Committees for the second annual midwest regional meeting of APHA's Industrial Section have been organized to arrange the October 15 meeting in Chicago. Under General , Chairman Robert E. Singiser committees areProgram-Philip J. McAteer, chairman, Eugene Brockemeyer, Edward D. Carkhuff, Clarence J. Endicott and Erwin L. Knoechel Publicity-John W. Boenigk, chairman, Myron W. McKinney and P. Robert Rasanen Arrangements-Robert E. Singiser and Robert A. Wollert, co-chairmen, W. Mayo Higgins, David E. Memey and George L. Stanko Section members Carl Lintner and Earl Kimes are available as advisers.
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Any registered pharmacist graduated from an approved school of pharmacy and accepted for admission to the graduate school of the University of Colorado is eligible for the university's new co-operative graduate hospital pharmacy program leading to a Master of Science degree in pharmacy. Co-sponsored by the Veterans Administration Hospital of Denver, the program is 22 months in duration and is designed so that the residency and academic training are taken concurrently. A position with a stipend of approximately $3,900 is available in June 1963. Interested candidates may write for further information to the Personnel Officer, Veterans Administration Hospital, 1055 Clermont Street, Denver 20, Colorado.
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In memory of Lucas Luis Velez, first dean of the University of Puerto Ri~o college of pharmacy, a new air-conditioned auditorium was dedicated at the college on January 22. An oil portrait of the dean was presented during the ceremonies by his daughter, Mrs. Fenimore E. Cooper, of New York. In accepting for the university, Chancellor Jaime Benitez said, "The university honored Dean Velez not only as a pharmacist but as a man of stature in history, economics, politics and public affairs." The dean had contributed to his town as municipal judge and had been a delegate to the Puerto Rican House of Representatives in addition to serving on the Board of Pharmacy helping to found the Colegio de Farmaceuticos. .
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Officers newly elected to head region II of APhA's student section are (left to right) Salvatore Sci alia, vice president, Marsha Bontamos, secretarytreasurer, and Fred Lascoff, President.
Students from colleges of pharmacy in six states migrated to host college, Columbia University, for the fourth annual region II meeting, February 8-9. Welcome by Columbia pharmacy dean, E.D. Leuallen, opened the general assembly at which APHA executive director, William S. Apple, gave the featured address. Stressing that "only through pharmacy education can we better pharmacy," Apple noted that there is increasing demand in American pharmacy today for educated new leadership. In probing the problems of the pharmacist and the profession, Apple concluded that "we can become as strong as medicine and dentistry." Following a recess for luncheon and a tour of Columbia's college of pharmacy, delegates and guests reconvened to hear Emil Greenberg, general counsel of the Pharmaceutical Society of the State of New York, speak on the importance of student participation on all levels of pharmacy. Speaker for the evening ban•
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Under the theme of "law and the pharmacist," delegates from the five midwestern states attended the February 14-16 meeting of the region IV APHA student chapters hosted by the local chapter of the University of Wisconsin. The program was directed by the region 'S secretary-treasurer, John F. Wing, a graduating senior at the University of Wisconsin, and was intended primarily as a means for members and officers in individual student chapters to discuss and resolve mutual problems. Supplementing the discussion sessions were a number of speakers and social events. First on the program was W. Allen Daniels, executive director of the Wisconsin Pharmaceutical Association,
quet was Robert E. Abrams, executive secretary of the American College of Apothecaries, who addressed the group on the future of pharmacy in relation to today's changing environment. On the agenda for the business sessions were ~Report by PreSIdent Jerry Yakatan on APhA annual meeting in Las Vegas ~Appointment of committee chairmen-John Ferinde, Rutgers University (constitution and bylaws); Herbert Katz, Columbia University (resolutions); Aaron Kadish, Maryland University(nominating) ~Selection of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science as host college for the 1964 annual region II meeting ~ Election of new regional officersFred Lascoff of Columbia University, president; Salvatore Scialla of Rutgers University, vice president, and Marsha Bontamose of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, secreta ry-trea surer
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who spoke on the role of associations in the future of the profession . In other sessions Professor Aaron J. Ihde of the U niversi ty of Wisconsin spoke on "consumer protection in the realm of foods and drugs" and Roger Cain, APHA membership director, explored "APHA and the law as it touches pharmacy." On the lighter side, the university chapters of Kappa Psi Fraternity and Kappa Epsilon Fraternity for Women co-sponsored an informal dinner and dance for the delegates while Rho Chi Honor Society in association with the University of Wisconsin Pharmaceutical Society sponsored a reception following Mr. Daniels' address. A pantomime by one of the students also added to the gaiety.
Addressing the opening session of the recent APhA region IV stUdent chapters at Madison, Wisconsin is John F. Wing, newly elected secretary-treasurer. With him at the head table are (left to right) Thomas Smith of the University of Wisconsin, regent; Charles Holcombe of Ohio Northern University, vicepresident; Larry Edwards of the University of Wisconsin, Duane Tackitt of the University of illinois, president John Wing and Suzanne Frank of the University of Wisconsin.
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