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

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THE SCHDOL

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LUCIUS E. SAYRE IT UCIUS E. SAYRE, fonner President of the American Pharma- IL ceutical Association, was bom at Bridgeton, New Jersey, in 1848. Ambitious to learn more of the many things he had become acquainted with while working at the drug store of Robeson and Whitaker and to acquire a scientific knowledge of pharmacy, he decided to attend the Phila- delphia College of Pharmacy. After graduation from college in 1866 he was employed in various capacities and then entered into the drug business for himself, forming a partnership with his friend and classmate, the late Professor Joseph P. Remington. During these years he was also lecturer in pharmacy at the Women ' s Medical College and quiz-master in materia medica at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In 1885 the Kansas Legislature, passed an act creating a School of Pharmacy. TTie Board of Regents elected Professor Sayre Dean of the School and Professor of Materia Medica. and of Pharmacy. Professor Sayre was president of the American Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation in 1919, and prior to that time held offices in the various sections of the Association. He had also been the director of drug analysis for the Kansas State Board of Health, was a member of three U. S. P. Revision Committees, and held various other notable positions during his lifetime. Professor Sayre died on July 21, 1925. Lucius E. Sayre was a man of remarkable foresight. He replied to the statement that professional pharmacy must inevitably become sub- servient to commercial interests in the average retail establishment by show- ing that the predominant note in pharmacy was not commercialism in its accepted sense. He deplored the increase in the number of side lines in the modem drug store. He set the precedent for our fight to obtain recognition from the med- ical service of the army in this war by his actions in 1918. Emphasizing that the military service of pharmacy must be made as efficient as possible, he advocated for pharmacists a rank commensurate with their importance.

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History of the SCHOOL of Pharmacy THE need of an institution where apprentices in pharmacy could be given systematic instruction in the sciences underlying their profession had long been felt by leading pharmacists and physicians of Baltimore, when in 1841 a charter was obtained from the General Assembly for the Maryland College of Pharmacy. The incorporators, seventeen in number, and among whom were Messrs. George M. Andrews, Thomas G. MacKenzie, R. Rush Roberts, Robert Cole- man and Dr. David Stewart, immediately organized and established courses of instruction in chemistry, pharmacy and materia medica. These men carried on the work of the college until 1847, when, owing to the death of some members and change of business of others, they were compelled to suspend all lectures. During the period of operation, however, they gradu- ated a number of eminent pharmacists, to whose eflForts in resuscitating and reorganizing the college in 1856 much is due. Among the older graduates appear t he names of Messrs. Frederick A. Cochrane, Alpheus P. Sharp, William S. Thompson, Samuel Rodgers, J. Paris Moore, John W. Read and Christian Steinhofer. Of these, Messrs. Alpheus P. Sharp and William S. Thompson were not only earnest and active supporters of the college, but were adornments to the profession they represented, as well as graduates of whom their Alma Mater might well be proud. In 1856, at the request of the graduates and a number of Baltimore pharmacists, the president, Mr. George W. Andrews, called a meeting which resulted in the election of thirty-one new members, and a thorough reorganization of the college. The new Board of Trustees established three professorshijas: Dr. Lewis Steiner was elected Professor of Chemistry; Dr. Charles P. Frick, Professor of Materia Medica, and Israel Grahame, Professor of Pharmacy. A course of lectures was given during the season 1857-1858 to a class of intelligent and appreciative students, and the college took a new lease on life, which has since been maintained. Dr. David Stewart gave the lectures in pharmacy during the period 1841-1846. Following the reorganiza- tion, the chair of pharmacy was filled by Professor Israel J. Grahame, who was succeeded by Mr. P. Phillips, an earnest and interesting instructor. The sudden death of Professor Phillips caused the election of J. Paris Moore to the vacancy. Professor Moore was one of the oldest graduates of the college, and was a consistent and zealous worker in behalf of his Alma Mater and in the interest of pharmacy until his death. He continued in the chair of pharmacy for nineteen years, when, on resignation of the chair of Materia Medica by Professor Baxley, he was chosen Professor of Materia Medica. Then, on March 8, 1879, Dr. Charles Caspari, Jr., who was later to play such an important part in the history of the Maryland College of Pharmacy, was elected Professor of Phar- macy, which chair he continued to fill until hb death on October 13, 1917. He was succeeded by Dr. Evan- der P. Kelly, class of 1902, who held the professorship until January, 1926, when it was taken over by Dr. John C. Krantz, Jr., class of 1919, who held it for one year. Andrew G. E uMez, Ph.G., B.S., M.S., Ph.D., the present E ean, now holds the professorship. Mr. William E. A. Aiken was lecturer in chemistry from 1841-1846. Prom 1856 the professorship of chemistry was filled for a number of years by Dr. Louil Steiner. On his departure from the city, he was suc- ceeded by Professor Alfred Mayer, who afterward moved to New York. He was, in turn, succeeded by a graduate of the college, E r. Helsby, who remained a few years and then entered upon the practice of medicine. The chair was then occupied by Dr. De Rosset, a man of great ability and a popular lecturer. Upon his resignation in 1873, the Board of Trustees elected the able and energetic Professor William Simon, Ph.D., M.D., to fill the vacancy. Daniel Base, Ph.D., became associated with Dr. Simon in 1895, and was elected Professor of Chemistry in 1902, which position he held until his resignation in 1920 to be- come associated with Hynson, Westcott Dunning. The teaching of the basic courses in chemistry are under the direction of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Maryland. In 1936 Glenn L. Jenkins, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Professor of Pharma- ceutical Chemistry since 1927, resigned to accept a similar position in the School of Pharmacy of the University of Minnesota. Walter H. Hartung, B.A., Ph.D., who had been research chemist for Sharp Dohme for a decade, is the present head of the de- partment. Messrs. David Stewart and William S. Reese were the lecturers in materia medica, 1844-1846. Dr. 10