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THE    PURDUE
PHARMACIST
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE PROFESSION OF PHARMACY
PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
21
FEBRUARY, 1944
No. 5
EDITORIAL STAFF
George B.  Dunn Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Betty  Lou Patton Business  Manager
ADVERTISING STAFF
Ralph Poe Advertising Manager
M.   Schnaible
CIRCULATION STAFF
Cleonice DeKay Circulation Manager
M. Fawbush, D. Tucker
FACULTY ADVISORS
H. G. DeKay, H. L. Kendall, C. O. Lee
The next few numbers of the PHARMACIST will be given over to the students
new and old who are now in school or in
the armed service. We hope our readers
will enjoy news about these persons.
—Ed.
John W. Northrup, son of Mr. Roy L.
Northrup, 608 N. Kenmore Drive, Los
Angeles, California, is a member of Navy
V-12 at Purdue University, and is due to
leave February 26. His father is with Mc-
Kesson-Robbins.
He is a member of Chi Iota Phi pharmaceutical fraternity and Phi Sigma Epsilon
social fraternity, and is engaged to Miss
Laurel Warren, of Kansas City, Missouri.
Prior to entering Purdue, he attended the
St. Louis College of Pharmacy.
Lowell Wayne "Pugsy" Mead, elected
as the boy most likely to succeed by his
hometown (Goodland) folks, has favored
the Pharmacy School with his presence
since 1941. He is a member of the A.Ph.A.,
a pledge of Alpha Kappa Lambda, and, in
addition, has one of the outstanding bands
on the campus. This "Gaydog" of the
Pharmacy School is gaining a wide reputation throughout the state—with and without his band (how is Mary?) Mead is destined to go higher and higher ( in the musical world).
STUDENT ISSUE
Roy Fredrick Knowlton hails from up
"Bahston" (Mass.) way — a suburb of
Ashland, Mass. Knowlton is better known
as "Duke", the discoverer of the 93 rd element, "Dukidium", accidentally discovered by him in qualitative analysis lab last
summer in "a queer colloidal terpene precipitate resulting from the addition of
photovatisulfate to an unknown solution."
The "Duke" arrived on campus with his
translator in August of 1942. His translator, unable to stand Lafayette weather (he
couldn't swim), went home in a "box".
However, "Duke" patched up a leaky boat
he bought from one of the town fishermen,
and with the help of the students, sign
language ,and several recognizable mutter-
ings, has gotten along very well. "Duke" is
Rush Chairman of Alpha Kappa Lambda
and is a member of the A.Ph.A. His ability
as a military strategist won him an appointment as advisor to the Commandant.
Around the Armory he is known as "General Wainwright" and "The Mad Russian."
Knowlton is confused by caution labels,
but still insists he is right by putting "Not
To Be Swallowed" labels on boxes of suppositories.
All in all, though, the Pharmacy School
wouldn't be the same without the honorable Dr. Roy Frederick Knowlton.
Joanne Deffendall is better known to her
classmates as "DefH". The rumor has it
that this Delta Gamma has a liking for
cats, so if one of you boys happen to know
of some poor stray kitten, it's always good
for a conversation. However, Deffi's hobby
is knitting; while she is fond of basketball,
too. Oh, by the way, Deffi is a transfer
from Science school—we're glad to have
you in ye old school.