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

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Nid - 1929 the broadcniiiK of its i.urni:iili.ini, the school li;is been guided largely by the standards set by American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. In 1913, courses in pharmaceutical arithmetic, and pharmaceutical law were added. The course in commercial pharmacy has been ex- panded, and all work of this nature is given by the department of economics. This depart- ment is presided over by Miss B. Olive Cole, Phar.D., LL.B., who is also Professor of Phar- maceutical Law. In W21, the curriculum was further hroaJ- ened to Mukide the general education subjects: English, romance languages, algebra, trigonom- etry, zoology, and physics. In the same year pro- visions were made or teaching bacteriology. Since then a separate department was in charge of Assistant Professor H. Bryan, ' .M.D., B.S., M.A. In 1937 Associate Profes.sor Thomas C. Grubb, A.B., Ph.D., was appointed to head the department, resigning in 1945. Professor Don- ald E. Shay, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., is the present head of the department. In 1930, a department of pharmacology was organized in the school to give instruction in bio- assaying. The equipment of this department and its maintenance was made possible throuuh the generosity of the late Captain Isaac E. Emer- M n, who endowed it liberallv. In 1938 Marvin R. Thompson, Ph.D., Emerson Professor of Pharmacology since 1930, resigned to accept the Directorship of the Warner Institute of Thera- peutic Research. Clifford W. Chapman, Ph.D., who had been with the Laboratory of Hygiene, Department of Pensions and National Health in C ' anada, which department is in charge of drug control in the Dominion, and in which he held the position of pharmacologist, is now the pres- ent head of the department. Follovvinu the reorganization of the Maryland ( ' ollegeof Pharmacy in 1856, control was vested in the offices of the College President, first and second Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, and Secre- tary, who, together with the Board of Exam- iners (three members) constituted the Board of Trustees. The first president was Mr. Thomas G. Mackenzie, 1840-1842, followed by Mr. Ben- jamin Rush Roberts from 1844 to 1871, and was followed in succession by such illustrious pharmacists as Dr. I. Brown Baxley, Dr. J. Paris Moore, Dr. John F. Hancock, Dr. loseph Rob- erts, Dr. Edwin Eareckson, Mr. William S. Thompson, Mr. Louis Dohme, and Mr. Charles Dohme (1894-1904). In 1904, it became a de- partment of the State University, 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 University of Maryland is now vested in the Board of Re- gents, of which W. P. Cole, Jr., is chairman. A Faculty Council, composed of the Dean and certain members of the Faculty control the in- ternal affairs of each separate school comprising the L ' niversity. Dr. Charles C. Caspari, Jr., became Dean of the Maryland College of Pharmacy in 1896, and continued as Dean after the merger of the Col- lege with the old LIniversity of Maryland, until his death on October 13, 1917. Dr. Daniel Base succeeded him, but because of conditions inci- dent to the World War, Dr. Base obtained leave of absence to teach in another department, and Hi. Evander Kelly was elected Dean on Sep- n2

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ceeded by Dr. Evander F. 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. An- drew G. DuMei, Ph.G., B.S., M.S., Ph.D., then held the professorship until his death. Mr. William E. A. Aiken was lecturer in chemistry from 1841-1846. From 1856 the pro- fessorship of chemistry was filled for a number of years by Dr. Louis Steiner. On his departure from the city he was succeeded by Professor Alfred Mayer, who afterwards moved to New York, and he was in turn succeeded by a gradu- ate of the College, Dr. 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 ener- getic Professor William Simon, Ph.D., M.D., to fill the vacancy. Daniel Base, Ph.D., became as- sociated with Dr. Simon in 1895, and was elect- ed Professor of Chemistry in 1902, which posi- tion he held until his resignation in 1920 to become associated with Hynson, Wescott and Dunning. The teaching of the basic courses in chemistry has been under the direction of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Maryland. In 1936 Glenn L. Jenkins, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry since 1927, resigned to accept a similar position in the School of Pharmacy of the University of Minne- sota. Walter H. Hartung, A.B., Ph.D., who had been research chemist for Sharp and Dohme for a decade, headed the department until leav- ing for a like post at the University of North Carolina in the Fall of 1948. Dr. George P. Hager, who received the Ph.D., degree in 1942 from the University of Maryland is now Profes- sor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. 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, 1856, 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 pre- decessor, he was called to a professorship in the University of Maryland. He was succeeded by Professor J. R. Winslow, in 1863, and the latter, on June 1, 1866, by Claude Baxley, M.D., who ably filled the position until 1879, when de- clining health caused him to sever his connec- tion with the College. He, in turn, was followed by J. Paris Moore, 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 professor- ship 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 Philos- ophy from the University of Maryland was ap- pointed 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 1904 - 1922 11}

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tember 30, 1918. This office was held by Dr. Kelly until December 31, 1925, when he became Secretary of the American Pharmaceutical As- sociation. Dr. Andrew G. DuMez then assumed the responsibilities of the office, and performed them with great ability until his death on Sep- tember 27, 1948. Miss B. Olive Cole served as acting dean of the School during the 1948-49 session. Dr. Noel E. Foss who received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland in 1933, and who was Assistant Dean of the School of Pharmacy, University of Illinois for two years, was appointed Dean on July 1, 1949. When the institution was first chartered in 1841, the lectures were given in the amphi- theater of the University of Maryland. Fol- lowing the reorganization in 1856, and until 1876, the College occupied halls rented for the purpose. In the early part of the latter year, the city grammar school located on Aisquith Street near Fayette Street was purchased and after radical, but needed changes, the College occupied what was then considered 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-modern in scientific appliances, and was well stocked with the nec- essary apparatus, materials 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 locat- ed in the 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 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 Pharmacy may well be proud of this splendid building, as well as of the modern equipment and apparatus which has been provided for demonstration and teach- ing purposes. From the foregoing it will be seen that the School of Pharmacy of the University of Mary- land, which began its existence as the Mary- land 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 Pharmacy, and thereby allo- cate to that branch of learning an individuality of its own. It was also one of the first schools to make analytical chemistry obligatory for grad- uation. In still other lines its leadership has been manifest, particularly in the textbooks pub- lished by members of its teaching staff. The result has been a steady growth in size and influence so that the school now holds a posi- tion in the front ranks of the teaching institu- tions of its kind in this country. 1929 - 1950 13}