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

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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}

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