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

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.13 Dedication T iiF. Senior Class dedicates the 1951 Terra Mariae to Dr. George P. Hager. Dr. Hager has been the chemistry professor of this class for their entire four years of college. At the close of their sophomore year, Dr. Hager ' s advancement to professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry assured his remaining with the class for their junior and senior years. After four years with one professor the class has come to know him very well and chooses this way of showing their respect and admiration to an excellent teacher. Dr. Hager was graduated from Baltimore City College in 1934. Because of his interests in medicine and chemistry he entered the School of Pharmacy in Septem- ber 1934. While in the school Dr. Hager was elected to the honorary society, Rho Chi. He joined the American Pharmaceutical Association in N38. in his senior year he was president of his frnternitv, Phi Delta Chi. After receiving his B.S. degree, he entered the Graduate School and in 1940 received his M.S. and in 1942 his Ph.D. from the Uni ersity of Maryland. Dr. Hager was enrolled in the University of IlliniMs for post-doctorate courses and later was employed by Eli Lilly anil Company as a research chemist. In 1945 Doctor Hager joined the faculty of the School of Pharmacy at the Uni- ersity of Maryland, as Assistant Professor of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry and in 1948 succeeded Dr. Walter Hartung as Professor of Pharmaceutical Chem- istry in both the graduate and undergraduate departments. Dr. Hager is active in many medical and chemical organirations and holds office in several of them. He is president of the Maryland Biological Society, a member of the Executive Committee of the Maryland Section of the American Chemical Society, past president of the Baltimore Branch of the American Pharmaceutical As.sociation, and a member of the committee of the subdivision of chemistry of the National Formulary. {4

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J he TERRA MARIAE 1951 LIBRARY UNI7ERSIIY OF WARYIANO cdllege pa- K. MD. . Yearhook of THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Baltimore, Maryland

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Dr. George P. Hager Professor of Chemistry 5} 2039541