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

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1933 PRhSCRIP1O Miss Mary Park N THE fall of 1926 Miss Mary Park came to us as secretary to the dean, Dr. Whelpleyg since that time she has been active as manager of the Dean's oiiice and as registrar in his absence. Miss Park is best known to the students for her kindly disposition and her Willingness to help in times of financial stress, aiding many to secure employment. Her optimistic attitude has helped many students overcome the vicissitudes of examinations and school Work. No matter how busy Miss Park may be, nothing has been too great or too trivial to get her earnest attention. She is not only interested in the school collectively but in each of us individ- ually. We, of the Staff, wish to show here our great appreciation of the assistance Miss Park has given us in our many requests with which We had to come to the oiicice. Page Seventy Thv ee

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1933 PIREQCRIPTO Upon the resignation of Professor Hinrichs in 1903, Dr. Charles E. Caspari accepted the Chair of Chemistry with Professor Leo Suppan as his assistant. A course in Commercial Pharmacy was introduced in 1908 under the instruc- torship of Mr. Wm. Lamont and was shortly afterwards revised by Mr. J. C. Hoester, who was appointed professor. In 1915 Carl G. Hinrichs was appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry. George Lang became Assistant in Chemistry and continued to hold this position until 1930. With the resignation of Pro'- fessor Good in 1916, Professor Hemm was elected to the chair of Theoretical Pharmacy and Dr. H. M. Whelpley was appointed dean of the College. Dr. W. G. Rainey was appointed lecturer on accidents and emergency in 1920, and at the same time Dr. J. A. Warner was appointed lecturer in bacteriology, which positions both men hold at the present time. In 1922 Dr. Wall, Professor of Materia Medica, Pharmacognosy, and Botany, died. At this time two departments were established, Leo Suppan being appointed to the chair of Pharmacognosy and Botany, and Dr. Whelpley to the chair of Materia Medica. In 1923 Wm. C. Clark was appointed assistant in Practical Pharmacy and was made an Associate Professor of Pharmacy in 1926. At the same time, E. E. Clark was appointed as Professor Suppan's assistant and later was made Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy and Botany. In June, 1926, Dr. Whelp- ley died suddenly, Dr. Caspari succeeding him as dean and Anton Hogstad, Jr., as Professor of Materia Medica. On November 7, 1927, the 64th session of the College was officially opened in the new building located on Euclid and Park- view Place, in the midst of one of the largest medical centers of the country. In the same year Professor Hemm passed into the Great Beyond. He was succeeded by Arthur F. Schlichting. In 1930, after the resignation of Pro- fessor Hogstad, came the appointment of Dr. C. W. Duden as Professor of Materia Medica. In this year Dr. Caspari, after teaching twenty-five years, relinquished his professorship because much of his time was taken up by out- side activities, and was succeeded by Dr. James R. Thayer with Noel M. Ferguson as assistant, and who is now instructor in the Department of Botany and Pharmacognosy. Because of the higher requirements for pharmacists, the four-year course was officially adopted by this College to begin in the fall of 1932, the Bachelor of Science degree replacing the Ph.G. degree which had been the standard for sixty-eight years. ' The establishment of this four-year course brought about numerous changes. New courses were established and old courses were changed to meet the requirement for the new degree. The new subjects which are now being taught are Bacteriology, English, German, Physics, and Mathematics. The fol- lowing appointments were made: Wm. Dallmann, B.D., A.M., as Professor of English and German, O. K. DeFoe, AB., M.S., Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics and Physics, and George F. Reddish, B.S., Ph.D., Professor of Bacteriology. Two new assistants in Chemistry have been added to the faculty, Harold A. J eskey, Ph.G., and Roy J. Klosterman, Ph.G., former students of the College. At the present time the freshman class is small, not because the interest in pharmacy has waned, but because of Old Man Depression and various other reasons. However, watch how classes are going to increase in the future. The College will be as successful in the future as it has been in the past. Page Seventy Two

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193 3 PRE9CRIP'1'lJ An Educational Postmortem by Senior X T IS about over, and being a serious-minded sort of a cuss I'm wondering if I should be given a degree or demoted to the freshman class, or perhaps pre- freshman class. I can't ask any of my friends or associates, because now that we are facing so many problems, honestly I'm afraid they, in the new spirit of frankness might tell me a lot of things which'I'd better not know. The nearest approach to the solution that I can discover is to imagine what I'd tell my son if he was embarking on the educational voyage. I think I'd advise him first to keep his senses alert for every fact, sign, deduction, or indication that promotes his judgment in the appraisal of values. I don't mean in terms of price tickets or percentage deductions, I have in mind the ability to arrange the things, tangible and intangible, which are liable to be allotted to him by life. I think his education should teach him to unscramble the deck and be able to recognize and pick out the aces and kings and let someone else fight over the deuces and treys. If he can't do that he's bound to dissipate most of his energy following cold trails. I'd tell him also, Son, you may not be a genius, but if you can't use the intelligence and knowledge you have, you're a fool. lid advise hirn to think through every statement he hears and every problem assigned to him, and if he canit reconcile the facts with his logic and intelligence, either demand an explanation or ask to be failed in that part of his work. The only time knowl- edge is of any value is in emergencies, and knowledge is the ability to apply what you know, and you never know anything until you understand it. I'd tell him, too, to train himself in this old game of rubbing elbows, and what's really important, doing it without breaking or even wanting to break the other fellow's upper extremity. The other chap may be just as far removed from his simian ancestors as you are. There is just as much in favor of his being right as in your being right. Even if you feel sure he's wrong, the chances are if you'll think back you'll recall a couple of instances in which you also erred. Learn to accept from him the things that square with your sense of right, and, if there are things you can't condone, let him keep them and don't feel that you are doing him a favor by so doing. I'd advise him to learn twenty-five per cent more about his profession than the average practitioner. I'd do this because I know that mediocrity never allowed any man to be entirely happy. For the sake of his continued happiness I'd urge upon him the importance of learning how to invest all his energies. That's why we all look back on our college days with the tears of sweet recollection oozing so freely, for at no time during life are our energies so completely and pleasantly absorbed as when we are rah-rahing our way through school. I'd explain to him that he will hear of a great many other things he should get in return for his investment, but that if he would analyze them carefully they would prove to be corollaries of some of the foregoing. If he accomplished these things I'd seize his hand after the Exercises were over and say, Son, you've done a fine job. SENIOR X. Page Seventy Four