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

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1904 - 1922 was appointed to head the departmeni. re- signing i ' ' • ' ' Associate Professor Donald E. Shay. B.S., M.S.. Ph.D.. is the present head ol the department. In 19.S(), a department of pharmacology was organized in the school to give instruc- tions in bio-assaying. The equipment of this department and its maintenance were made possiJ)le through the generosity of the late Oaptain Isaac h. F.merson, who endowed it lil eraily. In 19 8 Marvin R. Thompson, Ph.D.. Emerson Professor of Pharinatology since 19.S(), resigned to accept the Director- ship of the Warner Institute of Therapeutic Research. Clillord V. Chapman, Ph.D., who liad l)cen with the l ii)oratory ol Hygiene. Department ol Pensions and National Health in Cianada, which department is in charge of drug (onliol work in the Dominion, and in wiiidi Ik- hehl the position ol pharmacol- ogist . is now the present head ol ilic depart ment. Following the leorgani alion ol the Mary- l.ind College ol Pharmacy in IS-Vi. control was vested in the offices ol the College Presi- dent, lust and sfcdiul Vue Piesidents, Treas- urer, and Secretary, who, together with the Board of Examiners (three members) con- stituted the Board of Trustees. The first president was Mr. Thomas G. Mackenzie, 1840-1842, followed by Mr. Benjamin Rush Roberts from 1814 to 1871, and was followed in succession by such illustrious |)hannacists as Dr. J. Brown Baxley, Dr. J. Faris Moore, Dr. John F. Hancock, Dr. joseph Roberts, Dr. Edwin Eareckson, Mr. William S. Thomp- son, Mr. Louis Dohine, and Mr. C harles Dohme (1894-1904). In 1904, it became a department of the State I ' niversity, when the old University of Maryland was merged with the Maryland State College. With this last merger, control was transferred to the officers of the University. The control of the I ' ni- versity of Maryland is now vested in the Board of Regents, of which W. P. Cole, Jr., is chairman. -V Faculty Council, comjjosed of the Dean and certain members of the Faculty, control the internal affairs of each separate school comprising the I ' niversity. Dr. Charles C. Caspari, Jr., became Dean of the Maryland College of Pharmacy in 1896, and continued as Dean after the mer- ger of the College with the old University of Maryland, until his death on October 13, 1917. Dr. Daniel Base succeeded him, but because of conilitions incident to the World War, Dr. Base obtained leave of absence to teach in another department, and Dr. Evander Kelly was elected Dean on .September -SO, 1918. This office was heUl bv Dr. Kelly until Detember ' .U . 1925. when he became Secretary of the American Pharmaceutical Association. Dr. Andrew (i. DuMe . form- erly Associate Pharmacolgist, Hygienic Lab- oratory, U. S. Public Health Service, is the jjresent Dean. When the institution was first chartered in 184 I, the lectures were given in the amphi- theater of the University of .Maryland. Fol- lowing the reoig.iiii aiion in 185(), and until 187t , the College occupied halls rented for the purpose. In the early part of the latter year, the city giaminar school located on Aisciuith Street near Fayette Street was pur- chased and after ' aclical. but needed changes, the Ciollege tncupied what was then consid- 10

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J ckooi or l k armac Y 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 Pro- fessor William Simon, Ph.D., M.D., to fill the vacancy. Daniel Base, Ph.D., became asso- ciated with Dr. Simon in 1895, and was elected Professor of Chemistry in 1902, which posi- tion he held until his resignation in 1920 to become associated with Hynson, VVescott and Dunning. The teaching of the basic courses in chemistry has been under the direction of the Department of Chemistry of the Uni- versity of Maryland. In 19.3G Glenn L. Jenkins, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemis- try since 1927, resigned to accept a similar posi- tion in the School of Pharmacy of the Uni- versity of Minnesota. Walter H. Hartung, A.B., Ph.D., who had been research chemist for Sharp and Dohme for a decade, is the ]jresent head of the de- partment. Messrs. David Stewart and William S. Reese were the lecturers in Materia Medica 1844- 1846. Dr. Charles P. Frick was elected Professor of Materia Medica June 5, 1851), and on April 17, 1858, Professor Frick, having been called to the chair of Materia Medica in the old University of Maryland School of .Medicine, was succeeded by Professor Frank Donaldson, M.D. Like his predecessor, he was called to a professor- ship in the University of Maryland. He was sucfceded by Professor j. R. VVinslow, in 18().3, and the latter, on June 1, 186(5, by Claude Baxley, M.D., who ably filled the posi- tion until 1879, when declining health caused iiim to sever his (f)inie(tion with the College. He, in turn, was followed by I. Faris Moore, 886 - 1904 M.D., who continued in this chair until his sudden death on February 3, 1888, when Dr. David .M. R. Culbreth was elected to succeed him. Dr. Culbreth, who had always been an ardent worker for his Alma Mater, ably and efficiently filled the professorship until June 10, 1920, when he resigned from active duty and became Professor Emeritus. Dr. Charles C. Plitt of the class of 1891 served as Professor of Botany and Pharmacognosy until his death in 1933. Associate Professor Frank J. Slama, who is an alumnus of the school and who received the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Mary- land was appointed to head the department in 1936. Great advances have been made in the pro- fession of pharmacy since 1856, and it has been found necessary to enlarge the curriculum from time to time to keep abreast of this progress. In the broad- ening of its curriculum, the school has been guided -largely by the standards set by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. In 1913, courses in pharmaceutical arithme- tic, pharmaceutical Lat- in, and pharmaceutical law were added. The commercial pharmacy has been and since all work of this nature course ni expanded, has been gixen by the department of eco- nomics. This department is presided over by Miss B. Olive Cole, Phar.D., LL.B., who is also Professor of Pharmaceutical Law. In 1921, the curriculum was further broad- ened to include the general education sub- jects: English, romance languages, algebra, trigonometry, zoology, and physics. In the same year provisions were made for teaching bacteriology. Since then a separate depart- ment was in charge of Assistant Professor H. Bryan, V.M.D., B.S., M.A. In 1937 Associate Professor Thomas C. Grubb, A.B., Ph.D.,

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1922 - 1929 ered a very commodious home. However, as classes began to increase, the need was felt for more and better facilities, and in 1886, a new building was erected on the old site. This building was fitted with the then-most-mod- ern in scientific appliances, and was well stocked with the necessary apparatus, mater- ials and specimens. The College continued to occupy these quarters until it became the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Maryland, in 1904. At the present time the School of Pharmacy is located in the new Pharmacy and Dental Building at Lombard and Greene Streets, which building was made possible by an appropriation from the State of Maryland during the legislative session of 1929. The new building is a realization of a great need for adequate quarters in which to teach the honored profession of Pharmacy in Maryland. Everyone interested in Phar- macy may well be proud of this splendid building, as well as of the modern equipment and apparatus which has been provided for demonstration and teaching purposes. From the foregoing it will be seen that the School of Pharmacy of the University of Maryland, which began its existence as the Maryland College of Pharmacy, has exercised its functions as a teaching institution since 1841 except for the ten-year period 1846 to 1856. 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 with the pharmaceutical knowledge of the times. It was the first institution of its kind to establish a professorship of Phar- macy, and thereby allocate to that branch of learning an individuality of its own. It was also one of the first schools to make analytical chemistry obligatory for gradua- tion. In still other lines its leadership has been manifest, particularly in the textbooks published by 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. 1926 - 1929 1 1