Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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DEAN EVERT KENDIG SCHOOL OF PHARMACY By Dean Evert Kendig WHEN the introduction of a course in Pharmacy added another professional school to Temple University, the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy, Ph.G., was granted for the satisfactory completion of a two years' work schedule for afternoons three days per week This was in consonance with the requirements of the average college of pharmacy of that period, 1901, although sporadic efforts were being made to increase the number of required hours and to amplify the curriculum. Concerted effort on the part of pharmaceutical educators during the two decades following resulted in the adoption of a three-year course by the colleges of pharmacy of the country in 1925, with the requirement of a minimum number of 2250 instruction hours per year. The three-year course was an essential evolutionary step toward placing pharmaceutical education on an equality with that accepted as a standard by other university departments, and it led in due time to the adoption in 1932 of the four-year course required bv the standard Bachelor of Science degree. Within little more than a quarter of a century the School of Pharmacy has progressed from a course which, although offering excellent professional training, was entirely technical, to instruction under a curriculum which effectively combines the special scientific requirements of the pharmacist with a broad, liberal, college education. It is a splendid achievement and an illuminat- 22 ]

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SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY Appreciating the importance of practical clinical experience as part of the dental students' training, new equipment consisting of 85 dental chairs and electric units was installed in 1930, with the result that the Infirmary is recognized as one of the finest in the country. In addition to this, the five floors of the Garretson Building, on Hamilton Street, which house the various scientific laboratories, contain the most modern equipment for graduate and undergraduate study. The School has also contributed to the advancement of science through the establishment of research laboratories, outstanding among which is the Henry Dorr Laboratory established in 1928, in which both undergraduate and graduate instruction is given covering the entire field of Oral and Dental Pathology. Including the last graduating class, approximately 200 young women have received their training as Oral Hygienists and are to be found following their profession not only in Pennsylvania but in neighboring states where they have legal recognition. The minimum requirement for admission to the Dental School is a completed four-year high school course, plus one pre-dental year in a college of arts and sciences. Students are selected according to their standing in high school and in the pre-dental course. The dental course proper extends over a period of four years of thirty-two weeks each and leads to the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. 421

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SCHOOL OF PHARMACY ing commentary upon the vitality of the institution founded by Russell H. Con well. The institution of this four-year course leading to the Bachelor of Science degree is one of the greatest contributions to professional education made by our progressing century, and in large part has solved the problem of effecting a happy and operative relationship between liberal and professional training. Pharmacy is deserving of the highest type of education which can be devised: its history, nature, and only possible prognosis testify to this. It is one of the most ancient and honorable professions of man, originating in prehistoric times and antedated by none except religion. No other science or profession surpasses it in brilliant achievement and exalted humanitarianism. Mentioning such names as Serturner, Courrois, Pelletier, Caventou, Scheele, Thenard, among whom are the discoverers of some of the most beneficent substances in modern materia medica, such as Morphine, Iodine, Quinine, Hydrogen Dioxide, Oxygen, and Chlorine, suffices to recall to our minds the venerable dignity of the profession and science of pharmacy. The pharmacist is a co-worker with the physician in their common field of restoring health to the ill and suffering. In aiding to reclaim and maintain health, he is a purveyor of comfort and happiness of the highest order to the community. His profession requires hard study, long and exacting experience, close application, sturdy character, and an appreciation of values. His daily task is to work with some of the most potent and deadly weapons known to mankind, but which dispensed secundum artem, alleviate pain and sustain life. In a very real wav the pharmacist is a guardian of important constructive laws of the Commonwealth. It is in the integrity of the pharmacist that a large part of the successful administration of narcotic legislation rests. Whether as a compounder of drugs or as a commercial attache, his unique place in society necessitates a high code of ethics. Like the physician, the modern pharmacist must be a sound psychologist. He is at once the time-honored medicamentarius, a businessman, an official of the law, a social service worker, and the community's philosopher, guide, and friend. The Bachelor of Science course in the School of Pharmacy is designed to produce graduates who will ably uphold the best traditions of this beneficent profession, and who will contribute to the social, economic, and political thinking and activity in which the professionally trained should take a prominent part. '{23