Pharmacy Week Plans Completed

PHARMACY WEEK PLANS COMPLETED N

ATIONAL Pharmacy Week for 1947, to be observed ApriI2D-26, will inaugurate a new policy for making this annual event an outstanding contribution to health education in the United States. In cooperation with the American Cancer Society, the forthcoming Pharmacy Week will be dedicated to the cancer control program. Thus American pharmacy will make an important contribution to a public health program of major significance. In expanding National Pharmacy Week th~ AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION will preserve the traditional features of the Pharmacy Week observance but will add an opportunity for the pharmacist to demonstrate his function as a source of public health information. Coordinated effort on the part of pharmacists with local units of the American Cancer Society during Pharmacy Week is expected to make a strong impress upon the public. The Pharmacy Week Committee invites the participation of every pharmacist during April 20-26. About February 10 a mailing will be received by every pharmacy in the United States. This material outlines the program and includes a pledge card that must be returned to the Pharmacy Week Committee as a request for a window display and leaflets for use during Pharmacy Week. The colorful official display, on card stock, will be delivered to your pharmacy ready for installa-

tion-if the pledge card is returned. There is no charge for Pharmacy Week participation materials. Chairman Tom D. Rowe of the Pharmacy Week Committee emphasizes, however, that the number of pledgcs returned will determine the number of displays and other free participation materials to be produced. Since the pledge cards will also be used as a mailing list to deliver materials, he points out that it is of utmost importance for pharmacists to sign and mail the pledge card promptly upon receipt. This is the first year that a complete Pharmacy Week window display has been offered without charge to every pharmacy in the country. In addition to emphasizing the pharmacist's professional service to his community, the display will include educational material on the control of cancer. This will be supplemented by a supply of Pharmacy Week leaflets on cancer control, obtainable along with the display by return of the pledge card which each pharmacy will soon receive by mail. Plans are also being made for broadcasts at the national level, and radio scripts and announcements will be available for local use. There will be recognition by government officials, a public relations program for the press, and ample material available for Pharmacy Week addresses before civic clubs, high school assemblies and other public gatherings. The window display competition will be con-

PLAN NOW TO PARTICIPATE IN PHARMACY WEEK

A PROGRAM FOR THE .PRACTICING PHARMACIST 31

32

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION

ducted as in former years. The Committee hopes that pharmacists throughout tte country will devote two windows to professional material during Pharmacy Week: one window for the official display; a second for an original display expressive of the individual pharmacy for entry in the national competition. Retail pharmacy displays will compete for the Robert J. Ruth Trophy, and a separate A. PH. A. award will go to the best display at colleges of pharmacy. A new division of the competition will provide awards for displays or exhibits in public places other than a retail pharmacy such as libraries, theater lobbies, banks and publicutilities windows. Any pharmacist or group of pharmacists-including state and local associations and A. PH. A. branches-may have an entry in this new division, which offers extensive public relations possibilities. The J?harmacy Week Committee asks that pharmacists begin planning local programs' and exhibits now. Further details will be issued from time to time through pharmaceutical publications and national and state associations.

A Greater Stature The scope of the new program brings to Pharmacy Week a stature and opportunity for service that pharmacists believe will provide national recognition to the profession and the participating pharmacist. The possibilities of the new program are limited only by the extent to which individual pharmacists are willing to utilize the services being offered, the Pharmacy Week Committee points out. Every pharmacist who participates will (1) contribute materially to the education of the public on one of our great public health problems, and (2) improve his professional status in the community and conclusively demonstrate the pharmacist's important role in disseminating public health information. The Pharmacy Week Committee emphasizes that the dedication of Pharmacy Week to cancer control April 20-26 does not involve pharmacists in fund raising activities that the American Cancer Society will conduct during the month of April to finance its work in this field. The Society and the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION alike recognize the need for placing information on cancer control in American homes and minds, and it is to this objective that Pharmacy Week is dedicated. The A. PH. A. is joined by the N. A. R. D. in urging every pharmacist to take part in the forthcoming observance.

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE A. PH. A.

A

LEE ADAMS, . retail pharmacist from Glencoe, Ill. , is the first vicepresident of the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIA-

for the 19461947 term. Mr. Adams has served . as president of the National AssociaA . LEE ADAMS tion of Boards of Pharmacy, and has been a member of the Illinois Board of Pharmacy since 1938. As a member of the Board, he was influential in establishing better facilities for conducting pharmacy examinations for registration in Illinois. Prior to his election as president of N . A. B. P., he served as vice-president of the organization and as chairman of District 4. Born in Chicago where he attended grade school, Mr. Adams later resided in Winnetka. Here he attended high school and in 1905 began his apprenticeship in pharmacy. He was graduated from the Northwestern University College of Pharmacy in 1909. Obtaining his pharmacist's license in Illinois by examination, he opened a retail pharmacy in Winnetka , where he practiced until 1933. Later he acquired the pharmacy which he now operates at Glencoe. Mr. Adams is a member of the American Legion, a Rotarian, and a Mason. He has also served as president of the Glencoe Chamber of Commerce. TION

(For biographical sketch of President Serles see September, 1946, issue.)

CLEANING GLASSWARE Although concentrated sulfuric acid saturated with potassium or sodium dichromate has been generally used for cleaning glassware, it has been reported that it is extremely difficult to rid glassware of all the "cleaning solution." Ten rinsings of glassware with water removed all dichromate from the glass surface but there were still appreciable amounts within. the glass. If the glass were allowed contact with water for several hours, it would yield the dichromate to solution. Because of this factor and its great toxicity for living cells and enzymes, it is believed advisable to clean glassware by another method, such as 10% nitric acid, a detergent, or 1 to 5% trisodium phosphate. ~Science 104: 426, 1946