Pharmacy School News

'John Barbour Day' CelebratedBy Sooner Pharmacy Students

"Here's to Pharmacist John Barbour-prescriptionist, counsellor, friend, on theoccasion of the fiftieth anniversary of hisgraduation from the University of Okla-homa School of Pharmacy . We do himno honor . With his presence he honorsus . Long live Pharmicist John Bar-bour 1"Given by Louise Pope, Senior in pharmacy of

Pauls Valley, at a luncheon in honor of John Bar-bour, '97pharm, veteran Norman druggist, thistoast tells much of the personality of the oldestliving person to graduate from the University witha certificate in pharmacy .

Students in the School of Pharmacy got intothe spirit of "John Barbour's Day" two days inadvance . Cards proclaiming the Significance of theoccasion were looped around blouse and Shirt but-tons with ribbons of green and yellow, departmentcolors back in '97 .On the big day, April 25, pharmacy students and

faculty and many other guests, including JohnBarbour, his wife and daughter, convened in theBusiness Administration Auditorium for appro-priate "John Barbour's Day" festivities .

Following an introduction by D.B .R . Johnson,dean of the School of Pharmacy, Dr . Edwin C .DeBarr, professor of chemistry, retired, gave a de-scription of John Barbour as a Student . Mr. Barbourand Marvin Miller, '97pharm, were the only grad-uates from the University in 1897 . Dr . DeBarr re-lated many interesting incidents that transpired inhis early day chemistry classes attended by Mr.Barbour .

Following Dr . DeBarr's remarks about StudentJohn Barbour, Master of Ceremonies Curtis Potter,pharmacy Senior and past-president of the O . U .Pharmaceutical Association, introduced Dr . GuyY . Williams, professor of chemistry. Dr . Williams,'06ba, '10ma, being one of the oldest professorson the campus in terms of Service, has long knownMr. Barbour . He described "Barbour Drug, stu-(lent headquarters," as an invaluable institutionin the old days . With the discontinuance of theBarbour Drug's Soda fountain a few years ago,Dr . Williams was deprived of his "Guy Y. Special ."This Special concoction was a sundae which Mr .Barbour adapted to the exact taste of Dr . Williams .

In eulogizing Mr . Barbour as an employer, F.B . Swank, '07pharm, chemistry dispensing clerk,pictures him as a prankster . During the 15 yearsthat Mr . Swank worked in the Barbour Drug, hefound his employer a man who enjoyed life, neverletting pass an opportunity for a good joke on afriend . A favorite trick was one he put over onlocal amateur weight guessers who used to con-gregate in the hospitable atmosphere of his store .Periodically they would Size up the druggist andventure guesses at his poundage . He would thenStride forward to the scales, mount them and amidSurprised and questioned looks pull down a fewmore pounds than was estimated . The weigherswere baffled . What they didn't know was thatPharmacist Barbour always managed to catch themnapping and to conceal lead weights in his pockets .One busy day, though, the druggist was the

victim of a fast one. He was suddenly confrontedwith the scales without a moment's notice in whichto conceal his weights . Like a Shoplifter caught bythe roving eye of a floor walker, he was Set to mountthe scales and to reveal his playful treachery . Em-ployee Swank came to the rescue. Mr . SwankShouted to the front that the boss was wanted onthe telephone, So Mr. Barbour was literally savedby the bell. Returning from the back room, heclimbed aboard the scales with confidence andagain baffled his guessing audience .

Fred Reed, of Reed and Foster Drug, Spokebriefly at the meeting on "John Barbour-Col-league ." He described his competitor as a busi-nessman who enjoyed and practiced good clean

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competition, and was always anxious to work withand assist his fellow druggists .To top off the celebration, Mr . Barbour expressed

his thanks to the sponsors of the program, and tothe speakers who eulogized him . Adjourning to theClub Tea Room for a luncheon, the O.U.Ph .A ., asa final gesture of remembrance, presented a travel-ing bag to John Barbour-traveler . This was donein recognition of his active work as a Mason, OddFellow, former mayor and Democratic committee-man .With this presentation, festivities ended . Stu-

dents returned to their labs . Faculty members re-turned to the business of training pharmacists, andVeteran Druggist Barbour returned to his Normanprescription counter .

John W . Moore, '46ms, is a new chemist on thestaff of the Cities Service Chemical Research Lab-orator), in Tallant .

The Drug Mill

By DR . RALPH BIENFANG

Of Specialty organizations in pharmacy we al-ready have several . The NARD is probably theoldest--safeguarding the interests of the generalpharmacist . Newly come into being are the Ameri-can Society of Hospital Pharmacists and the Amer-ican College of Apothecaries-the first, an asso-ciation of the hospital pharmacists of the land,and the latter a banding together of prescriptionpharmacists . Has it ever occurred to you, though,that in spite of the fact that many are engaged inpharmaceutical research, and that although a tre-mendous job has just been done in military phar-macy, that there is apparently no NATIONALASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH PHARMACISTSand no AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MILITARYPHARMACISTS . Maybe it isn't even desirablethat we have Such, but it might be . What do you

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O.U . PHARMACY COMMENCEMENT SO YEARS AGO, as teacher and two graduating seniors pose . Teacheris Dr . Edwin C. DeBarr (now retired), head of the Pharmaceutical Department, University of Okla-homa. Standing is Marvin Miller (whereabouts unknown) . The seated student is John Barbour, whoto this day operates his pharmacy at Norman, Oklahoma . Both Miller and Barbour are wearing thepharmacy department colors, olive green and yellow . Incidentally these two made tip the entire Uni-

versity graduating class of 1597, the second in the history of O.U.

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MAY MEMEN TS-IN July of 1945 in this col-umn, it was predicted that there would be a phar-macy school in Arkansas . Pretty good predicting,Non? . . The John Irby Drug of Edmond Okla-homa has a rather novel phone number-No . 1 .Can any other drug store in the Nation say thesame? .

. George Bender, just recently madeeditor of MODERN PHARMACY, signs his nameto letters with a private bottle of pharmacy greenink . . . . Amos Sewell, you do a wondertul jobfor TILE and TILL in creating those attractivecovers showing the pharmacist in a pharmacy greenduty coat . But do you realize that the Drug Miller,who originally suggested this coat in 1936, doesn'teven have one to wear . Do the people who pose foryou actually wear a pharmacy green duty coat, ordo you simply brush in pharmacy green at thefinish? . . . That was a nice box of soap DONNALO Laboratories, St . Louis, sent the Drug Millerthe other day . Labelled "Lingering Melody" threeNicely scented hard-milled bars reposed in an at-tractive double carton . . . . . he only literature itemwe can think of at the moment is "You're stuck,Buckl"We heard of a man who, having a bit of trouble

breathing one morning, got an inhaler, of whichof course by this time there are many available . Allwent well during the day as he made restraineduse of it . Ah, but at night-at night at a dance,his wife gave him her lipstick to carry . Need we gofrom here?World War II had its "dog tag" with some

medical information thereon . Let's go a little far-ther and suggest that in the future, Not only mili-tary service personnel, but civilians as well, willcarry on themselves rather complete medical casehistories-for regular use of of course in emer-gencies . Yes, this is borrowed from the watchmaker and the piano-tuner who engrave the dateof repair, and who pencil the tuning date respec-tively . We don't mean an enlarged dog-tag, butrather a neat system of micro-tatooing, most prob-ably even in code . Does it sound plausible, or evenfeasible? Is it in our future?

GALEN NAMES FELLOW-Initiated as new fel-lows of Galen, senior leadership society in theSchool of Pharmacy, at a banquet held in their hon-or at the Union, Thursday evening, April 10, wereTom Walkinshaw, Salina ; John Rains, Norman ;Charles Taylor, Kaw City ; A . Harvey Cunha, To-peka, Kansas ; Marcus Cox Tifton, Georgia ; FayeXezonatos, Henryetta ; Ed McFall, Frederick ;

Adel-bert Briggs, Pueblo, Colorado;S.L.Lout, Louann,Arkansas ; Clyde Shannon, Oklahoma City ; A .Marion Smith, Pawhuska ; Don Balden, Enid ;George Xezonatos, Henryetta ; Morce Glover, Tul-sa ; and Anna Simmons, Henryetta .

MILITARY PHARMACY MUSEUM-Mrs. J . B . Black,Oklahoma City, has donated one of her own armynurse insignes. Richard Capps, also OklahomaCity, has given a first aid pack, Vest, Emergency,Sustenance, Type C-1 .

COWBOYS PICNIC-Drug Store Cowboys went tothe City park for their annual spring picnic, March28 . And a real picnic it was-softball, open-aircoffee, four kinds of sandwiches, potato salad,cokes, 7-Up, Grapette, Eskimo Pies, and honest-to-goodness homemade chocolate cake .

AMONG 50 BEST-Dr . Ralph Bienfang's book,"The Subtle Sense," was recently adjudged bythe American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York,as one of the 50 best made books of 1946 .

BALDEN APPOINTS-O.U . Ph . A . committe e ap-pointments for 1947-48 as announced by PresidentDon Bablen, Enid are: Public Relations-FredHall, Chairman, Oklahoma City ; Karl Couch,Laverne: William Lindsay ; Henry Phelps, Hemp-stead, New York ; Joan Aingell, Eufaula ; Member-ship-Evelyn Harris, Chairman, Foreman, Ark-ansas ; Idalle Alkire Sciling ; G . D . McElroy, Eldo-rado ; Fred Hood, Oklahoma City ; Christina Bur-gess, Quitaque, Texas ; Social-Morce Glover,Chairman, Tulsa ; Betty Kerr, Altus ; James Crock-r, Norman;Jack Coker,Pawnee;Elaine Wilson,

Enid ; Sports-Bill Cox, Chairman, Bixby ; CharlesCorbett, Hutchinson, Kansas ; Harry Lydick, Cof-

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feyvillc, Kansas ; Mary Lee Adams, Crescent ; AnnaBryant, Baxter Springs, Kansas ; Alumni Relations-Faye Xezonatos, Chairman, Henryetta ; Ellen LcMon, Highland, Illinois ; M. F . Clardy, Blanchard ;Roberta Cecil, Oklahoma City ; Mike O'Hara, ElkCity .RHO CHI ADDRESS-On Friday, April 18, Ralph

Bienfang, professor of pharmacy, delivered theannual No chapter Rho Chi address on the Univer-sity of Texas campus at Austin .

School of Pharmacy News

LIBRARY BOOKS-Newly received at the li-brary are "Catalogue of the Medical Museum,Washington, 1867," "Horner's Observations, 1837"and "Pharmacy's Part in Society ." Concerning the"Catalogue" it is interesting to observe in the noteat the front, that is to those of us who like to tracehistory of military pharmacy, "The autopsies at theFreedman's Hospital referred to in the cataloguewere made by Hospital Stewards S . S . Bond, A . J .Shafhirt, and D . S . Lamb ." These men could havebeen pharmacists in civilian life . Does anyoneknow?

SORORITY PRESIDENT-A n n a

Simmons,pharmacy junior from Henryetta, on February 24,was elected president of Alpha Xi Delta, Universitysocial sorority .MUSEUM ACCESSIONS-Phm . Sam Wilson

has placed on deposit an elaborate package ofChinese medicine purchased by him in a Chinesedrug store . Phm . Ralph Reed donated JapaneseVITA CIMIN (vitamin C) ampules picked upby him on Okinawa .PHARMACY SENIORS-Aware that manv are

interested in knowing who will probably graduatethis spring, the School of Pharmacy is pleased tolist its seniors :

John Bagley, Lloyd Beegle, Ralph W . CarlisleFloyd Crittenden, A . Harvey Cunha, Duane L .Feely, Leonard V . George, Robert Earl Grundy,Lloyd Jack Harris, Jo Ann Kirkpatrick, EmmanuelN . Koronis, James M . Miles, Dorcas Pilchcr, LouisePope, Curtis F . Potter, John R . Rains, Belle Stan-difer, Melvin D . Tate, Charles F . Taylor, WallaceC . Taylor, Tom Walkinshaw, Norma Jean Warner,Charles J. Zipp .SOCIETY OFFICERS-Officers of the specialty

societies of the O.U . Ph.A . for 1947-48 are : Society

ALMOST A RE-POSING OF A GRADUATION picture made 50 years ago this spring at the University ofOklahoma School of Pharmacy was egected when Dr. Edwin DeBarr, Dean D . B . R. Johnson, andPharmacist John Barbour assumed these positions . Dr . DeBarr was the dean in 1897, and Marvin Millerand John Barbour were the graduating seniors . Dean Johnson obligingly stands in for Marvin Miller

whose whereabouts is not known .

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of Prescription Pharmacists, chairman, OvettaRothmire, Hennessey, and secretary, Charles Cor-bctt, Hutchinson, Kansas . Society of ResearchPharmacists, chairman, Fred Hall, Oklahoma City,and secretary, Freda Walters, Shawnee .

Society of Hospital Pharmacists, chairman, BettyKerr, Altus, and secretary, Bobbie Miller, Noble .Society of Military Pharmacists, chairman, A . J .Smith, Oklahoma City, and secretary, Rose MarieKorb, Shawnee . Society of General Pharmacists,chairman, Ken Lisle, McLoud, and Secretary, Ma-rion Smith, Pawhuska .COWBOYS CHOOSE-Drug Store Cowboys,

pharmacy fun organization, meeting on March 5,chose for officers 1947-48, S . L . Lout, Louann,Arkansas, Foreman : Moree Glover, Tulsa, Straw-boss ; Freda Walters, Shawnee, Paymaster : FayeXezonatos, Henryetta, Cook : Ed McFall, Freder-ick, "Jedge" ; and Ralph Bienfang, professor ofpharmacy, Big Boss. Pledges selected at the samemeeting were : Bill Guthrie, Henryetta ; Cecil Hulse,Atoka ; Louis Jensen, Cyril ; Medrith Schrum, Nor-man ; Rex Hefner, Henryetta ; Jack Koch, Lovell ;George Xezonatos, Henryetta ; Faye Xezonatos,Henryetta ; Lawrence Johnson, Ada ; and Hal Hef-ner, Henryetta . There are six pharmacy studentsfrom Henryetta, and now all are active in DrugStore Cowboys . Anna Simmons of Henryetta isthe outgoing Foreman .BRAZILIAN HONOR-Dr . Ralph Bienfang,

professor of pharmacy, has been made an honor-ary member of the Society of Pharmacists andChemists of Sao Paulo, Brazil . The certificate reads"A Socicdade de Farmacia e Quimica de Sao Paulo,clundada no dia doze de outubro de 1924, nestacidade, pot deliberacao da classe dos farmaceuticose da dos quimicos, para fim de promover a defcsado enteresses das classes, o estudo das questoesquimico-farmaceuticas e o respeito as leis de eticaprofissional, faz saber a todos e a cada um, a quernpossa interessar, que o ilustrissimo senhor RalphBienfang foi inscrito cntre os scus meinbros Hon-orario fincando coin o dircito do gozar de todasas regalias a eles confcridas. E para seu titulo, ex-pedimos-lhe este diploma . Dado nesta cidade deSao Paulo, Estados Unidos do Brazil, no dia 25 deFevereiro de 1946 ." Signed by "O secretario geral"and "O presidentc ."

Medical NotesCapt . Maurice C . Gephardt, '43med, formerly

with the Army Medical Corp typhus commission,is now stationed in Japan with the Public Healthand Welfare Section doing research on typhusfever .Dr . Jack Haldeman, '371ned, is now with the

hospital division of the United States Public HealthService as consultant to the states in developmentof the hospital survey and construction programestablished by the Hill-Burton bill .Dr . C . Samuel Beaty, '35med, and Dr . L . G .

Johnson, '35med, have recently started servingresidencies in anesthesia at the University hospi-tals .Dr . Paul B . Chapman, '46med, was a visitor at

the School of Medicine May 3 . He has completedhis internship at Evangelical Hospital, Detroit,Michigan, and is awaiting military duties .Dr. Carl Bowie, '46med, and Dr. James 'f .

Boggs, '46med, have recently completed their in-ternships at Wesley Hospital .Dr . Elnora Miller, '46tucd, has completed her

internship and has entered practice at 7lilsa, Okla-homa .Dr . John F. Hackler, professor of preventive

medicine and public health participated in a sym-posium on Recruitment and Training of PublicHealth Personnel at the meeting of the southernbranch of the American Public Health Associa-tion in Memphis, Tennessee, April 22 .Dr . Donald B . McMullen, associate professor of

preventive medicine and public health, has beengranted a two-year leave of absence from theSchool of Medicine . He will be the senior parasitol-ogist with the armed forces in Japan and will beattached to the 406th medical general laboratoryin Tokyo, as head of the department of parasitol-ogy. Information indicates that Dr. McMullen willleave Oklahoma the latter part of this month andgo to Japan by air .

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DR. J . E . FELLOWS . . . O .U . dean of admissionsand chairman of the recently org ized Com-mission of Teacher Education and Certification .

Teacher Education, CertificationCommission Headed by FellowsOklahoma is one of the first states in the na-

tion to set up a Commission on Teacher Educationand Certification.Dr . J . E . Fellows, dean of admissions and rec-

ords at the University, heads this group of 17school men and women as chairman . These rep-resentatives arc responsible to the Council ofTeacher Education. Appointed by the OklahomaEducation Association and the Department ofPublic Instruction, the Council of Teacher Edu-cation is a body of 65 state school men and womenwhich represents the state's educational interests .

Principles and ideals of the infant Commissionon Teacher Education and Certification includeco-ordination of efforts of various agencies of thestate concerned with recruiting, selection, educa-tion, certification and in-service training of teach-ers .The Oklahoma Education Association and the

State Department of Education jointly appointmembers and sponsor the commission.At its first meeting in early March, the group

agreed after considerable discussion that one ofthe most pressing issues facing the teaching pro-fession in Oklahoma is the problem of emergencycertification of teachers now in effect .

Accordingly, a seven-member working commit-tee was appointed from the Council of TeacherEducation to study the problem and to report itsfindings to the commission .Members appointed to the working committee

were Paul B . Allen, '36ma, chairman, superin-tendent of schools, Pauls Valley ; Mrs . Boyd Clark,high school principal, Davis ; Mrs . Lena WoodHayes, director of certification, Oklahoma City :Garold D . Holstine, director of University labora-tory school, Norman : L . J . Laney, county super-intendent, Claremore ; Miss Glen McCarty, countysuperintendent, El Reno, and Elmer Petree, in-service training director, Edmond .

Later in the meeting, after a careful study andinvestigation of the emergency certification prob-lem, the special working committee reported onits findings .As a result of this report the Commission on

Teacher Education and Certification made thefollowing recommendations to the State Boardof Education which were approved :

(1) That war emergency and first grade cer-tificates should be discontinued, effective for theschool year of 1947-48 .

(2) That no certificate should be issued onfewer than 60 semester hours of college work inan accredited school with the last 8 hours beingearned within a maximum of 24 months priorto the issuance of the certificate, and that a nuni-mum of 8 hours of the 60 be professional coursesin education .

(3) That the holder of a one-year certificategranted on fewer semester hours than are re-quired for a standard degree should complete 8semester hours of accredited resident college workwhich will be applicable on a permanent certifi-cate in order to renew such a certificate. This rec-

ommendation does not apply to war emergency orfirst grade certificates, which should not be re-newable .Members serving on the commission include

Paul B . Allen : Mrs . Boyd Clark ; J . E . Fellows :Hugh Carrell, '05, State Board of Education,Oklahoma City : Max Chambers, superintendent ofschools, Okmulgee: N . Conger, dean of educa-tion, Stillwater ; Frank D . Hess, '256s, superin-tendent of schools, Drumright; Oliver Hodge,'33rua, '37plLd, State Superintendent, OklahomaCity : Arnold Joyal, dean of education, Norman :M . A. Nash, '196a, '27nma, Chancellor of HigherRegents, Oklahoma City : Elmer Petree, in-servicedirector, C .S .C ., Edmond ; Ferman Phillips, man-ager, O.E .A ., Oklahoma City : T . D . Rice, co-ordi-nator of instruction, Oklahoma City ; Lewis b: . Solo-mon, 24roa, O.B .U . registrar, Shawnee : Mrs . EffieStanfield, classroom teacher, McAlester ; J. B . Stout,'246s, professor of education, Northwestern StateTeachers College, Alva, and J . R . Stubbs, directorof school service, Stillwater .A recent development of the commission is the

appointment of a five-man planning committeecomprised of Chairman Arnold Joyal, and PaulB . Allen, N . Conger, Mrs . Effie Stanfield and J . B .Stout. Plans include consideration of needs andareas for study by the commission and council,and study of plans available by which nationaleducation foundation spport can be given thecommission .

Cross, Dodge Attend D.C . DinnerPresident George L . Cross and Dr . Homer L.

Dodge, president of Norwich University, North-field, Vermont, and former dean of the UniversityGraduate School, were among the 28 alumni andguests who attended the Washington D . C . Alumnidinner May 1 .

Despite the spur-of-the-moment character ofthe meeting, results were encouraging, accordingto Mrs . Patricia Mannen, chapter president .

Those who attended the dinner, held at theIron Gate Inn, were Mrs . Winifred Johnston Perry,'24ba ; Mrs . Walter Emery : Miss Elizabeth C .Smith, '29 : Bryan L . Rackestraw, '33ba, '39law,and Mrs . Rakestraw, '391aw ; Lt . Col . Robert Clark,'36ba, and Mrs . Clark : Dr . John L. Ewing ; Dr .John L . Salter ; Mrs . Ben Wallace, '28ba, '34rus ;Theodore S . Bland, '27ba, '32lib .sci, and '42ma ;Lt . Col . Webb Wilder, '33ba, '331aw .Mr . and Mrs . Hershel Underhill, '271aw ; Miss

Elizabeth Bascom, '22-'24 : Burnic Merson, '25ba,and Mrs . Merson ; Maj . Neil Keller, '331aw ; L .Ray Awtrcy, '33bus, '38ma, and Mrs . Awtrcy ;Bryce Harlow, '36ba, '42ma, and Mrs . Harlow,'396a ; Miss Frances Hunt, '29ba ; Lt . Col . JohnCoffrnan, '26cng, Lyndcn Mannen, '27ba, '38ma,and Mrs . Manner, '34bs ; President Cross andPresident Dodge .

Mrs . Mannen has been president of the Washing-ton chapter since March 8, replacing Elgin Grose-close, '20ba . Kenneth Markwell, '20eng, is the newVice-president, Elizabeth Pl Bascom, secretary, andBurnie Merson, treasurer . Other retiring officersare Walter B . Emery, '341aw, Vice-president ; andPrances Hunt, secretary-treasurer . The election ofofficers was held in conjunction with an alumnibuffet dinner at Hotel 2400 .

Present at the March 8 affair were several Okla-homa notables in Washington including Lt. Gen .Raymond McLain, Representative Mike Monroney'24ba ; former Representative Victor Wickersham:Representative Preston E . Peden, '36ba, '391aw,and Representative Glen D . Johnson, '31, '39 .

POWELL-EDWARDS : Norma Powell, Man-gum, became the bride of James Edwards, '46-'47,Norman, recently in the home of the bride's par-ents .

Charles T. Mitchell, '38-'42, Norman, and Mrs .Mitchell (Iola Haxel, '42) are the parents of adaughter, Carolyn Kay, born February 10 .

Among Lawton's first settlers were two menwho later became United States senators, ThomasP . Gore and Elmer Thomas .

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