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pharmacy on parade spoke through films, disPharmacy play booths and demonstrations during recent health and science fairs and open houses. This spring in Hialeah and North Miami Beach, Florida, the Southeast Florida Pharmaceutical Association set up booths at health fairs with the help of secretary-manager Ben Saks, coordinator of healthorama and health fair pharmacy exhibits. A speech on medicare ,a nd free health tests were also part of the North M,i ami 'B each health fair. ·P eople came away with pamphlets and brochures on quality drugs, tips on poison-proofing the home and antidote charts. In Nebraska, exhibits at a health fair explained the professions of pharmacy, dentistry, medicine, nursing and veterinary medicine. Celebrating Nebraska's ·c entennial observance, the health fair was in recognition of the progress achieved across the century. The professions built their displays to embrace the contrast between "yesterday" and "tomorrow." ,P harmacy's exhibit contained an apothecary , a viewing screen wh~re a slide presentation ran continuously with sound and a display showing textbooks used in pharmacy school. In the background was an ·a rea devoted to the theme «From Test Tubes to Tablets" in which the development of penicillin was unfolded. , The Parke-Davis exhibit oil history of pharm'a cy in paintings was accompanied by booklets concerning the paintings for the artviewers. Faculty and students from the universities of Nebraska and Creighton helped to construct and man the exhibits as did members of the Omaha and Nebraska Pharmaceutical

associations and the Lancaster .P harmaceutioal Ladies Auxiliary. In the Prince George's County science fair held at the University of Maryland, women pharmacy students demonstrated prescription and cosmetic compounding. Displays depicting the art and science of pharmacy were viewed by visitors to the fair on April 15 and 16. The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and IScience and the University of Illinois Medical Center welcomed visitors to open houses where they saw how pharmaceuticals are manufactured, how students learn pharmaceutical technics and how prescription drugs are compounded. Career days in Texas, Iowa and Wisconsin gave high school students opportunities to see what qualifications, curriculum and requirements they needed to enter ,t he profession of pharmacy. Working with the Universityof Iowa was the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association, with the University of Wisconsin, the Pharmacists Society of Milwaukee, and with the University of Texas, the Longhorn Pharmaceutical Association. Future pharmacists banquet days for Tennessee pharmacists took place on April 25 and 26 in Nashville and Johnsan City through the sponsorship of local and state pharmacy organizations. High school students, counselors and principals attended with pharmacists. Seldon D. Feurt, dean of the college of pharmacy at the University of Tennessee, spoke at both banquets, inviting the students to consider pharmacy as their vocation and outlining the profession's advantages and opportunities.

For public education-(clockwise from top left) Maryland University pharmacy students (left to right) Julie Limric, Elizabeth Krawiecki and Joann Neuman demonstrate prescription and cosmetic compounding; Ben Saks (left), Florida Pharmaceutical Association, explains program to Congressman Claude Pepper and city councilman James E. Reardon at health day in North Miami Beach; old apothecary is part of Nebraska health fair; Dean Seldon D. Feurt, University of Tennessee college of pharmacy, and tv personality 110 Salyer discuss the future pharmacists banquet; students are given a look at laboratory facilities at PCPS open house (left). VoL N~7, No. 8, August 1967

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