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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
R. L. Swain-Remington Medalist
Purdue Offers Short Course for Drug Clerks
Dr. Robert Lee Swain, of New York City, editor of Drug Topics, national retail druggists' publication, will receive the Remington Honor Medal for 1940 in recognition of his services to the profession of pharmacy, according to the announcement of Dr. Hugo H. Schaefer, Dean of the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy of Long Island University, secretary of the committee on award of the N ew York Branch of the A. PH. A. He is the nineteenth recipient of this medal which is awarded annually by the New York Branch of the ASSOCIATION to the individual who contributed most to pharmacy during the preceding year or whose contributions over a period of years have culminated during the year in results considered most important and advantageous to the profession. Trained as both a pharmacist and a lawyer, Dr. Swain served as Deputy Food and Drug Commissioner of the State of Maryland for seventeen years before he joined the staff of Drug Topics last year. Prior to 1922 he operated a retail pharmacy in Sykesville, Md. He has served as president of the American and the Maryland Pharmaceutical Associations, president of the National Association Boards of Pharmacy, chairman of the National Conference of Pharmaceutical Law Enforcement Officials and is at present a member of the Maryland Board of Pharmacy, of the Board of Trustees of the U. S. Pharmacopc£ia, and of the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education. Dr. Swain took an active part in the enactment of state fair trade laws and the Tydings-Miller Act as chairman of a special committee of the National Association of Retail Druggists, and as chairman of a committee of the A. PH. A. has led a movement during recent years to modernize state pharmacy laws in the interests of greater protection of public health.
At the Tenth Annual Druggists' Business Conference held March 12th and 13th, it was officially announced that the Purdue University School of Pharmacy, under the direction of its Pharmacy Extension Department, will offer a five-day short course for drug clerks. The course will be administered July 8th to 12th for registered and non-registered clerks. This course will consider the philosophy of clerk training, the psychological foundations of human behavior, the principles of economics and salesmanship and other important phases of drug store operation that tend to make salespeople more valuable to themselves, to their employers and to the community in which they live. The course will constitute a well-balanced program of commercial, professional and cultural subjects with time out for participation in the recreational facilities of the University. A registration fee of five dollars will be the only charge for the course, and a certificate of attendance will be issued to those who attend the sessions.
Dr. P. A. Foote, who has been serving as acting director of the University of Florida School of Pharmacy since the resignation of Dr. B. V. Christensen, has been made director of the school. He has been connected with the university since 1928.
Seminar-Columbia University For the two-day Seminar held under the auspices of the Alumni Association of the College of Pharmacy of Columbia University on May 28th and May 29th at the College of Pharmacy, the following program was arranged: "Recent Developments in Vitamins," Dr. Archie Black, Squibb Biological Laboratories; "Recent Developments in Hormones," Dr. William H. Stoner, Schering Corporation; "Better Selling Methods," Don B. Clement, Coty, ·Inc.; "Cosmetic Survey)" Dan Rennick, Editorial Director, Drug Topics; "Ethical Advertising," Murray Breese, Murray Breese Associates; and "Marketing of Hospital and Sick Room Supplies," George Camp, United Drug Company. A thirty-minute question period followed each lecture.
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B. Slocumb, executive secretary of the Minnesota Pharmaceutical Association, is recovering rapidly from an appendectomy performed on April 21s~.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
R. L. Swain-Remington Medalist
Purdue Offers Short Course for Drug Clerks
Dr. Robert Lee Swain, of New York City, editor of Drug Topics, national retail druggists' publication, will receive the Remington Honor Medal for 1940 in recognition of his services to the profession of pharmacy, according to the announcement of Dr. Hugo H. Schaefer, Dean of the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy of Long Island University, secretary of the committee on award of the N ew York Branch of the A. PH. A. He is the nineteenth recipient of this medal which is awarded annually by the New York Branch of the ASSOCIATION to the individual who contributed most to pharmacy during the preceding year or whose contributions over a period of years have culminated during the year in results considered most important and advantageous to the profession. Trained as both a pharmacist and a lawyer, Dr. Swain served as Deputy Food and Drug Commissioner of the State of Maryland for seventeen years before he joined the staff of Drug Topics last year. Prior to 1922 he operated a retail pharmacy in Sykesville, Md. He has served as president of the American and the Maryland Pharmaceutical Associations, president of the National Association Boards of Pharmacy, chairman of the National Conference of Pharmaceutical Law Enforcement Officials and is at present a member of the Maryland Board of Pharmacy, of the Board of Trustees of the U. S. Pharmacopc£ia, and of the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education. Dr. Swain took an active part in the enactment of state fair trade laws and the Tydings-Miller Act as chairman of a special committee of the National Association of Retail Druggists, and as chairman of a committee of the A. PH. A. has led a movement during recent years to modernize state pharmacy laws in the interests of greater protection of public health.
At the Tenth Annual Druggists' Business Conference held March 12th and 13th, it was officially announced that the Purdue University School of Pharmacy, under the direction of its Pharmacy Extension Department, will offer a five-day short course for drug clerks. The course will be administered July 8th to 12th for registered and non-registered clerks. This course will consider the philosophy of clerk training, the psychological foundations of human behavior, the principles of economics and salesmanship and other important phases of drug store operation that tend to make salespeople more valuable to themselves, to their employers and to the community in which they live. The course will constitute a well-balanced program of commercial, professional and cultural subjects with time out for participation in the recreational facilities of the University. A registration fee of five dollars will be the only charge for the course, and a certificate of attendance will be issued to those who attend the sessions.
Dr. P. A. Foote, who has been serving as acting director of the University of Florida School of Pharmacy since the resignation of Dr. B. V. Christensen, has been made director of the school. He has been connected with the university since 1928.
Seminar-Columbia University For the two-day Seminar held under the auspices of the Alumni Association of the College of Pharmacy of Columbia University on May 28th and May 29th at the College of Pharmacy, the following program was arranged: "Recent Developments in Vitamins," Dr. Archie Black, Squibb Biological Laboratories; "Recent Developments in Hormones," Dr. William H. Stoner, Schering Corporation; "Better Selling Methods," Don B. Clement, Coty, ·Inc.; "Cosmetic Survey)" Dan Rennick, Editorial Director, Drug Topics; "Ethical Advertising," Murray Breese, Murray Breese Associates; and "Marketing of Hospital and Sick Room Supplies," George Camp, United Drug Company. A thirty-minute question period followed each lecture.
J.
B. Slocumb, executive secretary of the Minnesota Pharmaceutical Association, is recovering rapidly from an appendectomy performed on April 21s~.