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THE PURDUE PHARMACIST 3^ i~ ? fP*S PURDUE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACAL SCIENCES Vol. 61 Spring 1984 No. 1 DEAN TYLERS COLUMN Once again, I would like to relinquish this column to our retiring associate Dean Glen J. Sperandio to provide for all of us some of his memories of the School. May I take this opportunity of welcoming Dr. George R. Spratto as the new Associate Dean as of January l, 1984. There are few who do not know Dr. Spratto, I'm sure, but we shall highlight some of his many accomplishments that aused him to be appointed to this posi- ion in a future issue. DR. SPERANDIO MEMOIRS For one hundred years our School has grown and prospered, and the public celebration to recognize this achievement will reach a climax March 15-16 when we have a formal Centennial program. One of the main reasons our School has achieved its international prominence and status has been because we have always looked ahead and tried to build for the future. One seldom makes progress by looking backward. However, as one who shares in the pride of our school's growth, I would like to reminisce and think back on the almost forty years that I have been at Purdue. I'm sure some of our older alumni will recall some incidents with nostalgia and our younger ones may be amused by the comparisons between then and now. ight after World War II, beginning in 45, there was an increased number of applicants for admission to our School, but total enrollment for the four year program accommodated 250 students ♦ Dr. Glen J. Sperandio at a maximum. Our class size started to grow in 1947 and 1948 when surplus army warehouses were brought to campus and the Purdue pharmacy annex was built on a baseball field next to the pharmacy building. We remember the dispensing labs in the old annex, the pharmacology labs at the other end of the building, and the x-ray department with the responsibility for taking x-rays of all the students and staff on campus. We remember the late 1940's when we had two pharmacy students who were varsity members of the football squad on the first team, and we had justifiable pride in Norb Adams, our star halfback, and Angelo Carnaghi, the center. In the early 50's student enrollment mushroomed. Who can forget the crowded labs and classes when we had 150 students per class in facilities originally planned for classes one-third that size? — And the "Black and White Houses," the barracks for married students! We remember with sorrow the tragic death of Dr. Edwards, who collapsed while crossing campus. We remember with some amusement Doc Miller in the basement of the Administration Building where the student health center was located, and the health services provided to the student body. The Purdue University Pharmacy distributed an average of six prescriptions to every student patient and 95% of all the prescription items dispensed were prepared and manufactured in Dr. Dekay's manufacturing laboratory. At that time, prescriptions were free to the students and paid for by the University. With the advent of the antibiotics, charges were initiated and for the first time students actually operated a cash register in the senior dispensing lab. We think of the library with Miss Dun- ton as our only librarian and with the main reading room and library equipped with one long table with sixteen chairs, facing a long bench on which chemical abstracts was placed with spaces on either side of the bench for another six students. We remember the smells in the old pharmacy building; the chemistry labs with hydrogen sulfide, and ether when alkaloids were extracted; the pharmacy labs with the fragrance of arometic elixir and liquor antisepticus; Dr. Lee and his profound knowledge of pharmacy and intense dislike for smoking; the dispensing labs where cod liver oil emulsions perfumed the air; and of course, Dr. Dekay's manufacturing lab where raspberry syrup was made from fresh raspberries as an annual event. We remember the inspection trips to Abbott, Parke-Davis, Upjohn, Eli Lilly, and those few trips to Lederle and Squibb in New York. One class will never forget the trip to New York when it looked as if the entire group would be quarantined in the hotel because a student had chicken-pox (which turned out to be an allergic reaction to penicil- continued on page two THE PURDUE PHARMACIST will be published three times per year (Spring, Summer, Fall). Subscription price for the three issues is $2.00. Address all correspondence to The Purdue Pharmacist, School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
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Title | Purdue pharmacist, 1984, v. 61, no. 1 |
Subjects (MeSH) | Education, Pharmacy |
Creators | Purdue University. School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences |
Purdue Identification Number | PHAR00611 |
Subjects (LCSH) | Pharmacy--Study and teaching (Higher) |
Genre | Periodical |
Coverage | United States |
Date of Original | 1984 |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
ISSN | 0033-4529 |
Collection Title | Purdue Pharmacist |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
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Transcript | THE PURDUE PHARMACIST 3^ i~ ? fP*S PURDUE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACAL SCIENCES Vol. 61 Spring 1984 No. 1 DEAN TYLERS COLUMN Once again, I would like to relinquish this column to our retiring associate Dean Glen J. Sperandio to provide for all of us some of his memories of the School. May I take this opportunity of welcoming Dr. George R. Spratto as the new Associate Dean as of January l, 1984. There are few who do not know Dr. Spratto, I'm sure, but we shall highlight some of his many accomplishments that aused him to be appointed to this posi- ion in a future issue. DR. SPERANDIO MEMOIRS For one hundred years our School has grown and prospered, and the public celebration to recognize this achievement will reach a climax March 15-16 when we have a formal Centennial program. One of the main reasons our School has achieved its international prominence and status has been because we have always looked ahead and tried to build for the future. One seldom makes progress by looking backward. However, as one who shares in the pride of our school's growth, I would like to reminisce and think back on the almost forty years that I have been at Purdue. I'm sure some of our older alumni will recall some incidents with nostalgia and our younger ones may be amused by the comparisons between then and now. ight after World War II, beginning in 45, there was an increased number of applicants for admission to our School, but total enrollment for the four year program accommodated 250 students ♦ Dr. Glen J. Sperandio at a maximum. Our class size started to grow in 1947 and 1948 when surplus army warehouses were brought to campus and the Purdue pharmacy annex was built on a baseball field next to the pharmacy building. We remember the dispensing labs in the old annex, the pharmacology labs at the other end of the building, and the x-ray department with the responsibility for taking x-rays of all the students and staff on campus. We remember the late 1940's when we had two pharmacy students who were varsity members of the football squad on the first team, and we had justifiable pride in Norb Adams, our star halfback, and Angelo Carnaghi, the center. In the early 50's student enrollment mushroomed. Who can forget the crowded labs and classes when we had 150 students per class in facilities originally planned for classes one-third that size? — And the "Black and White Houses," the barracks for married students! We remember with sorrow the tragic death of Dr. Edwards, who collapsed while crossing campus. We remember with some amusement Doc Miller in the basement of the Administration Building where the student health center was located, and the health services provided to the student body. The Purdue University Pharmacy distributed an average of six prescriptions to every student patient and 95% of all the prescription items dispensed were prepared and manufactured in Dr. Dekay's manufacturing laboratory. At that time, prescriptions were free to the students and paid for by the University. With the advent of the antibiotics, charges were initiated and for the first time students actually operated a cash register in the senior dispensing lab. We think of the library with Miss Dun- ton as our only librarian and with the main reading room and library equipped with one long table with sixteen chairs, facing a long bench on which chemical abstracts was placed with spaces on either side of the bench for another six students. We remember the smells in the old pharmacy building; the chemistry labs with hydrogen sulfide, and ether when alkaloids were extracted; the pharmacy labs with the fragrance of arometic elixir and liquor antisepticus; Dr. Lee and his profound knowledge of pharmacy and intense dislike for smoking; the dispensing labs where cod liver oil emulsions perfumed the air; and of course, Dr. Dekay's manufacturing lab where raspberry syrup was made from fresh raspberries as an annual event. We remember the inspection trips to Abbott, Parke-Davis, Upjohn, Eli Lilly, and those few trips to Lederle and Squibb in New York. One class will never forget the trip to New York when it looked as if the entire group would be quarantined in the hotel because a student had chicken-pox (which turned out to be an allergic reaction to penicil- continued on page two THE PURDUE PHARMACIST will be published three times per year (Spring, Summer, Fall). Subscription price for the three issues is $2.00. Address all correspondence to The Purdue Pharmacist, School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. |
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