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Statewide CALIFORNIA-San Diego County Pharmaceutical Assn. listened to Paul Brenner, MD, Planned Parenthood Inc. medical director, discuss_ past, present and future of therapeutic abortions Oct. 22 . . . . Contra Costa Pharmaceutical Assri. members met Oct. _28 .to discuss comprehensive health planning for county. New offi.cers include Ralph · Reamy, president; Samuel Kidder, president-elect; Robert Webber, secretary; Stanley Todd, treasurer. . . . Peninsula Pharmaceutical SoCiety viewed video-tape, "An Orientation to Clinical Clerkship,"· documentary on University of Calif. clinical pharmacy program at Oct. 22. meeting . . . . University of Calif. school of pharmacy will sponsor symposium on generics and antisubstitution iegisl~tion · Jan. 28-29 at San Francisco campus. . . . Sausalito pharmacist a.nd APhA member Frederick S. Mayer rec~ived NA.RD-Lederle Award Oct. 19 for outstanding performance in interprofessional relations. COLORADO--:-Denver Area Drug Assn. met recet:Jtly to consider problems associated with shoplifting, watched a film on subject and talked with Policewoman WHma Ptacnik. ILLINOIS-Development of new student testing technique~. created by APhA members Henri Mariasse and R9bert · Mrtek, will be conducted by University of Ill. college of pharmacy under grant from U.S. Pharmaceutical Company. One of first projects of its kind, study is designed to develop new examination tools to measure amount of drug product information obtained from structured quality internship program. INDIANA-Duties, functions and enforcements of FDA were discussed by members of Butler University Student APhA Chapter Oct. 30 with FDA Inspector .Ray Stutzman.. Students learne<;J of opportunities · for pharmacists with FDA and of laws pertaining to pharmacy.. . . . MARY LAN D:_Baltimore Pharmaceutical Assn: Oct. 29 meeting featured p~mei discussion on socialized meqicine, sponsorea by Investigate Nation~! Compulsory Health Committee. · · . MONTANA_:_University of Morit. StudEmt APhA Chapter discussed fraternal organizations' activities with representatives of Rho Chi, Kappa Epsilon and Kappa Psi on Oct. 8. NEBRASKA-University of Neb. Student APhA Chapter met Oct. 23 with ~ex Higley, director of state bureau of examining 'boards; tQ consider current requirements for pharmacy inter[1ship a.nd possible changes. At Oct. 30 gathering, students discussed enterostomal therapy with ·hospital therc;~pist. NEW JERSEY-Morris County Pharmaceutical Society met Nov . .15 with Melvin Green, AmeriGan Council on Pharmaceutical . Education director of educat!on relations, to discuss the professional degree of doctor of pharmacy for all pharmacists and ways and means for making the degree retroactive. NEW YORK-New Yor~ City Society of Hospital Pharmacists rriembers learned techniques of setting Lip drug information center in typical hospital pharmacy from Jack Rosenberg, Valley Hospital pharmacy director, at Oct. 22 meeting. NORTH CARO~I NA-l)niversicy of N.C. school of pharmacy has begun publication of a newsletter called Sc~ipt to keep ~tude_nts, faculty and alumni abreast of school events. Distribution will be made to the 73 schools of pharmacy in U.S. OREGON-Lane County Pharmaceutical Assn. members considered pharmaceutical_ products used in ophthalmology in a
discussion with Frank M. Nagy, MD, Oct. 21. . PENNSYLVANIA-Temple University school of ph~rmacy will offer new two-credit, one-semester· graduate lecture course; "Surfactants-Physical Chemistry and Biochemical Applications," spring semester. Course, which may be taken for credit or audit, will be on Mondays and Wednesdays Jan. 11-May 5. To register, write to Dr. H. Schott, Associate Professor, School of Pt)armacy, Temple University, 3223 N. Broad St.,. Ph!ladelphia, PA 19140. SOUTH CAROLI NA-~niversity of S.C. Student APhA Chapter met with John Dennis, 14-year Columbia Police Department veteran, who discussed drug violation arrests and illegal traffic in narcotics Oct. 22 . TENNESSEE-APhA member Drew E. Haskins Jr. was recently appointed to state board of pharmacy by goyernor. VIRGINIA-A film on the diagnosis, symptoms, therapy and epidemiology of syphilis was shown to Student APhA·VPhA Chapter at Nov. 6 meeting. W. S. Swofford, Richmond Department of Health disease epidemiologist, discussed aspects of the disease and efforts to control it .... Mrs. Marie Suyes, pharmacist in fler father's, Tony Mehfoud, pharmacy in Sandston and whose brother is attending pharmacy school, was recently honored by being named official hostess of .National Tobacco Festival. WASHINGTON-Wash. State University Student APhA Chapter heard board of pharmacy Chairman Donald E. Kusler and members Claude A. Edgren and Sanford Thai, discuss pro-
University of Wisconsin school of pharmacy Citations were presented by pharmacy school Dean David Perlman (far left) to (left to right) Sidney Riegelman, University of California pharmacy professor; Casimir Zielinski, Wisconsin pharmacy school alumni chairman and Wilbur Bakke, recently retired Rennebohm Drug Stores board chairman. Madison campus Vice Chancellor Irving Shain congratulates the pharmacists. Vol. NSll, No. 1, January 1971
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posed internship requirments Oct. 27 .... New Puget Sound APhA Chapter officers include James M. McCoy, president; Douglas W. Beeman, vice president; John Oftebro, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Gary Cornell, recording secretary; Lawrence Lemchen, treasurer. WEST VIRGINIA-W.Va. Student University APhA Chapter learned about NARD functions and activities from Delbert Connor, assistant executive secretary, at Nov. 6 gathering. WISCONSIN-Wis. Pharmacy Internship Board is accepting applications for executive secretary position. Registered pharmacists with several years professional practice, preferably recently graduated, will be considered. Send inquiries and applications to Joseph R. Robinson, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706.
National Scene ASSOCIATIONS-Workshop on community action in drug abuse education was sponsored by National _Coordinating Council on Drug Abuse, Inc. in Chicago Oct. 26-28. First showing of new film, "It .Takes a Lot of Help," kicked off program .... In cooperation- with BNDD, Justice Department and FDA, NABP held fourth school for drug law officers at University of Utah college of pharmacy Dec. 6-10 with grant from National Pharmaceutical Council. . . . APhA member Herbert M. Gross has been elected to executive council of Health Industries Assn. and will also serve as treasurer. GOVERNMENT-APhA member John A. Biles, University of Southern Calif. school of pharmacy dean, . has been named toNIH National Advisory Council on Education for Health Professions. He will serve until Feb. 29, 1972, as only pharmacy dean in U.S. on 17-man council. INDUSTRY-CIBA Ltd. and J. R. Geigy S.A., as well as CIBA and Geigy corporations in the U.S., recently merged to form CIBA-Geigy, firm of 65,000 employees and sales of approxi· mately $1.5 billion. New corporate headquarters will be Geigy site in Ardsley, N.Y. _. .. Winthrop Labs was recently awarded Defense Department Zero Defects Achievement Award .... In other industry news, APhA members with new positions include Jerry T. Gaylord, ass9ciate general manager of Hoffmann-LaRoche clinical laboratory division and Otto N. Minerva, John G. Chesney Jr. and Steven J. Kabakoff, Eli Lilly sales representatives.
International INTERNATIONAL-The Royal Society of Health was founded in Great Britain in 1876 to promote the health of people throughout the world. The eleven subject groups in· elude pharmacists, and the Society's total membership now exceeds 34,000 of which 10,000 are outside Gre'!t Britain. For information on membership, submitting papers to be read before the Royal Society's Health Congress in the spring or at the International Health Conference this fall, as well as registration at such meetings, write to P. Arthur Wells, The Royal Society of Health, 90 Buckingham Palace Road, Lon· don, S.W. 1, England.
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Frederic Fenger, pioneer in endocrinology and well known for his studies of the thyroid gland, died OCtober 13. A native of Denmark, he earned his PhD in biochemistry froni the University of Copenhagen. He was associated with Armour Pharmaceutical Laboratories for 44 years and developed its research laboratory of organotherapeutics. He was a member of APhA . and an honorary member of the American Medical Association.
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-reports on nine drug abuse prevention projects supported by HEW's Youth Developm~nt and Delinquency Prevention Administration of Social and Rehabilitation Service. In addition to reviewing programs, authors Richard Brotman and Frederick Suffet offer recommendations for future drug abuse prevention · projects based on their study of the nine programs.
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University of Illinois college of pharmacy Dean August P. Lemberger (right) congratulates Cynthia Almy and Lawrence Thompson on completion of a three-month pilot project in clinical pharmacy during which research was undertaken to determine the value of practical education in the clinical environment.
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