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This is a historic time AT THE COLLEGE AS WE CELEBRATE

OUR SESQUICENTENNIAL THIS NOVEMBER. 150 In this issue of Script, you will learn more about the people who helped the College get its start and continue to help us evolve today. During this transformational time at the College, we continue to build on our historic strengths as we prepare for an exciting future. We are continuing the work of our founders as we take bold steps to become globally prominent in pharmacy and health care education, interprofessional patient-centered care, and collaborative research.

�is fall, we implemented a new Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum with an integrated bachelor’s degree. We have also formed a collaborative program with the University of Missouri-St. Louis College of Business Admin-istration to allow our student pharmacists the ability to work toward a Master of Business Administration degree or a Graduate Certi�cate in Business Administration at UMSL while still enrolled at the College. We are looking to develop similar collaborative programs with other institutions in relevant areas.

Utilizing our location in one of the world’s �nest biomedical research centers, the College is building partnerships with premier health care and educational institutions to establish cutting-edge research and patient-care initiatives. We are also �nalizing discussions with health systems and community pharmacists to signi�cantly expand our impact on transitions of care and link hospital and community pharmacists. �e College has co-founded the Center for Interprofessional Education with Goldfarb School of Nursing and Washington University School of Medicine to jointly

educate students in the health professions to provide evidence-based, patient-centered interprofessional care.

To better accomplish our bold vision, the College has also implemented a new organiza-tional structure that includes two schools: the School of Pharmacy and the School of Arts and Sciences. We have new leadership at the College, including a new dean for the School of Pharmacy: Dr. Bruce Canaday, a national leader in pharmacy.

Lastly, we have begun the largest construction project in our history. We are expecting completion of our 213,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art academic and research building and library in May 2015. We are also anxious to begin a second phase of construction, which will include a second residence hall, a new dining facility, a recreation center, a student center, and a gymnasium. �is construction will help transform the College into a global leader in health care and pharmacy education.

Historic changes are happening at the College as we usher in this new era.

Our enhanced curriculum and collaborative degree programs, new research programs, new international and local community initiatives, new organizational structure, and new construction project are allowing us to build on our past as we strive to meet our vision.

I want to thank all of you for the many ways you support the College. Our continued success could not be possible without you, and I look forward to the next chapter in our rich history!

FOR 150 YEARS, we have been educating

future pharmacy innovators and practitioners who are

impacting health care locally, nationally, and globally.

We owe our success to the leaders and innovators

who have helped shape the College over the years.

150JOHN A. PIEPER, PRESIDENT

ST. LOUIS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

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CLASS NOTES

Editor Sheila Haar Siegel

Designers Julie Conway

Colleen Krutewicz Nick Smith

Contributing Writers Stacy Austerman

Brad Brown Blaire Leible Garwitz Stephanie Ho�mann

Mary Reis Sheila Haar Siegel

Proofreader Nancy Busch

Class Notes Kristine Bryant

Chairman, Board of Trustees Jane E. Arnold

President John A. Pieper, Pharm.D.

Vice President, Advancement Brett T. Schott

Assistant Vice President, Marketing and Communications

Beth Keserauskis

President, Alumni Association Robert Salter ’70

Director, Alumni Relations Stephanie Ho�mann

Script magazine is published three times a year for alumni, students, and friends of the College. Questions or comments

may be addressed to Sheila Haar Siegel at shaar@stlcop.edu.

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Registration IncarnationsThe first courses at STLCOP have evolved into something far beyond early students’ expectations. Yet they remain the foundation of courses still in existence today.

BY BRAD BROWN

Founding FamiliesThree families, united by their passion of independent pharmacy and St. Louis College of Pharmacy, explain why generations of families plant roots at STLCOP.

BY STACY AUSTERMAN

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2The Making of STLCOPThe apothecary from Kentucky who passed through St. Louis on his way to the Gold Rush who opened a drugstore who eventually founded St. Louis Collge of Pharmacy.

BY SHEILA HAAR SIEGEL

Places and SpacesSTLCOP has moved seven times since 1864. Yet its roots have never strayed from being at the center of health care, education, and its St. Louis home.

BY BRAD BROWN

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People Who Changed the Course of STLCOPThe College owes its success to the vision, hard work, and sheer dedication of many people. Here are a few of the pioneers who are part of its rich history.

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16150 Things We Love About STLCOPThe good, great, and distinctly STLCOP things that make us who we are, tell us where we have been, and remind us of the possibilities for what lies ahead.

BY SHEILA HAAR SIEGEL

For the History BooksFor 150 years, the College has been gather-ing, talking, and aspriring to be a leader in pharmacy education. And we can prove it. Here is how we have shared the journey.

BY SHEILA HAAR SIEGEL

Campus Traditions Then and NowA dusty dive into the archives of alumni hangouts, happenings, and perhaps some memories you’d forgotten (or wished you had).

BY STEPHANIE HOFFMANN

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The apothecary from Kentucky who passed through St. Louis on his way to the California Gold Rush who opened a drugstore in St. Louis who eventually founded St. Louis College of Pharmacy.

When truth is stranger than fiction, as it is in this tale, the result is the idea of a li�le college that wouldn’t give up. Along the way, it could have easily fallen by the wayside—it almost did a couple of times. But, as its founders imagined, anything was possible. Even a great American college of pharmacy.

As a 13-year-old boy growing up in Galena, Illinois, in 1836, Eugene Massot worked as “an apprentice” in the local pharmacy. At the same time, the first pharmaceutical courses were being taught by, and for, physicians at Saint Louis University Medical School. In those days, apothecaries didn’t a�end classes, and there were no formal degrees in pharmacy in the Midwest. Appren-tices, like Massot, learned their cra� on their own from apothecaries, during a time when anyone with a glimmer of aspiration could open a drugstore and sell home remedies and medicines. At first, apprentices would start out running errands, stocking shelves,

and scrubbing floors until they learned how to compound medicine and tend to the counter—three years for most young men. Most apprentices also learned basic reading, writing, and arithmetic at night a�er the store closed.

A�er completing his apprenticeship, instead of heading back to his home-town of Shipinsport, Kentucky, Massot followed the Gold Rush to California (luckily, for the College, he didn’t strike it rich). He must have liked what he saw when he passed through St. Louis because, in 1851, he returned.

Massot opened his own drugstore in the city in 1852, the same year the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA) was formed. He became closely involved with the national association and helped breathe new life into the St. Louis Pharmaceutical Association three years a�er its founding in 1857. Local apothecaries had begun to meet

in the back rooms of owners’ drugstores to learn about botany, chemistry, and other pharmaceutical topics from physi-cians and each other. Massot, who was self-taught, wanted other apothecaries to have the education he never had. In 1860, a commi�ee of apothecaries and physicians was appointed by the St. Louis Pharmaceutical Association to consider opening a college of pharmacy. Massot topped the list but a�er the Civil War began, everything else was put on hold.

Finally, toward the end of the war, the group met again. On November 11, 1864, at 7:30 p.m., St. Louis College of Pharmacy was founded in the hall of the St. Louis Medical College. Massot, along with four other medical colleagues, went about dra�ing a charter, constitution, and bylaws. He was the only apothecary on the commi�ee. Four years later, he was in the College’s first graduating class of 17 men.

A�er years of working to establish the College, Massot served as the first chair-man of the Board of Trustees in 1864 and again a�er he graduated. But it took the work of Massot once more to turn a short-lived dream into full-fledged reality. In 1869, just one year a�er earning his degree, Massot’s plans for St. Louis College of Pharmacy ran up against sparse student enrollment. The College was forced to suspend instruction during 1869-1870. But Massot persuaded the APhA to hold its annual convention in St. Louis in 1871 and garnered enough interest and support to boost enrollment. In 1871, the College resumed classes.

And so began the oldest college of pharmacy west of the Mississippi River.Massot died shortly therea�er, on Valentine’s Day, in 1871, at 48. He didn’t get to see the College come back into session. Yet it was this humble, single-minded man who set the course for St. Louis College of Pharmacy’s 150-year history.

The Making of STLCOPThe Making of By Sheila Haar Siegel

1764

The city of St. Louis is founded by Chouteau and Laclede.

1809

The first pharmacy in St. Louis opens.

1823

St. Louis becomes a city and elects William Carr Lane, a physician, as mayor.

1852

The American Pharmaceutical Association (now American Pharmacists Association) is founded in Philadelphia.

1854

The St. Louis Pharmaceutical Association is established on May 25.

1860

A committee of apothecaries and physicians is appointed by the St. Louis Pharmaceutical Association to consider establishing a college of pharmacy in St. Louis.

1866

St. Louis College of Pharmacy becomes the first chartered college of pharmacy west of the Mississippi River.

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1861

The Civil War begins in Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12.

1865

The first College botany course is taught at Shaw’s Garden (now the Missouri Botanical Garden).

1865

In October, the first three College faculty members—Arthur Wagemier, Jeremiah Smith Bois Alleyne, and James O’Gallagher—begin teaching chemistry, materia medica, and pharmacy in a room of the St. Louis Medical College.

1865

The Civil War ends in April.

1867

The College outgrows its first location and begins renting lecture rooms at the Tilford Building, located on 4th Street (across from the Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis).

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FOR THE LAST 87 YEARS, St. Louis College of Pharmacy has called the corner of Euclid Avenue and Parkview Place home. Since then, the surrounding area has become one of the world’s premier patient- care and research centers. That same spirit of interprofessional education and collaboration was evident at the College’s first home, the St. Louis Medical College. In the last 150 years, the College has had six other addresses. Many of those locations, like today’s home, are intertwined with iconic, internationally recognized St. Louis landmarks. Here are the places and spaces of St. Louis College of Pharmacy.

As excavation began for the footing of the Eads Bridge across the Mississippi River, the growing College’s first move was to the center of St. Louis. Classes for the 1867 session

were held at 18 N. 4th Street, right across the street from the Old Courthouse. The building was owned by William Tilford, a druggist who was more widely known

as a photographer and a retailer of photography equipment. The College also conducted some of its classes a few blocks south at the O’Fallon Dispensary at

615 Clark Avenue. The spot where the Tilford Building once stood is now green space connecting the Old Courthouse to the Gateway Arch. The site of the O’Fallon Dispensary

was cleared in the mid-1960s to make way for Busch Memorial Stadium. It is now Ballpark Village, an entertainment venue across the street from Busch Stadium.

The first instruction at St. Louis College of Pharmacy was held in a room on

the fourth floor of the St. Louis Medical

College on the northeast corner of 7th and Clark in downtown St. Louis. The medical college had been established in 1835 by Saint Louis University

but became independent in 1855. When St. Louis College of Pharmacy was formed, the building was commonly referred to as “Pope’s College,” a

reference to Dean Charles Alexander Pope, who founded St. Louis Medical College. In 1891, St. Louis Medical College merged with the Missouri Medical College to form Washington University School of Medicine.

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The need for more space once again found the College on the move in 1871. The chosen location

was two rooms on the third floor at 208 N. 6th Street in downtown St. Louis. The building was

known as the main sales room and warehouse for Pullis Brothers, the oldest ironworks company in the city. Rooms 11 and 12 in the building were transformed into the College’s lecture hall and

meeting room, which were rented for $20 a month. Students and professors could easily arrive by street cars. The only remnants of this building can be found in the surviving Pullis Brothers

cast iron storefronts across the Midwest.

With a growing enrollment, the College expanded into two rooms at the Insurance

Exchange Building on the southeast corner of Broadway and Olive in downtown St. Louis in 1873. Rent on the fourth floor was $300 a year.

The College shared the floor with real estate agents, builders, artists, and an entomologist.

The Insurance Exchange’s most famous resident was architect George Barne�. At the time, he had just completed work on buildings and structures

in Tower Grove Park. His best-known works include the Old Courthouse and structures

in the Missouri Botanical Garden, where the College maintained a medicinal plant garden

at the time (and for many years later). Barne� also designed the Missouri Governor’s Mansion

in Jefferson City, Missouri. The Insurance Exchange site is now the St. Louis Place Building.

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1869

Instruction at the College is suspended due to low enrollment.

1871

STLCOP resumes instruction.

1871

The College moves to its third location: the Pullis Building at 208 N. 6th Street.

1873

The College moves to its fourth location at the southeast corner of Broadway and Olive.

1881

Esther Wightman is the first woman to attend the College.

1884

The College moves to its fifth location: 412 S. 6th Street.

1879

The College’s first pharmaceutical lab is built.

1881

The Missouri Board of Pharmacy is established.

1879

The Missouri Pharmaceutical Association is established.

1875

The St. Louis College of Pharmacy Alumni Association is founded.

1868

The first class of 17 men graduate from the College.

1892

Augusta Bock is the first female graduate of STLCOP.

1892

The College moves to its sixth location: its own building at 2108-2010 Lucas Street. Receipts for the year were $39,936.80. Disbursements were $36,942.15.

1904

The World’s Fair is held in St. Louis.

1904

Henry Whelpley becomes dean.

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In 1884, the College moved into its own building at 412 S. 6th Street. The building was owned by Board of Trustees Vice President Charles Gietner, who charged $85 a month in rent. This was the College’s first location outside of the riverfront business district. The building was next to Mesker Brothers Iron Works, another of the well-known businesses that installed cast iron storefronts across the country. A rooming house across the street from the College might have been home for several students.

The new building was touted in the College’s Bulletin as one of the most complete and convenient of its kind in the country and the first dedicated to pharmaceutical education in Missouri. Each of the three floors contained large, inclined lecture rooms allowing students in the back row an unobstructed view of the professor and his demonstrations. These were also the first lecture halls in the College’s history where students could sit in chairs instead of on benches. The first floor also had an area for offices, a reading room, and a private laboratory for the professor of pharmacy. The pharmacy and microscope laboratories were on the second floor, and the chemical laboratory on the third. Electronic bells, another new feature of the building, rang to signal the end of class periods.

A¦er the College moved out, the building was later known as the Hoe§en Laboratory Co. It survived until 1964, when it was razed to make way for Busch Memorial Stadium.

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The College’s sixth home on Lucas Place (now Locust Street) near 21st Street was the first building constructed exclusively for the College. Classes began there in 1892. The College building was three stories tall, one for each of the courses: materia medica (therapeutics), pharmacy, and chemistry. The basement housed a large meeting room, men’s locker room, and a museum. On the first floor, the board room was repurposed as a ladies’ room (a special lounge and study area for female students) when school was in session. That level also boasted a 250-seat lecture hall, microscope laboratory, and several offices. The pharmaceutical laboratory was on the second floor along with another large lecture hall. The top floor contained a chemical laboratory, storage area, and lecture hall. All of the rooms surrounded a large atrium, which, according to promotional material of the time, “admits light and air [and] is an important feature of the building.” Other features included electric lighting, steam heat, and a filtered water system for use in the laboratory.

The College paid $8,750 for the lot. The building was paid for through $15,000 in donations and a $25,000 loan from Franklin Bank of St. Louis. The building was demolished in 1944, and the area is now a parking lot for the Schlafly Tap Room.

A golden spade placed in the dirt on Feb. 15, 1927, by College President E.H. Wolff (chairman of the Board of Trustees who, as College protocol dictated at the time, served as its president) marked the next major step in the College’s growth. In just a few months, the empty lot at the corner of Euclid Avenue and Parkview Place would turn into the College’s new home, renamed Jones Hall in 2003. Shortly a¦er the 1927 ceremony, a story in the College’s quarterly Bulletin stated the building “is planned to make the College of Pharmacy the center of pharmacy in this city and vicinity.” Barnes Hospital was already in the neighborhood, having opened its doors several decades earlier. Also in 1927, Jewish Hospital accepted its first patients in its new location several blocks from the College.

The College purchased the space for $24,000 and then commenced on a $300,000 fundraising drive, which included $15,000 in student contributions. Construction moved quickly, and the building was completed in time for fall classes.

It would be another 60 years before the next major addition was added to the main academic building. In the spring of 1987, the O.J. Cloughly Alumni Library opened a new addition to the south side of the building. The library was very popular with students. Within six months, there was a 100 percent increase in average nightly a�endance. A library newsle�er from that time noted the main complaints were over the temperature in the new addition. Students reported being both too hot and too cold.

Jones Hall, as it stands now, was formed in 2003. A $42 million construction project included a three-story addition above the library and the complete remodeling of the existing building. Work began at 3 a.m. so as not to disturb the first classes at 8 a.m. The remodel came with plenty of surprises according to project manager Chris Gocal.

“You run into new challenges every day,” he told Script in 2003. “A column that’s 4 inches off, duct work that isn’t on the blueprints… all the while you’re working in an occupied building with faculty and students. These challenges only make the job more interesting.”

The 2003 remodeling also saw Parkview Place converted into a pedestrian path and the addition of the eight-floor Residence Hall.

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1908

The College offers a commercial pharmacy course, the first of its kind.

1917

The United States enters World War I.

1904

The College begins full-time instruction during the day.

1906

The College helps establish a St. Louis chapter of the American Pharmaceutical Association.

1908

The College offers an optional four-year course of study leading to a pharmaceutical chemist degree (Ph.C.).

1906

The Federal Pure Food and Drug Act requires drug manufacturers to list product ingredients on labels.

1906

STLCOP establishes merit scholarships for students that are sponsored by Mallinckrodt, Meyer Brothers, and J.S. Merrell.

1926

The Board of Trustees purchases property on the southeast corner of Euclid and Parkview Place for $24,000 in, what was then, an emerging medical center in St. Louis.

1927

STLCOP moves to its seventh and current location at Parkview Place and Euclid Ave. A complete model pharmacy is built on the first floor, so students can learn how to operate a drug store as part of the commercial pharmacy course.

1927

The St. Louis College of Pharmacy Medicinal Plant Garden is established at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

1929

The College’s first fraternity, Chi Iota Phi, is formed. Student organizations—the Microns and the Garden Club—are formed.

1931

Students acquire artifacts and build exhibits for a new pharmacy museum, located on the fourth floor and, later, in the library.

1932

A four-year Bachelor of Science degree replaces the three-year Ph.G. Bacteriology, English, German, mathematics, and physics are added to the curriculum.

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PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE COURSE

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Enno Sander, one of the key founders of St. Louis College of Pharmacy, was born to an upper-class German family in Trinum on February 27, 1822. He received a first-class education at the University of Berlin, and later earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Halle.

In 1852, Sander arrived in St. Louis and became a high school mathematics teacher. He also opened the first of three drug stores he owned in 1853. During the Civil War, he served with distinction as a quartermaster at the rank of major for the Union. Sander became an advocate for a pharmacy school in St. Louis and became one of the school’s original founders. He was second vice president of the College’s Board of Trustees from 1864-65 and then

president from 1865-66. He served two terms as a member of the board in 1866-67 and from 1868-75. In 1868, the College awarded him an honorary degree. He began his tenure as professor of materia medica in 1871 and became the College’s second dean in 1872.

Sander’s pivotal contribution to the College occurred in 1871 when he helped lead the effort to reorganize it. He also helped regulate pharmacy licensure and draft legislation to establish the Missouri State Board of Pharmacy.

In 1902, he was awarded the title of emeritus professor of materia medica and botany, the first person to receive that title from the College. Sander left $1,000 to the College in his will.

Henry Milton Whelpley was born in Harmonia, Michigan, on May 24, 1861. During the summers in high school, he worked in drugstores, learning his life’s work.

On October 10, 1881, Whelpley began attending St. Louis College of Pharmacy. He registered for all of the optional classes in his junior year and still earned the highest grade point average in the class.

After serving as a pharmacy manager in Mine LaMotte, Missouri, Whelpley returned to St. Louis. He served as an editor for the St. Louis Druggist, then for the National Druggist and, ultimately, for the Meyer Brothers Druggist, which he edited for 38 years. In 1884, Whelpley returned to his alma mater as an instructor in microscopy. In 1887, he was promoted to professor of microscopy and formed a local society to advance its study.

Whelpley played a leadership role in shaping organiza-tions such as the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the National Board of Pharmacy, and the American Council on Pharmacy Education. He enjoyed a lifelong involvement with the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association (MPA) and was elected president of the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA) in 1901.

Whelpley became dean of the College in 1904 and transformed it into a college of pharmacy for the 20th century. He moved it from a part-time evening program into a full-time day program. He continued to teach, first as professor of pharmacognosy in 1918, then as professor of physiology, pharmacognosy, and materia medica in 1922. On June 26, 1926, after attending an MPA meeting in Kansas City, Whelpley died.

The College may not have survived the Great Depression if not for Charles Edward Caspari, dean of the College from 1926 to 1942. Caspari, known to his friends as “Cas,” was the son of Charles Caspari Jr., who served as dean of the Maryland College of Pharmacy and as executive secretary of the American Pharmaceutical Association for 25 years. The younger Caspari grew up in Baltimore and earned a doctorate in chemistry from Johns Hopkins University and, after a stint at Columbia University in New York, joined the St. Louis College of Pharmacy faculty in 1903. He succeeded Henry Milton Whelpley as dean in 1926.

During Caspari’s years as dean, the College built its permanent home at Euclid Avenue and Parkview Place, and the College’s curriculum expanded to better prepare students

for the growing complexities and advances in American pharmacy.

The Great Depression took its toll on the College and, by 1941, its debts had mounted to over $100,000. Caspari worked tirelessly with the Board of Trustees and the College’s donors to pay off the debt. Despite the long hours he worked during this time, Caspari refused to accept any of his salary as dean. During the most difficult financial times, he often made substantial contributions from his own personal savings to keep the College running.

Caspari became ill during the spring semester of 1942 and was confined to his home. Undaunted, he continued to direct the affairs of the school and met with the faculty a few days before his death on June 9, 1942.

Phyllis (Neu) Sarich ’46 worked for her father, Philip Neu ’16/’20, at his pharmacy in South St. Louis. She learned the art of pharmacy at her father’s side, grinding powders, rolling pills and mixing syrups, ointments, and tinctures to serve her father’s patients. This early training led to a pharmacy career that spanned more than 70 years, 52 of them spent at the College as its first full-time female instructor.

A few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Sarich enrolled in the College into a class of two women and 12 men. Due to World War II, her class consolidated with the following class and they pursued the accelerated curriculum. Sarich thrived in pharmacy school and became interested in the study of bacteriology, taught by George Reddish. After

graduation, she took a position at Lambert Pharmacal Company working with her mentor, where they conducted tests on a product that became known as “Listerine.” In 1946, she accepted a teaching position at the College as instructor of bacteriology.

In addition to being the first and only full-time female faculty member until the mid-1960s, Sarich was a founding member of the sorority Lambda Kappa Sigma in 1951. In 1970, she was elected as the first female president of the Alumni Association. In 2009, Sarich received the Loyalty Award in gratitude for her exceptional commitment and service to the College and the Alumni Association.

She also became the College’s first professor emerita. She died in 2011.

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1937

Missouri licensure law requires pharmacists to be graduates of a school or college of pharmacy.

1932

The American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE) is founded.

1938

The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is enacted.

1940

St. Louis College of Pharmacy is accredited for the first time by ACPE.

1941

The United States enters World War II.

1944

The College initiates an accelerated program. The traditional four-year program could be completed in two years and eight months with students attending three 16-week semesters per year.

1945

The College is renamed “St. Louis College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences.”

1947

The student body secures 100% membership in the student chapter of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the College, one of the first and few schools to ever do so.

1946

The College launches a new course in animal health pharmacy, the first of its kind in the nation.

1951

Lambda Kappa Sigma, the College’s first pharmaceutical sorority, is established.

1951

The O.J. Cloughly Alumni Library is dedicated.

1952

A Master of Science degree in industrial pharmacy is launched.

1955

A Master of Science degree in hospital pharmacy is launched.

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During his 22-year tenure, Charles Rabe ’39 steered St. Louis College of Pharmacy through a period of expansion and redevelopment at a time of rapidly evolving changes in the pharmacy profession.

Born in Steeleville, Illinois, Rabe earned a bachelor’s degree from the College and then worked as a pharmaceutical sales representative for Merck, Sharp & Dohme and later at Warner-Lambert. He joined the faculty of the College in 1943. From 1948 to 1950, Rabe took a leave of absence to earn a master’s degree from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy before returning to STLCOP. In 1954, he left the College to serve as assistant to the secretary of the American Pharmaceutical Association in Washington, D.C. He then worked in various executive positions at a division of Pfizer

before becoming the first full-time president of the College in 1961.

Under his leadership, the College campus grew from one building on less than an acre to four buildings on five acres. There were revisions to the College curriculum, increased enrollment, increased number of faculty and staff along with improved benefits, and greater library holdings. The College also received accreditation by the North Central Association, and the endowment and reserve funds grew. A residence hall was named for Rabe in the early 1980s. In 1989, Rabe received the Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to the College from the Alumni Association. He and his wife, Martha, were inducted as lifetime members of the Mortar & Pestle Society in 1996. Rabe died on March 30, 2000.

In 2010, John A. Pieper became the fourth president of St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Pieper brought a great deal of expertise to his role, having spent his entire adulthood in academia. A native of Colorado, he received a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from the University of Colorado, a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Wyoming and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Pharmacy.

Prior to his appointment at the College, Pieper served as professor and dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of New Mexico, with concurrent appointments as vice president for research and deputy executive vice president at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque. He had previously worked at the University

of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Colorado. Pieper is also a past president of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

At St. Louis College of Pharmacy, Pieper has worked to position the College to be at the forefront of pharmacy education by creating a transformational strategic plan.

A few of his many accomplishments include an enhanced curriculum that includes three years of undergraduate work followed by four years in a professional doctoral program with an integrated bachelor’s degree. Under his leadership, the College is also partnering with other premier institutions to establish cutting-edge research centers. In addition, the College is currently undergoing the largest construction project in its history.

Information for this article was written and compiled by Blaire Leible Garwitz, Bob Zebroski, and Dennis Doyle.

150 Years of Educating Pharmacy Innovators,the complete history of St. Louis College of Pharmacy, will be published in 2015. The book, written by BOB ZEBROSKI, professor of history; interim associate dean of arts and sciences; and interim chair of the department of liberal arts, and DENNIS DOYLE, assistant professor of history, shares the lives and legacies of even more STLCOP leaders and tells the full story of the College from its founding in 1864 to the present.

As St. Louis College of Pharmacy’s third president, Thomas F. Patton brought both academic and corporate experience to the position. Raised in Western Pennsylvania, Patton received his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, and master’s degree and Ph.D. in pharmaceutics from the University of Wisconsin between 1966 and 1975. He spent the next 11 years at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy as a professor, researcher, and associate vice chancellor. In 1986, Patton left academia for the world of pharmaceuticals and served in a variety of directorial and executive positions for Upjohn, Oread, and DuPont Merck.

In 1994, Patton accepted the position of president at the College. When he arrived, he found a school that still had a phone switchboard, a box for petty cash, and an old freight elevator but did not yet have a human resources department or adequate teaching or residential facilities. In his 16 years at the

College, Patton modernized the school and maintained a high level of fiscal responsibility. But while some may remember him as the quintessential no-nonsense administrator, he had a charismatic side as well. Many remembered Patton’s strong sense of humor. Without it, he would not have hosted the school talent show or volunteered to sit in dunking booths at Welcome Back Barbecues.

Perhaps one of his most lasting legacies, Patton helped transform campus life. In 1994, the College was still largely a commuter school. But Patton made it a point to develop a more active, complete student life experience. Thanks to his administration’s support, the school had more sports teams, clubs, extracurricular events, residential space, and a more active student government than ever by the time Patton’s presidency ended in 2010.

THOMAS F. PATTON

CHARLES C. RABE SUMNER M. ROBINSON

JOHN A. PIEPER

1960

The Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy increases to five years. Only 7% of students are female.

1960

Intercollegiate athletics launch with bowling as the first sport. Coach Wiedenbacher is the part-time athletic director.

1964

The first residence hall opens on what is now the Quad.

1965

A continuing education program is developed.

1961

Charles Rabe Jr. becomes the College’s first full-time president.

1963

The “Dispensers,” the College’s first intercollegiate basketball team, go 7-7 in their inaugural season.

1956

Richard Crumble, Thomas L. Jones, and Thomas J. Williams III are the first African-American graduates.

1964

The College celebrates its centennial.

1962

The College’s name is changed back to “St. Louis College of Pharmacy,” and a new seal is launched.

1970

Arthur Zimmer receives the first Outstanding Educator Award (later renamed the Joe E. Haberle Outstanding Educator Award) from the Alumni Association.

1978

A new program of externships in community pharmacies and clerkships at clinical practice sites, mandated by ACPE, is initiated.

1980

Intercollegiate sports are no longer offered.

1981

The College opens Rabe Hall on Forest Park Ave., formerly the Town and Country apartment complex, which had been renovated as student housing for upperclassmen.

1983

Sumner Robinson becomes the second president of STLCOP.

Sumner M. Robinson arrived at St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 1984 as its second president. An alumnus of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, he had served as dean of his alma mater for the prior seven years.

Robinson imagined the College as a national leader in pharmacy education. In 1986, the College introduced the first six-year degree program in its history which culminated in a Doctor of Pharmacy degree—something that most pharmacy schools in the United States did not offer at the time. In the fall of 1986, the College began offering two years of evening graduate courses leading to an master’s degree in pharmacy administration. Robinson also contracted with Barnes Hospital School of Nursing for its students to complete their general education requirements at the College.

In 1986, a $7 million building expansion and renovation project began, which included the construction of a new student center, renovation of the main academic building, a new and improved library, and a quadrangle and covered walkway.

In 1990, the College developed its first strategic plan, The College’s academic divisions were realigned into arts and sciences, pharmaceutical and administrative sciences, pharmacy practice, and library and instructional sciences. In addition, the faculty began to change their teaching methods from content-based learning (rote memorization) to process-based learning (increased interaction between teachers and students). Robinson left in 1994 to serve as president of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.

1986

The College begins a $7 million campus renovation—a student center, outdoor quad, two-story addition to the library, and renovations to the main academic building.

1988

STLCOP collaborates with Barnes Hospital School of Nursing in its three-year nursing program. STLCOP faculty teach science and liberal arts courses for nursing students on the College campus.

1986

The College offers an optional six-year Doctor of Pharmacy degree.

1985

An evening Master of Science in pharmacy administration is offered.

1993

Intercollegiate sports start up again with both men’s basketball and women’s volleyball.

1991

The first issue of Script magazine is published.

1994

Thomas F. Patton becomes the third president of the College.

1994

The new athletic team name and mascot, the “Eutectic,” is chosen by students, faculty, and staff to replace “Rex,” the purple dinosaur.

1995

A new 29,000- square-foot academic building, later named Whelpley Hall, is completed with classrooms, offices, and a 300-seat auditorium. A parking garage is also added.

1996

The first White Coat Ceremony is held.

2009

The College completes a land swap with Washington University School of Medicine, trading Rabe Hall for 1.2 acres of land adjacent to the STLCOP campus.

2001

The first STLCOP C.A.R.E.S. community day of service is created by members of the Student Pharmacists Association.

2003

Campus is renovated with a new eight-story residence hall, café, and improvements to the main academic building, now named Jones Hall.

2000

A Doctor of Pharmacy becomes the entry-level degree to practice pharmacy.

Campus Traditions:

Then & NowFACULTY AUCTIONSt. Louis College of Pharmacy students love pooling their financial resources together for a night out with their favorite professors, a mortar and pestle from a far-flung nation, or a professor-led study session with pizza—all items donated by faculty members during the annual Student Pharmacists Association’s (SPA) faculty auction. Faculty members donate a service or item for students to bid on in an effort to raise money for a local charity, SPA-organized health fairs, and students’ professional travel expenses.

Students place bids on around 30 different items. In addition to faculty donations, student organizations donate services such as a “Treat of the Month Club” membership, in which members of Lambda Kappa Sigma bake cookies during the school year for the winning bidder, or two

hours of yard and house chores done by members of Kappa Psi. In its early days, top auction items included a night with friends, hot dogs, and poker at Dr. Naeger’s garage in Dogtown. These days, bowling nights with pharmacy practice faculty o�en bring in the most money.

THE PERIPHERAL BRAINCramming for a therapeutics exam can be stressful enough, so how about creating a professor-approved cheat sheet to use during the exam? Students in the mid-90s and early 2000s could buy a small notebook, meant to fit in their lab coats, to fill with a condensed version of therapeutics notes to use as a reference during exams. The notebooks were intended to help students learn the material by forcing them to si� through their notes, identify key pieces of information, and sort it out (in their small notebooks) in a format that was easiest for them to understand. Because of the notebook’s limited space and time limits on tests, the notebooks had to be highly organized and used sparingly as a quick reference—as students organized the notebooks, they learned the material. Notes typically included treatment algorithms, dosage formulations, starting and titration doses, and lab results.

Yet, it was the students who determined the fate of this tradition, possibly due to the stress of deciding what to include in their brains and, ultimately, trying to shrink their notes to the smallest, perceptible font size! “I tried to photocopy the information to make it as small as possible in order to cram it all in,” says Janene Verrant ’98/’99.

An abstract completed by pharmacy practice faculty members Julie Murphy, Patrick Finnegan ’02/’03, Alicia Forinash ’00/’01, and Sue Bollmeier ’99/’00 in 2006 surveyed students and showed there was no increase in satisfaction or exam results when students used the peripheral brain compared to when they didn’t—thus the tradition sadly came to an end.

By Stephanie Hoffmann

SENIOR TRIPSOne of the great traditions for many STLCOP students was the Senior Trip, which was open to all seniors to visit pharmaceutical manufacturers, usually Abbo¡ Laboratories in Chicago, Eli Lilly in Indianapolis , or E.R. Squibb & Sons and Lederle Laboratories in the New York area. These trips were designed to teach the students about the development and manufacturing of drugs. Seniors also saw the trip as a chance to see new things and celebrate their completion of the pharmacy program. Classmates assigned each other to bring the essentials in preparation for the trip: soda, snacks, ice, and adult beverages.

Memories from the senior trips are legendary, from classmates being le� behind at the train station, to buses breaking down along deserted highways, learning of the Kennedy assassination through storefront windows on New York City’s 5th Avenue, and being wined and dined by the company’s executives. “Mrs. Phyllis Sarich (who taught microbiology) and her husband, Ma¡, worked some magic with his employer, Winthrop Laboratories, to co-host our class trip to New York City,” says Larry Martin ’69. “We had a cocktail and dinner reception with Winthrop’s top executives and scientists. Talwin (Pentazocine) was a brand new analgesic that everyone hoped would provide great pain relief without addiction issues. We actually met and had dinner with the scientists who developed the drug. It was incredible,” Martin says.

“On the bus ride to Lilly, my wife of only a few months accompanied me,” says Larry Caruso ’85. “We rode on the bus that was chaperoned by Dr. Haberle and his wife. On the back of the bus, we started a game of ‘truth or dare.’ I chose a ‘dare,’ which was to go up and kiss Mrs. Haberle. I walked up to Dr. Haberle and his wife and, a�er a lengthy explanation of my dilemma, he eventually gave me permission to kiss his wife. As I was bending over, lips puckered to complete my dare, Dr. Haberle stopped me and said, ‘You asked me if it was okay, but you failed to get her permission!’ Red from embarrassment, I humbly asked Mrs. Haberle. She graciously agreed to allow the kiss, and my ‘dare’ was complete.”

The last official senior trip was held in 1999, much to the dismay of underclassmen. While pharmaceutical companies no longer invite students to their facilities, today’s professional year 4 (P4) students gain firsthand experience in hospitals, clinics, community pharmacies, and other practice se¡ings through eight five-week Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience rotations.

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2010

The College’s endowment reaches $94 million.

2010

STLCOP receives the largest gift in its history: $5.9 million from the Whelpley trust.

2010

John A. Pieper becomes the fourth president of the College.

2011

The Board of Trustees approves STLCOP 20/20, a new strategic plan, in June.

2011

STLCOP, the city of St. Louis, and the Drug Enforcement Administration create the St. Louis Medication Disposal Initiative.

2012

STLCOP is named a “Great College to Work For” by The Chronicle of Higher Education. It is named again in 2013 and 2014.

2014

The last basketball game is held in The Pillbox in the Cartwright Student Center. It is demolished in March.

2014

Groundbreaking for a new 213,000- square-foot academic and research building and library takes place in April.

2014

The College offers men’s and women’s basketball, cross country, track and field, tennis, and soccer as well as women’s volleyball and softball. STLCOP leaves the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference after 20 years to join the American Midwest Conference.

2013

The College opens an Alumni House on Laclede Avenue, two blocks from campus.

2014

STLCOP and UMSL form a collaborative program for students to obtain an MBA or graduate certificate in Business Administration.

2014

The College introduces a seven-year Doctor of Pharmacy degree with an integrated bachelor’s in health humanities or health sciences.

2013

Professor John Beale discovers four drug compounds to treat and prevent Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, acquiring the first patents in the College’s history.

THE MASCOTWhile STLCOP boasts national rankings in academics, it also has made national headlines for its unique mascot. The Eutectic was born during the 1993-94 academic year when the College joined the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The College held a campus-wide contest to replace Rex, its friendly purple dinosaur mascot. Then student Wendi McKinzie ’94/’95 first suggested the name “Eutectic,” which quickly caught on among students and faculty and beat out the runner-up “Panther” mascot, receiving 218 votes to the Panther’s 194. Other mascot suggestions included the “Volunteers,” which was the original STLCOP mascot when it first fielded intercollegiate teams, and the “Pioneers.” A 1994 press release announcing the new mascot stated: “Just as our College is unique in many ways, we have a pharmacy-related mascot that is distinctive to our College. Eutectic—a term describing when two solids form a liquid—is an interesting metaphor for teamwork and for mixing intercollegiate athletics with an academically challenging educational program.”

When creating the first Eutectic costume, the College wanted its mascot to be non-gendered, showcase strength, and be fierce, but not threatening. The brown gremlin-like mascot costume, funded by the Alumni Association and Student Alumni Associa-tion and wearing a white lab coat, was officially presented to the College community on Sept. 13, 1994, at a women’s volleyball game. On Aug. 26, 2009, the College unveiled a redesigned Eutectic mascot and named it Mortarmer “Morty” McPestle, by popular student vote. The new, 6-foot-tall mascot still looks fierce, but hardly resembles its previous incarnation.

HANG OUTS AND HOT SPOTSSTLCOP students will always remember the demanding pharmacy curriculum at STLCOP, but they also tend to remember their favorite spots and ways to take a study break or de-stress a�er a tough exam. Many of the students’ favorites have come and gone in the Central West End, such as El Ranchero, where students would meet faculty for drinks, or The Majestic, which served an affordable hot breakfast. However today’s students still carry on the traditions of the Half-Way Party at the start of their fourth year, fraternity mixers at the American Legion Hall in Maplewood, the Holiday Dance in December, and popping into Rosie’s or Tom’s Bar & Grill a�er a test. Though no longer open as a 24-hour diner, Tom’s still offers students a place to relax over food and drink and sing karaoke on the weekends!

THE VARIETY SHOWSTLCOP students have always been encouraging each other to show off their talents outside of the classroom. Bob Zebroski, professor of history and then Student Council advisor, recalls helping judge the student lip-syncing contest in the early 90s during Homecoming Week. There were four student acts, no emcee, and two judges, Mrs. Be¡y Rooney (the registrar) and Zebroski. First prize was a $25 gi� certificate.

Students broadened their talents and the number of acts, which soon included lip syncing as well, at the STLCOP Variety Show. Faculty members such as Dr. Evelyn Becker, Dr. Lucia Tranel, Dr. Leonard Naeger and President Thomas Pa¡on volunteered as emcees. Many acts focused less on talent and more on good-natured imitations of professors. “If you were ridiculed during the Variety Show, it meant the students liked you,” recalls Tom Zlatic, professor of English.

Starting in the late 90s, students hired a professional comedian to perform a 20-minute stand-up routine and serve as emcee. Winning acts began receiving cash prizes and winners were categorized into groups including individual, group, or fraternity.

Today, a comedian still hosts the show, which averages about 20 acts including singing, dancing, playing of musical instruments and poetry. These days, the first place prize can earn you a couple hundred dollars!

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JOE E. HABERLE�e professor who tried to mess with your head and asked, “Are you sure about that?” �e same guy who just “showed up” to visit when you were in the hospital.

�e address has changed seven times, but the current campus has been here since 1927. �e community and the city have grown up around us. For decades, Parkview Place was a through street where houses and parked cars lined the street instead of a pedestrian walkway. Today, STLCOP is located in the middle of the bustling Central West End and is adjacent to one of the world’s largest research and patient-care centers.

№77 GREEK LIFE

THE QUAD�e coveted, singular green space on campus.

№59 Kim Grzeskowiak (athletic director and student council advisor in the 80s and 90s) “She was an amazing person who always had a smile and kind words for the students.” Amy Weckman ’98/’99

№23IT’S WHERE STLCOP STUDENTS FIND THEIR BETTER HALF.STLCOP students marry each other. A lot.

In a ceremony full of tradition, hundreds of graduates have walked through �e Chase Park Plaza (and other locations) to begin pharmacy careers.

COMMENCEMENT

SACRED HOUR�e one hour, two days a week, where no classes are scheduled so student groups can meet or we can have time to study or just do nothing.

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MORTY, THE EUTECTICOur species-less golden boy that de�es classi�cation. Is it a bear? Is it a monster? No, it’s Mortarmer McPestle, and his claims to fame include being recognized as one of the most obscure mascots by ESPN and one of the worst mascot names by TIME magazine. It’s true, we don’t know what he is, but we love him anyway.

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To honor our sesquicentennial, Scriptmagazine set out to create a list of 150 things we (and you) love about STLCOP.

The list isn’t ranked in any particular order or in any logical way. Many of you sent in suggestions on social media or through our @STLCOP newsletter. We probably missed a few things you love about STLCOP, and we’re sorry we couldn’t include everything. But we have included the full “150 Things” at stlcop.edu/150, and we’d love to hear about your unforgettable memory, place, or person from your days at STLCOP. HAPPY 150th STLCOP!

150THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT STLCOP

LIBERAL ARTS CONVOCATIONSWe get to take in a concert by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra or watch the wonderful and strange acrobatics of dancers. And get credit for it.

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№27 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS“�e opportunity to get to know people of di�erent cultures on a personal level.” Jonathon Anderson ’11

№49 INTRAMURAL AND CLUB SPORTS. ROLLER HOCKEY!

№5 CULTURE OF CARING“My father died during my fourth year at STLCOP and, back then, you had to have a co-signer for a checking account. All of my funds were frozen, and I couldn’t write a check for tuition for the second semester. Drs. Haberle and Naeger ’63/’65 and Hilory Still ’52/’53 wrote checks and paid my tuition until my funds were freed up so I could stay in pharmacy school. I named my oldest daughter after one of those instructors. Everybody at STLCOP was dedicated to making sure we got somewhere at the end of our years here.” Starlin Haydon-Greatting ’81

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IT TAKES A TOTAL OF FIVE MINUTES TO WALK ACROSS CAMPUS.

VIEWS OF THE DOWNTOWN SKYLINE FROM THE FIFTH FLOOR OF JONES HALL.53

DOC NAEGER�e only professor with a statue on campus, and the only one with fuzzy dog slippers.40

STLCOP THEATERSweeney Todd. CATS. You can take the stage and prove that pharmacists are more than left-brained geniuses. It’s encouraged and expected.

731313WHITE COAT CEREMONY

�e point where you know you’re going to make it!

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№71 LEGISLATIVE DAYBecause if pharmacists don’t do it, who will?

№70 LIFELONG LEARNINGSTLCOP’s O�ce of Continuing Education serves alumni with a variety of courses. New courses are always being added to provide professional development o�erings.

№33 ALL THE PROFESSORS KNOW YOU BY NAME.

№50 YOU KNOW EVERYONE IN YOUR MAJOR.

№83 YOU KNOW THE CAFETERIA COOKS AND SECURITY OFFICERS BY NAME.

№12 TOM’S BAR AND GRILL Serving burgers and beer to students since 1976. �ere’s not a safe place within a �ve-block radius of the Central West End to vent about that pathio quiz.

DOG SITTING FOR SWEET DEE IN RESIDENCE HALL.

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HOLIDAY DANCE’nough said.

№19STLCOP C.A.R.E.S.Since 2005, this student-run day of service has brought together the entire STLCOP community to provide health screenings at local pharmacies, clean up Forest Park, and participate at many other locations in the metro area.

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YOU AND THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT WERE PRETTY TIGHT.

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№9 INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONWe work with students of medicine, nursing, and physical and occupational therapy from Washington University and Goldfarb School of Nursing during interprofessional education experiences that prepare us for practice on a health care team.

№7 ALL OF OUR FRIENDS ARE REALLY INTO MATH AND SCIENCE. I MEAN REALLY INTO MATH AND SCIENCE.

№51HUMAN

PYRAMIDS DURING

HOMECOMING WEEK

16THE PILLBOX�e last game was held in the gym Feb. 22, 2014, but the good ones never really die. A new gym is being planned as part of a multimillion-dollar campus transformation.

№21 RESIDENCE HALLIt’s your home away from home and second family, complete with parents (student a�airs sta�) and aunts and uncles (RAs). It’s where everyone belongs!

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№22 OATH OF A PHARMACIST“To consider the welfare of humanity and relief of su�ering” is not just the �rst line in the Oath of a Pharmacist, it’s a campus philosophy and our shared passion.92

HEALTH CARE LEADERS ON CAMPUS LIKE FORMER U.S. SURGEON GENERAL DAVID SATCHER.

№37 2009 KIAC CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS

STUDENT ATHLETESEvery year, STLCOP students achieve success on and o� the �eld with NAIA honors and accolades for high achievements in the classroom.

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MOVE-IN DAY�e complete exhilaration of move-in day when faculty, sta�, and students come together to greet you with smiles, carts, and muscles to help make the transition a little easier. 31

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75 THE ORIGINAL WORN STEPS IN JONES HALL

№3 THIRD-OLDEST CONTINUALLY OPERATING COLLEGE OF PHARMACY IN THE NATION. AND WE STILL LOOK GOOD.

№4 ONE OF THE TOP FOUR PRIVATE COLLEGES OF PHARMACY IN THE COUNTRY (ranked by U.S. News & World Report).

№54YOU REALLY CAN PAY OFF YOUR LOANS IN FIVE TO 10 YEARS.

SURVIVAL KITS & STATIONS

�e Alumni Association-sponsored sustenance for stressed-out students.

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FOREST PARK�e nation’s largest urban park—a block from campus. A place to walk, run, train, talk, or practice soccer.

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150THE ORIGINAL IVY- COVERED ENTRANCE

BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE IN MY FAMILY LOVED IT.

№41 WHELPLEY HALLWhere the second �oor is the �rst �oor, the �rst �oor is the lower level, and the third �oor is the second �oor...we think.

FRANK MERCER, WHO COULD WRITE WITH ONE HAND AND ERASE WITH THE OTHER. WAX ON, WAX OFF.

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WEEDS AND SEEDS�e a�ectionate name given to the lab section of Dr. Lindhorst’s pharmacognosy course, in which we identi�ed henbane, aconite, psyllium, goldseal, digitalis. “We spent hours studying jars of weeds, seeds, roots, and leaves.” Larry Martin ’69

17№65STUDENT BODY UNION�e governing body of STLCOP students, giving us a voice in policy decisions and involving students on administrative and faculty committees.

№24 DIWALI�e Hindu Festival of Lights during Multicultural Week.

№32 When STLCOP students need to “use up” café points at the end of the semester, the person in front of you in line might swipe his card to buy you lunch.

№30STUDENTS ALWAYS GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO TUTOR OR HELP EACH OTHER STUDY.

№25 A STLCOP DEGREE PREPARES US FOR THE 5TH BEST JOB OVERALL (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT ).

№38 STLCOP is a “Great Place to Work For” (named by �e Chronicle of Higher Education).

№74THE STLCOP FACULTY AND STAFF SCHOLARSHIPA scholarship, donated by faculty and sta�, that helps a student in need. �is year, the award amount covered the cost of an entire academic year at the College.

№79Talking to kids and parents at the St. Louis Science Center about medication safety as part of an introductory pharmacy practice experience. Who knew M&M’s could be mistaken for medicine?

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№14 MEDICATION DISPOSALSTLCOP students and faculty work with the city of St. Louis and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to safely dispose of unwanted medications. Last year, the initiative collected 16,311 pounds of medication from the St. Louis area!

№2 You are able to toss more acronyms into casual conversation than should be humanly possible.

MATERIA MEDICA PHARMACY

From acute care to writing for health, students at St. Louis College of Pharmacy have more than 160 listed courses to choose from. Going back 150 years, the options were far fewer, with just four regular courses: botany, chemistry, materia medica, and pharmacy. These early courses planted the seeds for the College, and the education of STLCOP students, to grow.

BOTANY CHEMISTRY

The study of botany, for students in the first class of 1865, was deemed

necessary to help better understand both the materia medica and pharmacy courses.

The class met twice a week for 20 weeks of lectures and a weekly field trip either in the country-side or at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The first half of the lecture series was devoted to the structure of plants and their development. The second half focused on systematic botany, now known as systematics, which is a broad area of study that names, categorizes, and provides the history of organisms.

For today’s students, botany is taught under the umbrella of biology courses, which are spread across the first three years of study. The College’s intro-ductory biology series covers topics never imagined in 1865, like biological pathways within cells, energy creation and utilization, and gene expression. The basics of systematics are still taught as well as the interactions between living organisms and the non-living environment. Nucleic acids—which, along with proteins, are the building blocks of all life—were not identified until four years after the College’s first botany lectures. Today, they are among the first concepts taught during the modern classes. The modern biology courses also spend an entire semester on human anatomy and another semester on human physiology.

The chemistry course in the College’s early history focused on

the elements, their symbols, and formu-lae. The course also touched on organic chemistry

and descriptions of common compounds like gums, starches, and sugars. There were demonstrations in class, but the subject was approached from a theoreti-cal perspective.

“In chemistry, there is a lot of data collected, and students focus on looking at data, drawing conclusions, and making assessments based on those conclusions,” says Ehren Bucholtz, associate professor of organic chemistry. “That is what pharmacists do in their everyday workload.”

Eight chemistry courses are currently taught, and the subject is integrated into many related courses. The College’s curriculum now blends organic and general chemistry across several semesters, building knowledge from atoms to bonds and all the way up to structures, something not many other institutions of higher education are doing.

“Traditionally first-year chemistry has been taught incorporating mathematical and chemical concepts,” Bucholtz says. “Sometimes this leads students to make a choice to learn either the math or chemistry. We put less emphasis on the calculations and are focusing on building chemical principles. After a chemical knowl-edge base is built, we incorporate math to support the concepts.”

For the inaugural class of students at the College, the materia medica course was, according to the College’s 1865 quarterly Bulletin, “confined to all substances of animal or vegetable origin used in medicine, or pertaining to the business of the druggist.” The course built on the student’s knowledge of botany and delved deeper into how parts of plants could be used as medicine.

Today, many of the ideas and concepts taught in materia medica can be found in pharmacology, a required course for students in the second professional year at the College.

“Pharmacology provides the answers on ‘how’ and ‘why’ substances interact with biological systems,” says Jasmina Profirovic, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology.

When materia medica was first taught, drug discovery identified natural products and their effects on the body. Modern drug discovery, Profirovic says, might rather be defined as drug invention, the process in which drugs are designed based on previously identified and well-defined targets.

“We want our students to know and critically analyze the mechanisms of drug actions, the adverse effects, drug biotransformation, and the basis of drug-drug and drug-food interactions,” Profirovic says.

The College’s first pharmacy course focused exclusively on the preparation of drugs. The College’s 1865 brochure described the students’ activities, which included: “pulverizing, dissolving, evaporating, distilling, crystallizing, etc.” Students went on to learn about how to properly store medications and how to work with an apothecary. The third part of the course focused on the apothecary’s laboratory.

That one course grew into many courses focused on different aspects of the profession. Now the emphasis is on the appropriate and safe use of manufactured medication. However, compounding is still taught as part of the curriculum. It is introduced in the first pharmaceutics course during the first professional year. Students can also enroll in a two credit-hour course for hands-on practice in modern compounding technique.

“Today’s pharmacy courses, and all of the courses now offered, are focused on preparing our graduates to provide high-level, interpro-fessional patient and population care,” says Tricia Berry, Pharm.D., BCPS, professor and interim department chair of pharmacy practice. “We want pharmacists to be experts in the optimal use of medications, promoters of health and wellness, and effective patient educators and advocates.”

Tickets for ClassIn the 1880s, St. Louis College of Pharmacy students paid their tuition to attend classes by buying tickets—at $10 each—for lectures in pharmacy, chemistry, and materia medica.

Lecture and Laboratory Schedules

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ADOLPH AUER ’43EMMA GRUBER AUER ’44

JOANN AUER ’80

Growing up in her father’s independent pharmacy at Lemp and Utah in St. Louis, JoAnn Auer ’80 saw firsthand how dedicated her father, Adolph Auer ’43, was to his business and his patients. “My dad’s work ethic was amaz-ing,” she says. “Most of the time he’d work 12-hour days. He never took a day off, not even when his kids were born!” His commitment to his community made an impact on his patients as well. “At his 100th birthday party, patients from the neighborhood where dad owned his business, Auer Drug, came to see him,” JoAnn says. “One woman recalled a time when dad went out of his way to help her. Her doctor gave her a prescription for her sick child, but she didn’t have a car and couldn’t get to the pharmacy to fill it. She called my dad, who filled the prescription immediately. Then he closed his store, drove to the woman’s house, delivered the medication, and went back to work.”

Like her husband, Adolph, Emma Auer ’44 also made a significant impact on the profes-sion. “Thanks to people like my mother, women have a chance to do anything they want to do,” JoAnn says. “My mom was a part of a generation that broke through the glass ceiling.” Emma was one of five women in her class of 20, when due to influences from World War II, the program was accelerated to three years. Despite these challenges, she excelled in her studies and eventually went to work at Central Drug Store in East St. Louis, where she and Adolph met.

Years later, their legacy lives on through their children, including JoAnn, who has worked in the pharmacy profession for 34 years. Like her parents, she is grateful for the education she received at STLCOP. “There is a sense of connectedness at St. Louis College of Pharmacy that doesn’t seem to exist at other colleges or universities,” JoAnn says. “If you choose to succeed here, you will; every person here will help you attain that goal. That hasn’t changed from the time my parents went here, and I doubt it ever will.”

THOMAS FRANCIS SHANAHAN ’28THOMAS JOSEPH SHANAHAN ’59MOLEIGH CARSON, FRESHMAN

When freshman Moleigh Carson told her grandfather, Tom Shanahan ’59, that she wanted to study pharmacy at STLCOP, he was so proud to have his granddaughter make the same choice he had made years before. “I promised myself that I wouldn’t pressure her,” Tom says. “She made the decision on her own, and I am so happy with her choice.”

Moleigh is a third-generation student at the College; her grand-

father graduated in 1953 and her great-grandfather, Thomas Francis Shanahan, was in the class of 1928. As an independent pharmacist in the Chicago area, Thomas Francis Shanahan taught his son the skills needed to manage a community pharmacy. “My father’s

pharmacy was well respected,” Tom says. “All the physicians knew that when they sent patients there, they would be treated fairly and have their prescription compounded quickly.”

Tom worked in his father’s pharmacy as a young man, and when it was time for him to choose a college and career, he followed in his father’s footsteps at STLCOP. After graduation,

he worked in both community pharmacy and industry settings, and continues to work in a community pharmacy outside of Chicago today. “When Moleigh told me she was thinking about becoming a pharma-cist, I suggested she work with me,” Tom says. “I wanted her to see what happens in a busy community pharmacy. I stressed to her that no matter what she does with her degree, she has to know how to communicate with patients. Commu-nication has to be a priority.”

As she gets deeper into her first semester at the College, Moleigh holds onto her grandfather’s advice. “No matter what I choose, I want to make an impact,” Moleigh says. “I feel like I can do that as a pharmacist.”

In 1903, Ernst Winkelmann ’21 and his brothers, Henry and Christopher, opened Winkelmann Pharmacy. Four generations later, the pharmacy continues to be a family tradition.

“Ernst was my grandfather,” says Daniel Winkelmann II ’58. “He started the business with his brothers and, in 1946, my father, Daniel Winkelmann I, bought the pharmacy and carried on their work.” Many of Dan’s memories from childhood involve his father’s pharmacy. “I swept the floor and straightened the greeting cards and, eventually, I graduated to working at the soda fountain and making deliveries by bicycle.” Despite coming from two generations of pharmacists, Dan says his father let him choose his career path. “I was an only child,

but I wasn’t pressured into carrying on the business,” he says. “I knew STLCOP was a great school because my uncles and dad went there, and I saw from my father that pharmacy was a profitable career that allowed you to give back to your community. Ultimately it was my choice to study pharmacy at the College, and it was the right one.”

When his son, Daniel Winkelmann III ’85, decided to pursue pharmacy

as well, Dan asked him to consider STLCOP. “I told Danny that if he studied at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, he’d be learning from and working with his future peers,” Dan says. “The College connects you to your community. You build relationships with other pharmacists and the people who eventually become your patients.”

FOUNDINGFamiliesThree families, united by their passion for independent pharmacy and their dedication to St. Louis College of Pharmacy, explain why

generations of families plant roots at STLCOP.

Story by Stacy Austerman Photos by Lauren Winchester

ERNST WINKELMANN ’21DANIEL P. WINKELMANN I ’27DANIEL P. WINKELMANN II ’58DANIEL P. WINKELMANN III ’85

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For 150 years, St. Louis College of Pharmacy has been gathering, talking, and aspiring to be a national and international leader in pharmacy education. And we can prove it.

The College has a rich history of common, eveyday people coming together to do extraordinary things along with ways of documenting and sharing the incredible journey.

Since the very beginning, the College has kept a written record of the Board of Trustees meeting minutes—from Nov. 11, 1864! �e minutes spell out, in �nely scripted handwriting, prosaically accurate accounts of the decisions being made at the time. �ere were discussions of how much to spend on cigars for the semi-centennial in 1914 and balance sheets listing street car expenses to Shaw’s Garden for the same event ($45.25). �e total approved budget for the celebration was $2,368.46.

�e minutes also detail historic moments in the College’s history as if, somehow, the early board members had an inclination of the signi�cance STLCOP would have over time. �e so�ened leather ledgers authenticate the creation of the charter, constitution, and bylaws of the College. �ey provide insight on what new laws were a�ecting pharmacists in 1877 and what degrees were going to be o�ered in 1896 (Graduate in Pharmacy and Bachelor of Pharmacy). And they o�er a glimpse into the early founders and leaders of an institution that seemed to care as much about writing a thank-you letter to a woman who provided food for an event as keeping track of receipts and expenditures.

Early on, “moral character” was set by the board as one of the graduation requirements at St. Louis College of Pharmacy. And it’s one of the traits that continues to endure among STLCOP students. �e minutes are a tangible legacy of the original spirit and intent of what makes this place special.

�e College has kept up the tradition of recording its history in various other publications, including the St. Louis College of Pharmacy Alumnus, which later became the News Capsule and then Script magazine. In 1964, John P. Winkelmann ’60 wrote the History of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, the only compre-hensive book on the College. Until now, that is.

In 2015, Professor of History Bob Zebroski and Assistant Professor of History Dennis Doyle will release 150 Years of Educating Pharmacy Innovators, a complete history of St. Louis College of Phar-macy. �e book will be available for pre-order at the Sesquicentennial Gala. It will also be available at Barnes & Noble, the College’s bookstore, and on the Barnes & Noble online store throughout the sesquicentennial year. For more information, go to stlcop.edu/bookstore.

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Class NotesClass Notes

1940sAdolph Auer ’43 celebrated his 100th birthday on Aug. 27. His wife, Emma (Gruber) Auer ’44, also attended STLCOP. �e couple lives in Belleville, Ill.

1960sMary Louise Degenhart ’60 celebrated her 60th anniver-sary as a sister of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ on June 22 in Ruma, Ill.

Herschel Ryales ’67 was recently appointed by President Barack Obama to the Selective Service Board of Kenosha County, Wis. Hershel is also working on his Master of Science degree in project management at the University of Wisconsin.

Leonard Rybak ’69 has been awarded a �ve-year federal grant from the National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health to continue his studies of how to reduce hearing loss in cancer patients under going chemotherapy treatment. Leonard is a physician researcher at Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine in Spring�eld.

1970sDennis Helling ’71 received the 2013 Remington Honor Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), in recognition of his innovations and advancements in the pharmacy profession.

He recently retired as executive director of pharmacy opera-tions and therapeutics for Kaiser Permanente in Denver, Colo. Dennis was also recently elected to the APhA board of trustees.

Ned Randle’s ’73 short story, “Wild Bill,” was accepted into Red Earth Review, a literary magazine published by the Red Earth MFA program at Oklahoma City University in July. Ned and his wife, Rita, live in Smithton, Ill.

Neil Schmidt ’73 retired June 30 from his position as system pharmacy manager for the University of Missouri Health System in Columbia, Mo. He resides in Wildwood, Mo.

1990sJanine (Pallone) Burkett ’91 was elected president of the Missouri Board of Pharmacy in July. She has been a member of the board since her appointment in 2010. Janine is vice president and chief drug sourcing o�cer for Express Scripts, Inc. Janine and her husband, Steve, live in St. Louis.

Rhonda (Hunter) Maxwell ’98 and Matt Maxwell ’98 opened Maxwell Pharmacy on June 9, 2013, in Hannibal, Mo.

2000sKilinyaa Cothran ’01 received an award for best session at the Missouri College Personnel Association confer-ence. She presented “Feeding

Your Fire: Utilizing Personal Mission Statements to Uncover Your Core Values and Priorities,” along with Rebecca Jones, director of academic support at the College. Kilinyaa is director of professional student a�airs at the College. She and Rebecca will present their session at the American College Personnel Association in Tampa, Fla., in March 2015.

Lisa Lubsch ’00/’01 was recently awarded the 2014 Presidential Citation for Service by the Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group at its annual meeting on May 2 in Nashville, Tenn. Lisa also welcomed her �rst child, Alexander Michael Bimpasis, on Feb. 13. He weighed 10 pounds, 10 ounces, and measured 22 inches. Lisa works as a clinical associate professor in the department of pharmacy practice at

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy.

Amy (Tex) Gill ’01 and her husband, Pavi, welcomed their second child, Alex Singh, on Sept. 28, 2013. He weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces, and measured 21 inches. He joins big brother, Liam, who is 4. Amy works for Walmart Pharmacy in Pana, Ill. �e family resides in Taylorville, Ill.

Chrissi Glastetter ’04/’05 received the St. Louis Great Catch Award from Mercy Hospital in June for identifying a patient safety situation and taking steps to prevent harm to the patient. Chrissi is a clinical sta� pharmacist at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis.

Steve Zielinski ’06 and his wife, Katie, welcomed their

�rst child, Aiden James, on May 28. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and measured 20 1/2 inches. Steve is the director of pharmacy at CenterPointe Hospital. �e family lives in O’Fallon, Mo.

Brandon Eldridge ’09 and his wife, Angie (Schnake) Eldridge ’09, welcomed their �rst child, William Henry, on

Feb. 22. He weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces, and measured 20 inches. Brandon is the pharmacist manager at Omnicare of St. Louis, and Angie works as a pharmacist at Express Scripts, Inc. �e family lives in Marine, Ill.

2010sAnthony Roberts ’10 and his wife, Ashley, welcomed their

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Lambda Chi Alpha Celebrates 10 YearsThis year, the Pi Lambda Zeta chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha (LXA), the College’s only social fraternity, celebrates 10 years since the chapter was established at St. Louis College of Pharmacy.

Throughout the years, LXA has been a three- time recipient of STLCOP’s Organization of the Year Award, and the STLCOP chapter has been a two-time recipient of the Grand High Alpha Award, the highest award given by the national fraternity (and can only be awarded once in a five-year span). In 10 years, LXA has initiated more than 200 male students into the Pi Lambda Zeta chapter and remains the largest male Greek organization on campus.

As one of the founding fathers of LXA, Brandon Eldridge ’09 is proud of the way the STLCOP chapter has continued to carry on the organization’s tradition of fraternity, patriotism, learning, and morality. “It’s a testament to Lambda Chi Alpha, its educational system, core values, and most importantly, the Associate Member Program (an eight-week new member program each brother participates in before being initiated into the fraternity),” Eldridge says. “I am extremely proud of the foundation that the founding fathers and I created and especially proud of what the brothers have developed since I graduated.”

A Good YearOn August 8, John Hamilton ’01 and Bridgee (Boening)Hamilton ’97 decided to pursue another passion in their lives, besides pharmacy, by opening their first winery. “We’re anything but pretentious. We’ll help you find a wine or whiskey you’ll like and provide a welcoming atmosphere that will keep you coming back,” John says.

The Rack House West Winery in Co�leville, Mo., currently features wine from West Winery in Macon, Mo. The Hamiltons’ winery will begin to produce its own wine this fall, with the first batches ready by next summer. Along with wine, the

Rack House West Winery offers 90 different types of whiskey, scotch, and bourbon, as well as a full menu, cigar lounge, and outdoor seating.

As if the Hamiltons aren’t busy enough with the winery, John continues to work as vice president of compliance and clinical for Bellevue Pharmacy and Bridge�e uses her counseling experience as a volunteer at various organizations throughout the St. Louis area.

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�rst child, Ford Michael, on June 28. He weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces, and measured 20 1/4 inches. Anthony is owner and president of St. Charles Health Mart Pharmacy. He also opened Greentree Pharmacy in Kirkwood, Mo., in June. �e family resides in St. Louis.

Nicole (Rutledge) Slavens ’14 and Andrew Slavens ’14 were married April 26, in their hometown of E�ngham, Ill. Nicole is a sta� pharmacist at Kmart Pharmacy, and Andrew is a �oating pharma-cist for Walgreens Pharmacy in Mattoon, Ill. �e couple lives in E�ngham, Ill.

In MemoriamKiyo Fujii ’43 died July 25 in Los Angeles, Calif.

James J. Buncher ’50 died June 27 in St. Louis.

Virgil E. Pirtle Jr. ’54 died Sept. 7 in Clayton, Mo.

William M. Smith ’56 died June 28 in San Antonio, Texas.

Ferran K. Eales ’58 died Feb. 9, 2013, in Tuscon, Ariz.

Harry K. George ’60 died Aug.11 in Jackson, Mo.

Sandra (Hawksley) Martin ’61 died Sept. 1 in Gaines-ville, Mo.

Barry A. Muchnick ’62 died Aug. 5 in Chester�eld, Mo.

Robert C. Reiter ’62 died Dec. 21, 2013, in St. Louis.

Jack Dunning ’63 died June 29 in Farmington, Mo.

William J. Gross ’65 died June 19 in Godfrey, Ill.

Clara Dee (Adams) Lubben ’73 died Aug. 4 in St. Louis.

James W. Howell ’88 died June 25 in Highland, Ill.

Alumni Receive MPA Awards

The Missouri Pharmacy Association (MPA) celebrated the outstanding efforts of individuals in the pharmacy profes-sion during the Annual Convention and Trade Show in St. Louis Sept. 25-28. Three St. Louis College of Pharmacy alumni were among those honored.

Kenneth Michel ’54, a retired pharmacist in Poplar Bluff, Mo., received the 2014 “Bowl of Hygeia” award. Michel was recognized for dedicating his life to helping others through both his profession and his commitment to community service. Michel has experience in community, hospital, and long-term care pharmacy. He is a fellow of the American Society for Consultant Pharmacists, past president of the Southeast Missouri Pharmacy Association, and a member of the National Community Pharmacists Association. He is currently serving on the Butler County Health Department Board and has previously served as a member of his local hospital medical ethics commi�ee.

Amy Tiemeier ’01/’02, director of community partnerships, associate director of experiential education, and associate professor of pharmacy practice at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, received the 2014 Cardinal Health Generation Rx Champions Award. Tiemeier was recognized for her work with the city of St. Louis, the St. Louis Area Agency on Aging, and the regional Drug Enforcement Administration to implement the St. Louis Medication Disposal Initiative, which collects unused and expired medications at senior housing apartments, senior centers, and churches throughout the city.

Lisa Umfleet ’96, owner of Parkland Health Mart Pharmacy in Desloge, Mo., received the 2014 Appreciation Award. Umfleet was recognized for her enthusiasm and willingness to take on any challenge, as well as her dedication to the MPA Board of Directors, where she serves as a member at large. Umfleet’s Parkland Health Mart Pharmacy was honored with the 2013 Pharmacy of the Year Award by McKesson Corporation. The award recognizes independent pharmacies for the exceptional contributions they make to their communities and the leadership they demonstrate in the areas of quality patient care, innovative marketing, and technology adoption.

TIEMEIERMICHEL UMFLEET

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