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119th APhA Annual Meeting
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119th APhA
Annual Meeting The Astrodome is focused upon in this view of the Astrodomain-the world's largest family entertainment complex. Behind the Astrodome is the Astrohall with its red and white striped roof, at the right is the Astroworld hotel complex and in left background is the Astroworld amusement park.
A Texas-size program of professional, educational, scientific and entertainment features will hold the attention of more than 4,000 pharmacists and their guests attending the 119th APhA annual meeting in Houston, April 22-28. More than 400 separate functions are scheduled for the week by APhA or related and affiliated organizations in Texas' largest city. Eighteen hotels and motels are offered for ~leeping accommodations, with all meetings at Astrohall, Astroworld Hotel, Holiday Inn, Sheraton Inn, the. Sham'rock Hilton arid the Marriott Motor Hotel. Registration, exhibits and main meetings will be held at Astrohall, the nation's largest meeting and exhibit building. Shuttle bus service will move between Astrohall and the hotels. Almost 500 speakers will address meetings during the full week of programs planned by APhA, its Academy of General Practice of Pharmacy, Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Student APhA, the Military Section and the Women's Auxiliary as well as related and affiliated groups. President Lloyd M. Parks will call the Opening General Session to order, 8: 00 p.m. Sunday evening, April 23, in the Astroworld Ballroom. Welcoming remarks will be made on behalf of Texas pharmacists and the city of Houston, follow~d by President Park's address. Entertainment will be provided by "The Brothers and Sisters" (with Ed GUrlach's Orchestra). APhA business will come under the spotlight at 2: 00 p.m. Monday, April 24, at the first meeting of the House of 106
Delegates. Reporting to delegates will be Board of Trustees Chairman George D. Denmark, Treasurer Grover C. Bowles and Executive Director William S. Apple. Guest speaker will be The Honorable William R. Roy of the U.S. House of Representatives. A physician from Kansas, Congress·m an Roy is the author of a proposed Health Maintenance Organization bill of particular interest to pharmacy. House of Delegates Speaker Philip Sack's address will conclude the meeting. The first Reference Committee will meet Monday at 7: 30 p.m. in As1roworld Ballroom A. This will be the session of the Reference Committee on Organizational Affairs. The Reference Committee on Public Affairs will convene at 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, April 25, in Room 300 at Astrohall, with the Reference Committee on Professional Affairs gathering in the same room at 2:00 p.m. that day. No trip to Houston would be complete withourt: visiting the Astrodome, the world's largest indoor, air-conditioned arena, and APhA members and guests will have their chance Tuesday night, April 25, as spectators at the Houston Astros-Chicago Cubs baseball game. A reserved seat ticket is included in the registration fee. "Consumerism vs Professionalism" will be the theme of a panel discussion scheduled Wednesday morning, April 26, when the General Session meets in the Astroworld Ballroom. Martin Agronsky, noted TV news analyst and commentator, will moderate the panel consisting of Erma Angevine, executive director, Consum,e r Federation of America; Robert J. Klein, economics
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editor, Consumer Reports; The Reverend Thomas F. McMahon, CSV, associate professor, graduate school of business administration, Loyola University of Chicago, and Dr. Edwin F. Rosinski, University of Oalifornia Medical Center. The session will include pres,e ntation of affiliation certificates to -representatives of the state pharmaceutical associations that have affiliated in the past year. Ernest Dichter, president of the Institute for Motivational Research will conclude the 'G enera} SessioI). with an address. Reports will be the order of business on Thursday afternoon at 2: 00 p.m. when the House of Delegates convenes for its final meeting. Besides Reference Committee reports, there will be those from the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws, the Judicial Board and the Committee on Nominations. Following will be the election and installation of House officers for the coming year. The Astroworld Ballroom will be the site that evening of the social highpoint of the meeting, the Annual Banquet and final General Session. Prior to the address of newly installed President Clifton J. Latiolais, there will be the presentation of the three Research Achievement Awards and the installation of new APhA officers and Judicial Board members. Entertainment will conclude the evening's program. Academy of General Practice of Pharmacy Four days of sessions covering a broad spectrum of interests to com-
munity pharmacists are planned by the Academy of General Practice of Pharmacy for its Houston schedule. Academy headquarters will be at the Astroworld Hotel. On Monday, April 24, for example, there will be something of use to almost every practitioner in the more than two dozen papers to be presented during three gatherings. President W. James Bicket will open the first of these at 9: 30 a.m. when he introduces the half-dozen speakers who will examine "Health Maintenance Organizations-Dilemma or Destiny?" That afternoon, two sessions of contributed papers will be held concurrently beginning at 1 : 00 p.m. Among the subjects of the nearly two dozen papers will be self-medication, drug interactions, drug product selection, alcoholism, venereal disease, diabetes, continuing education, employee selection, retainer fee and others. Activities planned for Tuesday, April 25, begin at 9:30 a.m. with a "Symposium on the Pharmacist and Oral Health," presented in cooperation with the American Dental Association and the University of Texas Dental Branch. During the morning portion, the audience will hear about nutritional supplements, fluoride, dental self-medication and
denture cleansers and retaining agents. The afternoon session, beginning at 2:00 p.m. will consider halitosis, caries, periodontal diseases and the pharmacist's contribution to oral health. Academy members will gather with members of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy at noon that same day for a joint luncheon. Guest speaker will be Roger O. Egeberg, MD, special assistant for health policy, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The California physician is well acquainted with pharmacy and APhA affairs and has addressed professional meetings, including the APhA annual meeting in Washington in 1970. Wednesday afternoon, beginning at 2: 00 p.m., has been set aside for the ever-popular "Professional Experience Workshops" program of the Academy. Participants will have a choice of four workshops in which they can discuss in small groups-and through the medium of closed-circuit television-a number of problems occurring in everyday practice. Subjects will include o-t-c drugs, drug information for physicians and pharmacist-patient interaction. The Academy's final morning program, on Thursday, April 27, will give practitioners a choice of attending one of two sessions. "Grand Rounds: Patient Presentations and Discussion" will begin at 9: 00 a.m. and will feature a panel of physicians and pharmacists who will discuss illnesses of specific patients with emphasis on pathology, diagnosis and therapy. The second, concurrent program, "The Competitive Quagrnire-Sink or Swim?" also will get underway at 9: 00 a.m. Among topics to be considered
are financial rewards, chain drugstores and effective .e mployee teams. Concluding the Academy's formal program for the week will be the Second Annual Luncheon. Among the highlights of the luncheon will be the presentation of the Daniel B. Smith Award to Paul W. Lofholm, the installation of officers and an address by a major speaker to be announced later. A new feature in the Academy's program this year will be a Continuing Education Theater, a continuously operating theater in which educational video tapes and films of value and interest to community pharmacists will be shown on a daily basis. The program, to be held in Astrohall, is being developed with the support of Roche Laboratories. Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences Wednesday, April 26, will be a focal point for members of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences who will be attending meetings throughout the week of the Academy's seven sections. President-elect Chester J. Cavallito will address the Annual Luncheon on Wednesday at Astrohall, where Academy meetings will be held that week. A business session will follow immediately at 1: 30 p.m. with officer and committee reports. The Executive Committee will meet on Sunday and again on Wednesday. All of the Academy sections will hold meetings during th~ week, beginning on Monday or Tuesday, April 24 and 25. More than 200 papers will be presented at some 34 sessions of the sections on basic pharmaceutics, economics and administrative science, industrial pharmaceutical technology,
Consumerism vs. professionalism will be the topic of a panel discussion during the General Session, April 26, in the Astroworld Ballroom. Television news analyst and commentator Martin Agronsky (left) will moderate the panel which will include Erma Angevine (below), executive director, Consumer Federation of America; Robert I. Klein (center), economics editor, Consumer Reports, and The Reverend Thomas F. McMahon, CSV, associate professor, graduate school of business administration, Loyola University of Chicago, and Dr. ~dwin F. Rosinski, University of California Medical Center (not shown).
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installation of officers and hear the inaugural remarks of President Jack V. Nicolais. The traditional student reception and dance will be at 10: 00 p.m. , Sunday, April 23. The Chapter Faculty Advisors breakfast will be at 8: 00 a.m. on Monday, April 24, with a Regional Meeting Planning Committee set to gather at 10:00 a .-m., and an executive council meeting scheduled for 1: 00 p.m.
Military Section
Th e Honorable William R. Roy of th e U.S. House of Representatives (left), a physician from Kansas who is author of proposed HMO legislation, will address the first meeting of the Ho use of Delegates on April 24. Ernest Dichter (right), president of the Institute for Mo tivational R esearch, w ill speak at the general session on April 26. His topic will be ((Today's Patient: Friend or Foe?"
medicinal ohemistry, pharmaceutical analysis and control, pharmacology and toxicology, and pharmacognosy and natural products. Monday, April 24, will offer four symposia-"Product Optimization" by IPT; "HMOs and Pharmaceutical Services in Nation al Health Insurance" by economics and administrative scien ce; "Peyote" by pharmacognosy and natural products, and "New Considerations in Drug Administration" by IPT. All but the latter will be in the morning. "Opiate Addiction" will be the subject of a two-part symposium by the medicinal chemistry section on Tuesday morning and afternoon, April 25. IPT will hold a morning "Workshop Reports" and convene in the afternoon for a symposium on "Current Status of Dissolution Testing." Day-long symposia are planned on Thursday, April 27-pharmaceutical analysis and control will present " Evaluation and Quality Control of New Packaging Materials for Drugs," and pharmacology and toxicology will take up "Pharmacokinetics in the Diseased State." Eighty-four papers will be presented at eight sessions of the basic pharmaceutics section during meetings cheduled Monday through Thursday, April 24-27, with a business session on Wednesday, April 26.
Student APhA Student APhA members and officers go Thursday night through Monday morning, April 20- 24, in a concentrated schedule of activities. The executive committee, regional delegates and committee and subcom-
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mittee chairmen will convene at 7: 00 p.m., Thursday, April 20, at the Astroworld Hotel. At 8: 45 a.m., Friday, April 21, the first business session will be called to order in Astrohall, site of the student activities. The morning will be taken up with reports, welcoming remarks and the seating of delegates. At 1: 30 p.m., Friday, April 21, student rap sessions will begin and will be repeated at 3: 30 p.m. to allow participants to attend other sessions of their choice. Six subjects will be examined-pharmaceutical education, health manpower, community health, minority affairs, comprehensive health care and chapter services. Friday at 6: 30 p.m. three Reference Committee workshops will be held, followed at 8: 00 p.m. by sessions of the Reference Committees themselves. Saturday, April 22, is going to be a full day for members. Activities start at 9: 00 a.m. with a Resolutions Committee open session. A Papers Review Forum will meet at 1: 00 p.m., as will the Nominating Committee. At 3: 00 p.m., there will be a candidate review and a Student APhA National Advisory Committee meeting. Organizational, professional and public affairs will be the subjects of three association affairs workshops beginning at 7: 00 p.m. Saturday, April 22, followed by four regional caucus sessions at 10: 00 p.m. The second business session of the meeting convenes at 8:45 a.m., Sunday, April 23, with reference, resolutions and bylaws committees' reports to be given. The third session will come to order at 1: 00 p.m. to receive further reports, hold the election and
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Monday and Wednesday, April 24 and 26, will be the days when APhA 'Military Section members focus on Section affairs. Meeting at noon on Monday for their traditional luncheon, members will witness the presentation of the Military Section Literary Award, followed by the recipient's address. A business session will conclude the luncheon meeting. On Wednesday, April 26, members will hear selected papers and conclude their Houston business agenda. The Section's sessions on Tuesday, April 25, and Thursday, April 27, will be held jointly with members att~nding the ASHP 1: 30 p.m. Second General Session on Tuesday, and the Academy of General Practice of Pharmacy's final program beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday.
Women's Auxiliary The Houston program for the APhA Women's Auxiliary will blend business sessions with entertaining speakers, tours and lunoh and brunch get-togethers. On Monday, April 24, the registered ladies will attend a special program by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center. That afternoon the Auxiliary workshop will convene at 2:30 p.m. in Astroworld, which along with Astrohall, will be the sites of most of the week's meetings. A 9: 00 a.m. coffee for local and state association presidents and student wives will start Tuesday's activities, followed by the first General Session at 10: 00 a.m. when committee and officer reports will be given. The Student Wives' Clubs will gather at 1: 30 p.m. that day. Activities on Wednesday, April 26, will center around the annual Ladies Luncheon, sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company and planned for the Emerald Room of the Shamrock Hilton. A triple helping of entertainment will be offered-Fred Gibbons, one of Houston's most talented pianists will lead his musical group of string bass and drums; Jay Johnson, the ventriloquist, and his friend "Squeaky" will bring
humor and light-heartedness to the gathering, and the Dick Krueger Review will recapture in song and narrated story the lives of popular composers and the history of great American music. Members will journey to the Houston Oaks Hotel Thursday morning, April 27, for the Women's Auxiliary Brunch and second General Session. Reports will follow the 9: 30 a.m. opening invocation, with a full agenda of awards and committee matters. June Benefield, Houston newspaper columnist, speaker, humorist, awardwinning writer on drug abuse and author of the forthcoming book, Why Didn't Somebody Tell Me? will describe why "It Takes a Heap of Living to Make a House a Home." The Session will conclude with the election and installation of officers. Arrangements have been made to tour "theGalleria," a covered shopping center with porticoed shops on balconies surrounding a year-round ice skating rink. The Houston Oaks is one of the more 'than 100 shops and facilities at theGalleria. Arrangements also have been made for Auxiliary members to tour the Astrodome. A ticket in their coupon books can be used Monday through Friday for any of the three daily tours -11: 00 a.m., 1: 00 p.m. and 3: 00 p.m. ASHP
The presentation of almost two score papers, House of Delegates meetings, breakfast and dinner gatherings and entertainment will fill the week for members of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, headquartering at the Shamrock Hilton. The papers, on a wide variety of professional subjects, will be presented at the General Sessions, slated for Tuesday at 9 :00 a.m. and 1: 30 p.m. and on Thursday, April 27, when two concurrent sections will get underway at 9: 00 a.m. The House of Delegates will meet at 9: 00 a.m. on Monday, April 24, to receive reports of committees, councils and officers, followed by the address of ASHP President R. David Anderson. The final meeting of the House will be at 1 : 30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 26, with last reports, the election and installation of officers and the inaugural address of incoming President Wendall T. Hill Jf. The traditional ASHP breakfast will be on Tuesday, April 25, beginning at 7: 30 a.m., while the ASHP Ladies Tea will be held that day at 3: 00 p.m. The Harvey A.K. Whitney Lecture Award Reception and Dinner will begin at 7: 00 p.m. and will have as its highlight the address of award recipient William M. Heller.
Max Tishler, the current president of the American Chemical Society and a professor of chemistry at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, will be invested with honorary membership in the American Pharmaceutical Association at its 1972 annual meeting in Houston. Tishler, who concluded a 33-year career with Merck & Company in 1970, retiring as senior vice president of research and development, will receive his certificate of honorary membership during the APhA House of Delegates session, Monday afternoon, April 24.
The ASHP Board of Directors will convene at 9:00 a.m. Saturday, April 22, and the Resolutions Committee will work on its agenda on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The Nominations Committee will meet on Monday and Tuesday and the Committee of Delegates to the APhA House will gather on Sunday and Thursday. ACA The reception and banquet of the American College of Apothecaries will begin at 7:00 p.'m. Tuesday, April 25, in Astro I-III, of the Astroworld Hotel. On hand to greet members and guests will be the ACA officers, led by ACA President Joseph G. King and the new executive secretary, D.C. Huffman Jr. The Admissions Committee will convene at 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, in the ACA Suite at the AS'troworld Hotel. AIHP
Members of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy will be attending business meetings, workshops, luncheons and two sessions of contributed papers from Sunday through Tuesday, April 23-26. The workshop for writers of history of pharmacy will begin at 2: 00 p.m., Sunday, April 23, in the Marriott Motor Hotel, site of AIHP's activities. The theme will be "Writing the Historical Paper." Earlier that day, the Council will meet in executive session. It will convene again on Monday, April 24, for a 7:30 a.m. breakfast. The annual business meeting will open at 9: 30 a.m., Monday, and will include reports of officers and committees, a presentation to AIHP by the Medical Heritage Society and the installation of new officers and Councilors. Monday at 1: 30 p .m. members will gather for the first contributed papers session. Following a short business session, eight papers will be presented. The second contributed papers session will be held at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 25, with another eight papers
and a concluding business session. The Kremers Award Reception and Luncheon will begin at Noon, Tuesday, April 25, with presentation of the award and a lecture by the recipient.
AACP A member of Congress and an HEW official will make appearances during the 73Td annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Four General Sessions are planned during the week at Astrohall, beginning Monday, April 24, with The Honorable Paul G. Rogers, chairman of the Subcommittee on Public Health and Environment, U.S. House of Representatives, addressing that first session. The Florida Democrat has been involved in almost every health 'm atter or subject that has gone through the House. Also on the agenda for the 9:00 a.m. meeting are AACP President Arthur E. Schwarting's address, greetings from P. Claveau of the Association .of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada and preliminary and sum:mary committee reports. Dr. Rogert O. Egeberg, special assistant for health policy, HEW, will speak to AACP members and guests at a joint luncheon with members of the APhA Academy of General Practice of Pharmacy on Tuesday, April 25. The second General Session will convene afterward at 2:00 p .m. Summary reports will be received, there will be discussion of two committee reports and the Lyman Award will be presented. Summary reports will resume at the Wednesday, April 26, General Session, convening at 1: 30 p.m. Following these, members will hear the report of the AACP representatives to the APhA Task Force on the definition of "clinical pharmacy," "institutional pharmacy" and "group practice," and a report on the feasibility study of establishing a manpower information system. The final and fourth General Session on Thursday, April 27, will open Vol. NS12, No.3, March 1972
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Roger O. Egeberg, MD (left), HEW special assistant for health policy, will address a joint luncheon of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the APhA Academy of General Practice of Pharmacy on Tuesday, April 25. The Honorable Paul G. Rogers (below, left) chairman of the Subcommittee on Public Health and En. vironment, U.S. House of Representatives, will speak before the first general session of AACP Monday, April 24. BNDD Director John Ingersoll (below, right) will address the April 22 National Association of Boards of Pharmacy luncheon.
speak at the luncheon that day and the first special meeting will .open at 2: 00 p.m. with internship training as the subject of interest. Sunday's activities begin at 9: 00 a.m. with a second special meeting, this one concentrating on "Fitness to Practice Pharmacy." At 2:00 p.m. members will gather at a third special meeting. Dis,cussion subjeots include a model state controlled substances act, a proposed model practice act and a state poison prevention packaging act. The final business meeting on Monday at 9: 00 a.m., April 24, will receive summary reports of committee ' matters and conclude with the nomination, election and installation of officers. The Executive Committee will meet Tuesday morning, April 25, to conclude its business agenda, first considered at its day-long meeting on Thursday, April 20.
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at 9: 00 a.m. with several reports and the address of Vice President Robert V. Petersen. Following an executive session, AACP will install its officers for 1972-73. AACP Executive Committee meetings are scheduled all day Saturday and Sunday, April 22 and 23, and half-days on Thursday and Friday, April 27 and 28. The Conference of Teachers and the four AACP sections plan extensive programs throughout the week. NABP A nationally prominent speaker, a workshop, two luncheons, three special meetings and two business sessions will fill the schedule for members of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, Friday, April 21, through Monday, April 24. The Secretaries Workshop will begin at 2:00 p.m., Friday, April 21, at the Marriott, the NABP headquarters. A nationally known authority will conduct an office and field efficiency management seminar for 110
those attending. At 7 :00 p.m. there will be an Attorneys Workshop devoted to topics of interest to lawyers and secretaries serving boards. The first of two business sessions begins at 9:00 a.m., Saturday, April 22, and will include officer and committee reports and the address of NABP President John E. Quistgard. John Ingersoll, director, Bureau of N arcotics and Dangerous Drugs, will
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A full program at the Asttr oworld Hotel is scheduled for the members of the National Council of State Pharmaceutical Association Executives when they assemble in Houston. Friday, April 21, will be devoted to afternoon meetings of the fGllowing committees--executive, legislative, publications and public relations, nominating, resolutions and bylaws. The first of four business sessions that weekend will begin at 8: 30 a.m. Saturday, April 22, and will include the report of NCSP AE President Francis B. Cole. A reception and luncheon will precede the second business session beginning at 1: 30 that afternoon. The third business session convenes at 8: 30 a.m. on Sunday, April 23, followed by a reception and luncheon. Agenda items for the final business session Sunday afternoon at 1: 3'0 include the election and installation of officers . •
Placement Center Set for Houston
The APhA Professional ,Placement Center will again be available at this year's APhA annual meeting in Houston for those APhA members seeking new positions in all areas of pharmaceutical practice. The serv.ice will be provided by the Texas Empl,o yment Commission. Application forms for advance registration are available from the APhA Division of Communications, 2215 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20037. Registrants also may file with the .A:PhA Professional Placement Center upon prrival in Houston. Completed applicant and employer forms should be mailed before March 31 to Jack S_ Motley, Manager, Commercial and Professional Office, Texas Employment Commission, 2800 Travis Street, Houston, TX 77001.
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119th APhA
Annual Meeting The Astrodome is focused upon in this view of the Astrodomain-the world's largest family entertainment complex. Behind the Astrodome is the Astrohall with its red and white striped roof, at the right is the Astroworld hotel complex and in left background is the Astroworld amusement park.
A Texas-size program of professional, educational, scientific and entertainment features will hold the attention of more than 4,000 pharmacists and their guests attending the 119th APhA annual meeting in Houston, April 22-28. More than 400 separate functions are scheduled for the week by APhA or related and affiliated organizations in Texas' largest city. Eighteen hotels and motels are offered for ~leeping accommodations, with all meetings at Astrohall, Astroworld Hotel, Holiday Inn, Sheraton Inn, the. Sham'rock Hilton arid the Marriott Motor Hotel. Registration, exhibits and main meetings will be held at Astrohall, the nation's largest meeting and exhibit building. Shuttle bus service will move between Astrohall and the hotels. Almost 500 speakers will address meetings during the full week of programs planned by APhA, its Academy of General Practice of Pharmacy, Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Student APhA, the Military Section and the Women's Auxiliary as well as related and affiliated groups. President Lloyd M. Parks will call the Opening General Session to order, 8: 00 p.m. Sunday evening, April 23, in the Astroworld Ballroom. Welcoming remarks will be made on behalf of Texas pharmacists and the city of Houston, follow~d by President Park's address. Entertainment will be provided by "The Brothers and Sisters" (with Ed GUrlach's Orchestra). APhA business will come under the spotlight at 2: 00 p.m. Monday, April 24, at the first meeting of the House of 106
Delegates. Reporting to delegates will be Board of Trustees Chairman George D. Denmark, Treasurer Grover C. Bowles and Executive Director William S. Apple. Guest speaker will be The Honorable William R. Roy of the U.S. House of Representatives. A physician from Kansas, Congress·m an Roy is the author of a proposed Health Maintenance Organization bill of particular interest to pharmacy. House of Delegates Speaker Philip Sack's address will conclude the meeting. The first Reference Committee will meet Monday at 7: 30 p.m. in As1roworld Ballroom A. This will be the session of the Reference Committee on Organizational Affairs. The Reference Committee on Public Affairs will convene at 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, April 25, in Room 300 at Astrohall, with the Reference Committee on Professional Affairs gathering in the same room at 2:00 p.m. that day. No trip to Houston would be complete withourt: visiting the Astrodome, the world's largest indoor, air-conditioned arena, and APhA members and guests will have their chance Tuesday night, April 25, as spectators at the Houston Astros-Chicago Cubs baseball game. A reserved seat ticket is included in the registration fee. "Consumerism vs Professionalism" will be the theme of a panel discussion scheduled Wednesday morning, April 26, when the General Session meets in the Astroworld Ballroom. Martin Agronsky, noted TV news analyst and commentator, will moderate the panel consisting of Erma Angevine, executive director, Consum,e r Federation of America; Robert J. Klein, economics
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editor, Consumer Reports; The Reverend Thomas F. McMahon, CSV, associate professor, graduate school of business administration, Loyola University of Chicago, and Dr. Edwin F. Rosinski, University of Oalifornia Medical Center. The session will include pres,e ntation of affiliation certificates to -representatives of the state pharmaceutical associations that have affiliated in the past year. Ernest Dichter, president of the Institute for Motivational Research will conclude the 'G enera} SessioI). with an address. Reports will be the order of business on Thursday afternoon at 2: 00 p.m. when the House of Delegates convenes for its final meeting. Besides Reference Committee reports, there will be those from the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws, the Judicial Board and the Committee on Nominations. Following will be the election and installation of House officers for the coming year. The Astroworld Ballroom will be the site that evening of the social highpoint of the meeting, the Annual Banquet and final General Session. Prior to the address of newly installed President Clifton J. Latiolais, there will be the presentation of the three Research Achievement Awards and the installation of new APhA officers and Judicial Board members. Entertainment will conclude the evening's program. Academy of General Practice of Pharmacy Four days of sessions covering a broad spectrum of interests to com-
munity pharmacists are planned by the Academy of General Practice of Pharmacy for its Houston schedule. Academy headquarters will be at the Astroworld Hotel. On Monday, April 24, for example, there will be something of use to almost every practitioner in the more than two dozen papers to be presented during three gatherings. President W. James Bicket will open the first of these at 9: 30 a.m. when he introduces the half-dozen speakers who will examine "Health Maintenance Organizations-Dilemma or Destiny?" That afternoon, two sessions of contributed papers will be held concurrently beginning at 1 : 00 p.m. Among the subjects of the nearly two dozen papers will be self-medication, drug interactions, drug product selection, alcoholism, venereal disease, diabetes, continuing education, employee selection, retainer fee and others. Activities planned for Tuesday, April 25, begin at 9:30 a.m. with a "Symposium on the Pharmacist and Oral Health," presented in cooperation with the American Dental Association and the University of Texas Dental Branch. During the morning portion, the audience will hear about nutritional supplements, fluoride, dental self-medication and
denture cleansers and retaining agents. The afternoon session, beginning at 2:00 p.m. will consider halitosis, caries, periodontal diseases and the pharmacist's contribution to oral health. Academy members will gather with members of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy at noon that same day for a joint luncheon. Guest speaker will be Roger O. Egeberg, MD, special assistant for health policy, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The California physician is well acquainted with pharmacy and APhA affairs and has addressed professional meetings, including the APhA annual meeting in Washington in 1970. Wednesday afternoon, beginning at 2: 00 p.m., has been set aside for the ever-popular "Professional Experience Workshops" program of the Academy. Participants will have a choice of four workshops in which they can discuss in small groups-and through the medium of closed-circuit television-a number of problems occurring in everyday practice. Subjects will include o-t-c drugs, drug information for physicians and pharmacist-patient interaction. The Academy's final morning program, on Thursday, April 27, will give practitioners a choice of attending one of two sessions. "Grand Rounds: Patient Presentations and Discussion" will begin at 9: 00 a.m. and will feature a panel of physicians and pharmacists who will discuss illnesses of specific patients with emphasis on pathology, diagnosis and therapy. The second, concurrent program, "The Competitive Quagrnire-Sink or Swim?" also will get underway at 9: 00 a.m. Among topics to be considered
are financial rewards, chain drugstores and effective .e mployee teams. Concluding the Academy's formal program for the week will be the Second Annual Luncheon. Among the highlights of the luncheon will be the presentation of the Daniel B. Smith Award to Paul W. Lofholm, the installation of officers and an address by a major speaker to be announced later. A new feature in the Academy's program this year will be a Continuing Education Theater, a continuously operating theater in which educational video tapes and films of value and interest to community pharmacists will be shown on a daily basis. The program, to be held in Astrohall, is being developed with the support of Roche Laboratories. Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences Wednesday, April 26, will be a focal point for members of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences who will be attending meetings throughout the week of the Academy's seven sections. President-elect Chester J. Cavallito will address the Annual Luncheon on Wednesday at Astrohall, where Academy meetings will be held that week. A business session will follow immediately at 1: 30 p.m. with officer and committee reports. The Executive Committee will meet on Sunday and again on Wednesday. All of the Academy sections will hold meetings during th~ week, beginning on Monday or Tuesday, April 24 and 25. More than 200 papers will be presented at some 34 sessions of the sections on basic pharmaceutics, economics and administrative science, industrial pharmaceutical technology,
Consumerism vs. professionalism will be the topic of a panel discussion during the General Session, April 26, in the Astroworld Ballroom. Television news analyst and commentator Martin Agronsky (left) will moderate the panel which will include Erma Angevine (below), executive director, Consumer Federation of America; Robert I. Klein (center), economics editor, Consumer Reports, and The Reverend Thomas F. McMahon, CSV, associate professor, graduate school of business administration, Loyola University of Chicago, and Dr. ~dwin F. Rosinski, University of California Medical Center (not shown).
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installation of officers and hear the inaugural remarks of President Jack V. Nicolais. The traditional student reception and dance will be at 10: 00 p.m. , Sunday, April 23. The Chapter Faculty Advisors breakfast will be at 8: 00 a.m. on Monday, April 24, with a Regional Meeting Planning Committee set to gather at 10:00 a .-m., and an executive council meeting scheduled for 1: 00 p.m.
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Th e Honorable William R. Roy of th e U.S. House of Representatives (left), a physician from Kansas who is author of proposed HMO legislation, will address the first meeting of the Ho use of Delegates on April 24. Ernest Dichter (right), president of the Institute for Mo tivational R esearch, w ill speak at the general session on April 26. His topic will be ((Today's Patient: Friend or Foe?"
medicinal ohemistry, pharmaceutical analysis and control, pharmacology and toxicology, and pharmacognosy and natural products. Monday, April 24, will offer four symposia-"Product Optimization" by IPT; "HMOs and Pharmaceutical Services in Nation al Health Insurance" by economics and administrative scien ce; "Peyote" by pharmacognosy and natural products, and "New Considerations in Drug Administration" by IPT. All but the latter will be in the morning. "Opiate Addiction" will be the subject of a two-part symposium by the medicinal chemistry section on Tuesday morning and afternoon, April 25. IPT will hold a morning "Workshop Reports" and convene in the afternoon for a symposium on "Current Status of Dissolution Testing." Day-long symposia are planned on Thursday, April 27-pharmaceutical analysis and control will present " Evaluation and Quality Control of New Packaging Materials for Drugs," and pharmacology and toxicology will take up "Pharmacokinetics in the Diseased State." Eighty-four papers will be presented at eight sessions of the basic pharmaceutics section during meetings cheduled Monday through Thursday, April 24-27, with a business session on Wednesday, April 26.
Student APhA Student APhA members and officers go Thursday night through Monday morning, April 20- 24, in a concentrated schedule of activities. The executive committee, regional delegates and committee and subcom-
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mittee chairmen will convene at 7: 00 p.m., Thursday, April 20, at the Astroworld Hotel. At 8: 45 a.m., Friday, April 21, the first business session will be called to order in Astrohall, site of the student activities. The morning will be taken up with reports, welcoming remarks and the seating of delegates. At 1: 30 p.m., Friday, April 21, student rap sessions will begin and will be repeated at 3: 30 p.m. to allow participants to attend other sessions of their choice. Six subjects will be examined-pharmaceutical education, health manpower, community health, minority affairs, comprehensive health care and chapter services. Friday at 6: 30 p.m. three Reference Committee workshops will be held, followed at 8: 00 p.m. by sessions of the Reference Committees themselves. Saturday, April 22, is going to be a full day for members. Activities start at 9: 00 a.m. with a Resolutions Committee open session. A Papers Review Forum will meet at 1: 00 p.m., as will the Nominating Committee. At 3: 00 p.m., there will be a candidate review and a Student APhA National Advisory Committee meeting. Organizational, professional and public affairs will be the subjects of three association affairs workshops beginning at 7: 00 p.m. Saturday, April 22, followed by four regional caucus sessions at 10: 00 p.m. The second business session of the meeting convenes at 8:45 a.m., Sunday, April 23, with reference, resolutions and bylaws committees' reports to be given. The third session will come to order at 1: 00 p.m. to receive further reports, hold the election and
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Monday and Wednesday, April 24 and 26, will be the days when APhA 'Military Section members focus on Section affairs. Meeting at noon on Monday for their traditional luncheon, members will witness the presentation of the Military Section Literary Award, followed by the recipient's address. A business session will conclude the luncheon meeting. On Wednesday, April 26, members will hear selected papers and conclude their Houston business agenda. The Section's sessions on Tuesday, April 25, and Thursday, April 27, will be held jointly with members att~nding the ASHP 1: 30 p.m. Second General Session on Tuesday, and the Academy of General Practice of Pharmacy's final program beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday.
Women's Auxiliary The Houston program for the APhA Women's Auxiliary will blend business sessions with entertaining speakers, tours and lunoh and brunch get-togethers. On Monday, April 24, the registered ladies will attend a special program by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center. That afternoon the Auxiliary workshop will convene at 2:30 p.m. in Astroworld, which along with Astrohall, will be the sites of most of the week's meetings. A 9: 00 a.m. coffee for local and state association presidents and student wives will start Tuesday's activities, followed by the first General Session at 10: 00 a.m. when committee and officer reports will be given. The Student Wives' Clubs will gather at 1: 30 p.m. that day. Activities on Wednesday, April 26, will center around the annual Ladies Luncheon, sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company and planned for the Emerald Room of the Shamrock Hilton. A triple helping of entertainment will be offered-Fred Gibbons, one of Houston's most talented pianists will lead his musical group of string bass and drums; Jay Johnson, the ventriloquist, and his friend "Squeaky" will bring
humor and light-heartedness to the gathering, and the Dick Krueger Review will recapture in song and narrated story the lives of popular composers and the history of great American music. Members will journey to the Houston Oaks Hotel Thursday morning, April 27, for the Women's Auxiliary Brunch and second General Session. Reports will follow the 9: 30 a.m. opening invocation, with a full agenda of awards and committee matters. June Benefield, Houston newspaper columnist, speaker, humorist, awardwinning writer on drug abuse and author of the forthcoming book, Why Didn't Somebody Tell Me? will describe why "It Takes a Heap of Living to Make a House a Home." The Session will conclude with the election and installation of officers. Arrangements have been made to tour "theGalleria," a covered shopping center with porticoed shops on balconies surrounding a year-round ice skating rink. The Houston Oaks is one of the more 'than 100 shops and facilities at theGalleria. Arrangements also have been made for Auxiliary members to tour the Astrodome. A ticket in their coupon books can be used Monday through Friday for any of the three daily tours -11: 00 a.m., 1: 00 p.m. and 3: 00 p.m. ASHP
The presentation of almost two score papers, House of Delegates meetings, breakfast and dinner gatherings and entertainment will fill the week for members of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, headquartering at the Shamrock Hilton. The papers, on a wide variety of professional subjects, will be presented at the General Sessions, slated for Tuesday at 9 :00 a.m. and 1: 30 p.m. and on Thursday, April 27, when two concurrent sections will get underway at 9: 00 a.m. The House of Delegates will meet at 9: 00 a.m. on Monday, April 24, to receive reports of committees, councils and officers, followed by the address of ASHP President R. David Anderson. The final meeting of the House will be at 1 : 30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 26, with last reports, the election and installation of officers and the inaugural address of incoming President Wendall T. Hill Jf. The traditional ASHP breakfast will be on Tuesday, April 25, beginning at 7: 30 a.m., while the ASHP Ladies Tea will be held that day at 3: 00 p.m. The Harvey A.K. Whitney Lecture Award Reception and Dinner will begin at 7: 00 p.m. and will have as its highlight the address of award recipient William M. Heller.
Max Tishler, the current president of the American Chemical Society and a professor of chemistry at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, will be invested with honorary membership in the American Pharmaceutical Association at its 1972 annual meeting in Houston. Tishler, who concluded a 33-year career with Merck & Company in 1970, retiring as senior vice president of research and development, will receive his certificate of honorary membership during the APhA House of Delegates session, Monday afternoon, April 24.
The ASHP Board of Directors will convene at 9:00 a.m. Saturday, April 22, and the Resolutions Committee will work on its agenda on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The Nominations Committee will meet on Monday and Tuesday and the Committee of Delegates to the APhA House will gather on Sunday and Thursday. ACA The reception and banquet of the American College of Apothecaries will begin at 7:00 p.'m. Tuesday, April 25, in Astro I-III, of the Astroworld Hotel. On hand to greet members and guests will be the ACA officers, led by ACA President Joseph G. King and the new executive secretary, D.C. Huffman Jr. The Admissions Committee will convene at 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, in the ACA Suite at the AS'troworld Hotel. AIHP
Members of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy will be attending business meetings, workshops, luncheons and two sessions of contributed papers from Sunday through Tuesday, April 23-26. The workshop for writers of history of pharmacy will begin at 2: 00 p.m., Sunday, April 23, in the Marriott Motor Hotel, site of AIHP's activities. The theme will be "Writing the Historical Paper." Earlier that day, the Council will meet in executive session. It will convene again on Monday, April 24, for a 7:30 a.m. breakfast. The annual business meeting will open at 9: 30 a.m., Monday, and will include reports of officers and committees, a presentation to AIHP by the Medical Heritage Society and the installation of new officers and Councilors. Monday at 1: 30 p .m. members will gather for the first contributed papers session. Following a short business session, eight papers will be presented. The second contributed papers session will be held at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 25, with another eight papers
and a concluding business session. The Kremers Award Reception and Luncheon will begin at Noon, Tuesday, April 25, with presentation of the award and a lecture by the recipient.
AACP A member of Congress and an HEW official will make appearances during the 73Td annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Four General Sessions are planned during the week at Astrohall, beginning Monday, April 24, with The Honorable Paul G. Rogers, chairman of the Subcommittee on Public Health and Environment, U.S. House of Representatives, addressing that first session. The Florida Democrat has been involved in almost every health 'm atter or subject that has gone through the House. Also on the agenda for the 9:00 a.m. meeting are AACP President Arthur E. Schwarting's address, greetings from P. Claveau of the Association .of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada and preliminary and sum:mary committee reports. Dr. Rogert O. Egeberg, special assistant for health policy, HEW, will speak to AACP members and guests at a joint luncheon with members of the APhA Academy of General Practice of Pharmacy on Tuesday, April 25. The second General Session will convene afterward at 2:00 p .m. Summary reports will be received, there will be discussion of two committee reports and the Lyman Award will be presented. Summary reports will resume at the Wednesday, April 26, General Session, convening at 1: 30 p.m. Following these, members will hear the report of the AACP representatives to the APhA Task Force on the definition of "clinical pharmacy," "institutional pharmacy" and "group practice," and a report on the feasibility study of establishing a manpower information system. The final and fourth General Session on Thursday, April 27, will open Vol. NS12, No.3, March 1972
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Roger O. Egeberg, MD (left), HEW special assistant for health policy, will address a joint luncheon of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the APhA Academy of General Practice of Pharmacy on Tuesday, April 25. The Honorable Paul G. Rogers (below, left) chairman of the Subcommittee on Public Health and En. vironment, U.S. House of Representatives, will speak before the first general session of AACP Monday, April 24. BNDD Director John Ingersoll (below, right) will address the April 22 National Association of Boards of Pharmacy luncheon.
speak at the luncheon that day and the first special meeting will .open at 2: 00 p.m. with internship training as the subject of interest. Sunday's activities begin at 9: 00 a.m. with a second special meeting, this one concentrating on "Fitness to Practice Pharmacy." At 2:00 p.m. members will gather at a third special meeting. Dis,cussion subjeots include a model state controlled substances act, a proposed model practice act and a state poison prevention packaging act. The final business meeting on Monday at 9: 00 a.m., April 24, will receive summary reports of committee ' matters and conclude with the nomination, election and installation of officers. The Executive Committee will meet Tuesday morning, April 25, to conclude its business agenda, first considered at its day-long meeting on Thursday, April 20.
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at 9: 00 a.m. with several reports and the address of Vice President Robert V. Petersen. Following an executive session, AACP will install its officers for 1972-73. AACP Executive Committee meetings are scheduled all day Saturday and Sunday, April 22 and 23, and half-days on Thursday and Friday, April 27 and 28. The Conference of Teachers and the four AACP sections plan extensive programs throughout the week. NABP A nationally prominent speaker, a workshop, two luncheons, three special meetings and two business sessions will fill the schedule for members of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, Friday, April 21, through Monday, April 24. The Secretaries Workshop will begin at 2:00 p.m., Friday, April 21, at the Marriott, the NABP headquarters. A nationally known authority will conduct an office and field efficiency management seminar for 110
those attending. At 7 :00 p.m. there will be an Attorneys Workshop devoted to topics of interest to lawyers and secretaries serving boards. The first of two business sessions begins at 9:00 a.m., Saturday, April 22, and will include officer and committee reports and the address of NABP President John E. Quistgard. John Ingersoll, director, Bureau of N arcotics and Dangerous Drugs, will
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A full program at the Asttr oworld Hotel is scheduled for the members of the National Council of State Pharmaceutical Association Executives when they assemble in Houston. Friday, April 21, will be devoted to afternoon meetings of the fGllowing committees--executive, legislative, publications and public relations, nominating, resolutions and bylaws. The first of four business sessions that weekend will begin at 8: 30 a.m. Saturday, April 22, and will include the report of NCSP AE President Francis B. Cole. A reception and luncheon will precede the second business session beginning at 1: 30 that afternoon. The third business session convenes at 8: 30 a.m. on Sunday, April 23, followed by a reception and luncheon. Agenda items for the final business session Sunday afternoon at 1: 3'0 include the election and installation of officers . •
Placement Center Set for Houston
The APhA Professional ,Placement Center will again be available at this year's APhA annual meeting in Houston for those APhA members seeking new positions in all areas of pharmaceutical practice. The serv.ice will be provided by the Texas Empl,o yment Commission. Application forms for advance registration are available from the APhA Division of Communications, 2215 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20037. Registrants also may file with the .A:PhA Professional Placement Center upon prrival in Houston. Completed applicant and employer forms should be mailed before March 31 to Jack S_ Motley, Manager, Commercial and Professional Office, Texas Employment Commission, 2800 Travis Street, Houston, TX 77001.
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