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

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but we somehow managed to streak through the course. Drug Assay was nothing new and neither were the techniques employed in the lab. Many of the students ran assays with an adding machine using a pencil as an indicator. Pharmacognosy sits high on the shelf of phar- maceutical knowledge, and to most of us. the shelf would have been the perfect place for it. Dr. Slama ' s stimulating lectures prompted many stu- dents to sign up for the pre-graduate program and cosmetics the following year. Economics introduced us to the Leavitt system of disorganization, a s steni we would encounter again whether we wanted to or not. As we all can recall. History of Pharmacy was only a one credit course, but one would ha e never known it from the amount of work entailed. The Senior year was welcomed wholeheartedly by thirty-nine members of the original class, plus fifteen refugees, who like Odysseus had wandered far and long to reach the final obstacle. The slower pace which most of us were anticipating in the Senior year never seemed to materialize. C.M.P. proved to be a very trying course to many of us: that is. the few who had somehow man- aged to forget the one or two things that Dr. Doorenbos told us to review. Pharmacology also proved to be quite an obstacle to many of us. while the memorizers. a few of the bovs in par- ticular, had a field day. After a day of frog lab, the boys looked like they just spent a hard day ' s work in the coal mines, while the girls took advantage of their femininity and turned on the waterworks. It was quite enthralling for the bug student to be able to tell his parents and friends what type of cockroach or skunk was dwelling in their homes. Marketing and Accounting were very worthwhile courses to those of us who desired a doctorate in those fields. Both courses were so well organized and presented that the text book w as not essential. Hospital Pharmacy allowed the students, if nothing else, a chance to catch up on their sleep. The pre-graduate students, on the other hand, had quite a struggle doing two hun- dred calculus problems for homework, while look- ing for the missing shadow on the building. Dr. Ballman was well received and appreciated by those students who were fortunate enough to have had her. Pharmacy brought us into contact with com- mercial products and drugs that we didn t realize existed. It was noted that the practicing ph si- cians and members of the state board never heard of them either, but anyway, they were important for illustration purposes. The long tenure had finally ended, and we would soon leave the realm of academic life to enter the portals of another cycle of our being — one for which we were excellently prepared. The hardships that we underwent, the fun that we had. and the lasting friendships that we made will always dwell in our thoughts. A place in our heart w ill alw ays be reserved for our fond remem- brance of our days at the University of Maryland Pharmacy School. 22

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CLASS HISTORY The month of September 19.S9 fuuiid seventy- seven students eagerly antici|jating and prognos- ticating the prospects of a career in pharmacy. It. however, did not take long for mans of the freshmen to realize that their talents lie in a fieltl non-related to pharmacy and they politely exited from the Greene Street scene. It did not take long for the students to make new friends and segregate into factions which lasted for the duration. The Freshman year |)rovided many dilliculties and pitfalls for us. Our liberal arts education lasted from 9:00 to 12:00 three days a week, and many of us are still enigmatized as to why the 11:00 to 12:00 section in Knglish always received the highest grades on exams. Mathematics was best appreciated by those students who wore skirts, while the rest of us are wondering how we got an A in summer school with a lower aver- age than we failed with during the regular -semester. Foreign languages also played a role in augmenting our liberal arts education. Zoology was taught to us very capabh bv Dr. Costello. and the tests were extremely fair, espe- cially the ones that were tlic same as the previous year ' s. One student was so excited at the prospect of working with his cat in the lab that he fainted ■when he saw it. Chemistry brought us into con- tact with a man who was to receive the admira- tion and respect of the class. Dr. Miller taught a stiff course, but his friendliness and helpfulness spurred many of us on to heights that we didn ' t feel we could achieve. Talking about Dr. Miller ' s fineness, brings to mind our laboratory instructor at that time. If ever a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde combination were portrayed it was certainly in this lab. Between the familiar cry Out of the lab and Where did you get these results, we certainly had our hands full. Speech yet posed another problem, one of ex- pression and exclamation before an audience. This is an art which many of us have not as yet mastered. Our inauguration into pharmacy was given to us by Mr. Phil Levine. a man whom we came to know much better during the Sophomore year. Following a difficult first year, we ran into a relatively impossible Sophomore year. At this stage of our intellectual metamorphosis, we some- how got the idea the executioners were serious about terminating our scholastic life. In Q.A. lab, we not only applied the law of mass action, but we also applied some less gen- erally accepted laws of our own. Fven though some students were hesitant about using these factors, the pro ' s, who were taking the course the second time, convinced us of their validity. We all discovered the significance of those physics problems lo our everyday life. As phar- macists, wf now realize the prac ticality and im- porlatice of knowing the angle at which a fish at ihi ' bottom of a lake woijjcl luivr to look in order to see the setting sun. Official Pharmacy lab and lecture made us realize that we were indeed in Pharmacy School. ot oidy did we have to wade in and out of the classroom, but we couldnt see the blackboard through the snow. Mr. Levine perhaps gave us the biggest laugh of our four- car term when he described a supjjosed attcmjjt on Dr. Kstabrook ' s life. Organic and jihysiology were both interesting and essential courses. Organic was interesting because of the professor, and physiology was interesting in spite of the professor. Dr. Miller deserves a lot of credit for putting five pages of notes on one index card, and for staying out of our explosive lab. Our sorrow for Dr. Costello, who had broken his hand, was quick lived after receiving our first test grades. The lab was equally as pleasant as the lecture. Most of us thought we were now half way through our schooling; we found out later that we still had three halves to go. Dr. Zenker, with a year ' s experience behind him. planted both our feet solidly on the ultra- centrifuge and gave us a whirl. Between that and the Krebs cycle we were really going around in circles. In pharmacy. Dr. Shangraw took over where Alfred Martin left off. Practical pharmacy was taught to us by Tacharu Shangraw. whose ob- jective appeared to be how to win friends and influence people. Although we couldn ' t tell our customers in the drugstore how to us Seidlitz Powders, they were nevertheless delighted to learn its interspace porosity. Pharmacy lab. however, did provide the much needed background in the preparation of various dosage forms. Dr. Shay ' s microbiology course formally ended about six weeks after it began, when Becker et al. took over. Of all the germs we may have caught that year, nothing hit us harder than Pasturella, 21

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R. DelCastillio. Or. C. Ic liniow-ki. K. V nn. CLASS OF 1964 This class of diiIn Im i iiicri i the first to go through the School of I ' haniiaiv in the Profes- sional Program. After the loMg-a«ailefl June conies these two will ha e dniplete(l two full years on the Baltimore Campus and are well aware of wa s and means of pharmac . Ronald K. DelCaslilho olilairicd his pre-|)liarma( educa- tion at American I ni ersit and I niversit of .Mar larid. ( )llege Park. Hiihard 1 . nn re- ceived his pre-pharmac at the I niversit of •Maryland. College Park. 23