University of Maryland School of Pharmacy - Terra Mariae Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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TERRA MARIAE 19 3 6 1840-1842. followed h Mr. Benjamin Rush Roberts from 1842 to 1844. Mr. George W. Andrews was president from 1844 to 1871, and was followed in succession by such illustrious pharmacists as Ur. J. Brown Baxley, Dr. J. Faris Moore, Dr. John F. Han- cock, Dr. Joseph Roberts. Dr. Edwin Eareckson, Mr. William S. Thompson, Mr. Louis Dohme and Mr. Charles E. Dohme (1894-1904.) In 1904, it became a department of the state university, when the old Universitv of Maryland was merged with the Mary- land State College. With this last merger control was transferred to the officers of the L ' niversity. The control of the University of Maryland is now vested in the Board of Regents, of which Mr. George M. Shriver is Chairman. A Faculty Council, composed of the Dean and certain members of the Faculty, control the internal affairs of each separate school comprising the University. Dr. Charles C. Caspari. Jr., became Dean of the Maryland College of Pharmacy in 1896. and continued as Dean after the merger of the College with the old University of Maryland, until his death on October 13. 1917. Dr. Daniel Bas succeeded him. but because of conditions incident to the World War, Dr. Base obtained leave of absence to teach in another department, and Dr. Evander F. Kelly was elected Dean on September 30, 1918. This office was held by Dr. Kelly until December 31, 1925. when he became Secretary of ihe American Pharmaceutical Association. Dr. Andrew G. DuMez, form- erly Associate Pharmacologist. Hygienic Laboratory. U. S. Public Health Service, is the present Dean. When the institution was first chartered in 1841. the lectures were given in the amphitheater of the L ni ersity of Mar land. Following the reorganization in 1856, and until 1876. the College occupied halls rented for the |)urpose. In the early part of the latter year, the city grammar school located at Aisquith Street near Fayette Street was purchased and after radical but needed changes, the College occupied what was then considered a very connnodious home. However, as classes began to increase, the need was felt for more room and better facilities, and in 1886 a new building was erected on the t)ld site. This building was fitted with the then-most-modern in scientific ajjpliances. and was well stocked with the necessary apparatus, materials, and speci- mens. The College continued to occupy these quarters until it became the Department of Pharmacy of the I riiversilv of Mar land, in 1904. At the present time the School of Pharma is loi ated in the new Pharnia and Dental Building at Lombard and Greene Streets, which liuilding was made possible b) an appropriation from the State of Mary- land during the legislative session of 1929. The new building is the realization of a great need for adequate quarters in which to teach the honored profession of Pharmacy in Maryland. E eryone interested in Pharmac nia well be proud of the splendid building, as well a of the modern equip- ment and apparatus which have been provided for demonstration and teaching pur- poses. From the foregoing it will be seen that the School of Pharmacy of the ITiiiversity of Mar land, which began its existence as the Maryland College of Pharmacy, has exer- cised its functions as a teaching institution since 1841 except for the ten-year period 1846 to 18.56. In spite of its vicissitudes it has steadily borne itself onward and upward. It has steadily increased and improved its facilities to enable it to impart instruction in keeping w ith the pharmaceutical knowledge of the times. It was the first institution of its kind to establish a professorshi)) of Pharmacy, and thereby allocate to that branch of learning an indi idualitv of its own. It was also one of the first schools to make analytical chemistry obligatory for graduation. In still other lines its leadership has been manifested, particularly in the textbooks published bv members of its teaching staff. The result has been a steady growth in size and influence so that the School now holds a position in the front ranks of the teaching institutions of its kind in this country. 22

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