aspersions which have been cast upon the profession, we are erasing one of the most shopworn criticisms in destroying the temporal disparity between educa- tion for Pharmacy and education for other professions. The real elfect of a four- year course on the improvement of professional standards depends on those who are practicing, those who are studying and those who are teaching Pharmacy. A far greater and much more authentic improvement is to beexpected from the inclusion, in the curriculum, of a number of basic courses. The words f'Basic and 'fCultural' have been bandied around too freely in speaking of those contem- plated additions to the course of study. Culture is a subjective acquisition and cannot be handed from institution to student like a diploma. Wfhat we hope to do and have good right to hope to be able to do, is to incorporate certain courses which will serve as a solid foundation for the professional studies which are to follow. If these same courses open up some of the avenues which lead to individual culture we are the more to be congratulated. Professional proficiency is being able to carry on well, all phases of our pro- fessional lives. Professional education is that type of experience which professes to achieve this end. Just as the latter must precede the former, so preliminary training is a requisite precursor of specialized education. It is this need which we hope the addiitonal year will supply. Here is a real motive and one which should be fully appreciated. If we can, as a corollary of this ambition, extend to the individual so inclined, the tools and methods from which culture may be fabri- cated, we are accomplishing a scarcely less worthy purpose. VVhether we realize these ideals or others not now foreseen, or fail completely or partially, our hand is committed to a policy and our clear duty lies in the di1'ec- tion of turning our backs to the past and facing the future inspired by new ideals and new hopes. sb -Q IQ 3 2 ef Q 1.2:-