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Stimulus for Science Careers
stimulus for science careers
Grover C. Bowles (center), APhA president, at a meeting of the Uni· versity of Mississippi APhA chapter, discussed the advantages APhA membership offers pharmacists. With Bowles were Cullum Heard (left) and Bill Harlan, national vice chairman of APhA's student section. Chapter officers were elected at the meeting-Bill Harlan, president; Ronald Edwards, vice president; Sharon Jones, secretary, and Betty Hellums, treasurer.
student chapters
official word -Election winners at student chapter polls- Creighton U (Nebr.)-John Potter, pres. ; Richard Bailey, v.p.; Susan Skowlund, secy., and Kenneth Yoshizu, treas.; U of 111.Donald A. Buckert, pres. ; Gerald Gebhart, V.p.; Ronald Henning, secy., and Bruce Carlstedt, treas.; Temple U (Pa.)-Allan Kaplan, pres.; Harvey Rapport, V.p.; Stanley Zasla vsky, recording secy. ; Mary C. Bilotta, corresponding secy., and Harry Collins, treas.
membership awards -Thanks to Patrick J. Connor, Edmund Czerwinski and Edward Sohler, alumni of Creighton U (Nebr.), 7 student chapter members received
membership awards in APHA. One-year memberships went to 3 underclassmen in recognition of scholastic achievements and 4 seniors received $15 awards toward membership in APHA under the 4-year pledge program. To F . Michael Kleine went the APHA certificate of award for efforts promoting APHA membership. Awards were presented at annual pharmacy day award banquet.
associations
reaching the public -Popular, nontechnical pharmacy series "The Apothecary" is now on Wash. television stations KCTS, KVYE and KWSR. This joint showing results from combined efforts of Wash. State PhA, U of Wash. and Wash. State U. The 28 half-hour shows feature New officers for the Capital Area Pharma· ceutical Association in Texas were recently in· stalled by Roy Wiese, Jr. (left), president of the Texas board of pharmacy. Association president, William I. Dis· mukes (right), took his oath before more than 100 pharmacists. Other ofticers inducted were R.H. Yandell, vice presi. dent, Edith Thompson, secretary, and Paul Tover, treasurer.
568
Journal of the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
Those students in Indiana who aspire to scientific careers are re(":eiving a boost toward that goal from a newly formed state group-the Indiana Science Education Fund. This group is stimulating science. education at all school levels by supporting science fairs. fund officers plan to raise enough money to send two winners apg two teachers ftom. each of the state's 12 rcgipnal s~i~ce fairs to the IntemationalScience Fair each year. Eventually the fund may expand its activities supporting science careers to the awarding of scholarships. Secretary-treasurer for the. new group is Karl L . Kaufman, dean of the Butler University school of pharmacy. Kaufman, who servedin 1960 as general chairman for the .N ationalScience Fair~ rnternatiortal, has just been appointed to the advisory council of the International Science Fair. Leading the Indiana group as chairman. is John A. Scott, publisher of the Lafayette Journal and Courier. Indiana Governor Roger D. Branigin is on the fund's board of directors as are Frank Welcher, president of the Indiana Academy of Science; L. A. Willig, vice president of the Tri-State. College, and Jack Schrey, vice president of the Magnavox. Corporation. Edward S. Brady, U of Southern Calif. professor who authored and directed the series .... -Members of North City PhA (Pa.) are cooperating with Philadelphia department of heal th in program to educate teenagers to dangers of venereal disease. Pamphlets are being distributed through pharmacy health education centers .... -Under new leadership of APHA member Howard Schwartz, former supreme councilor of Rho Pi Phi, the fraternity's foundation has launched program to tell public of pharmacy's professional community role.
at the national level - Pharmacologists from industry and government agencies together with research staffers from medical and pharmacy schools attended American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics meeting in Philadelphia August 16-20. Meeting was in collaboration with Society of Toxicology and sponsored by pharmacology department of U of Pa. school of medicine. Topics included cancer chemotherapy; problems of narcotic addiction; tranquilizer, antidepressant and hallucinogenic drugs; drug influence on cardiovascular and respiratory systems, and re-
lationship between stress and action of drugs .... -Nov. 1517 are dates set for annual meeting of Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S. in Washington, D.C. Keynote speaker is Jack Masur, PHS assistant surgeon general and director of the NIH clinical center.... ilEdward G. Feldmann, director of APHA's scientific division, is on annual program of Parenteral Drug Association, Oct. 20-22 in New York City. His topic is "National Formulary Drugs and Medicare."
services and scholarships -Among services provided members by county pharmaceutical associations is this one of Passaic County PhA (N.J. )-pharmacists are notified of stolen ij orders, told which products are being asked for and given procedure to follow if they receive such an order .... -Joining forces to raise money for women's auxiliary scholarship fund were Long Beach PhA (Calif.) and its auxiliary. Dinner hilited fund-raising activities.
officers at all levels -Appointed secy.-manager of W. Va. State PhA was Willard Phillips, Jr., who also is new editor of The TVest Virginia Pharmacist. New mailing address for association is P.O.
Grover C. Bowles (center), APhA president, at a meeting of the Uni· versity of Mississippi APhA chapter, discussed the advantages APhA membership offers pharmacists. With Bowles were Cullum Heard (left) and Bill Harlan, national vice chairman of APhA's student section. Chapter officers were elected at the meeting-Bill Harlan, president; Ronald Edwards, vice president; Sharon Jones, secretary, and Betty Hellums, treasurer.
student chapters
official word -Election winners at student chapter polls- Creighton U (Nebr.)-John Potter, pres. ; Richard Bailey, v.p.; Susan Skowlund, secy., and Kenneth Yoshizu, treas.; U of 111.Donald A. Buckert, pres. ; Gerald Gebhart, V.p.; Ronald Henning, secy., and Bruce Carlstedt, treas.; Temple U (Pa.)-Allan Kaplan, pres.; Harvey Rapport, V.p.; Stanley Zasla vsky, recording secy. ; Mary C. Bilotta, corresponding secy., and Harry Collins, treas.
membership awards -Thanks to Patrick J. Connor, Edmund Czerwinski and Edward Sohler, alumni of Creighton U (Nebr.), 7 student chapter members received
membership awards in APHA. One-year memberships went to 3 underclassmen in recognition of scholastic achievements and 4 seniors received $15 awards toward membership in APHA under the 4-year pledge program. To F . Michael Kleine went the APHA certificate of award for efforts promoting APHA membership. Awards were presented at annual pharmacy day award banquet.
associations
reaching the public -Popular, nontechnical pharmacy series "The Apothecary" is now on Wash. television stations KCTS, KVYE and KWSR. This joint showing results from combined efforts of Wash. State PhA, U of Wash. and Wash. State U. The 28 half-hour shows feature New officers for the Capital Area Pharma· ceutical Association in Texas were recently in· stalled by Roy Wiese, Jr. (left), president of the Texas board of pharmacy. Association president, William I. Dis· mukes (right), took his oath before more than 100 pharmacists. Other ofticers inducted were R.H. Yandell, vice presi. dent, Edith Thompson, secretary, and Paul Tover, treasurer.
568
Journal of the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
Those students in Indiana who aspire to scientific careers are re(":eiving a boost toward that goal from a newly formed state group-the Indiana Science Education Fund. This group is stimulating science. education at all school levels by supporting science fairs. fund officers plan to raise enough money to send two winners apg two teachers ftom. each of the state's 12 rcgipnal s~i~ce fairs to the IntemationalScience Fair each year. Eventually the fund may expand its activities supporting science careers to the awarding of scholarships. Secretary-treasurer for the. new group is Karl L . Kaufman, dean of the Butler University school of pharmacy. Kaufman, who servedin 1960 as general chairman for the .N ationalScience Fair~ rnternatiortal, has just been appointed to the advisory council of the International Science Fair. Leading the Indiana group as chairman. is John A. Scott, publisher of the Lafayette Journal and Courier. Indiana Governor Roger D. Branigin is on the fund's board of directors as are Frank Welcher, president of the Indiana Academy of Science; L. A. Willig, vice president of the Tri-State. College, and Jack Schrey, vice president of the Magnavox. Corporation. Edward S. Brady, U of Southern Calif. professor who authored and directed the series .... -Members of North City PhA (Pa.) are cooperating with Philadelphia department of heal th in program to educate teenagers to dangers of venereal disease. Pamphlets are being distributed through pharmacy health education centers .... -Under new leadership of APHA member Howard Schwartz, former supreme councilor of Rho Pi Phi, the fraternity's foundation has launched program to tell public of pharmacy's professional community role.
at the national level - Pharmacologists from industry and government agencies together with research staffers from medical and pharmacy schools attended American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics meeting in Philadelphia August 16-20. Meeting was in collaboration with Society of Toxicology and sponsored by pharmacology department of U of Pa. school of medicine. Topics included cancer chemotherapy; problems of narcotic addiction; tranquilizer, antidepressant and hallucinogenic drugs; drug influence on cardiovascular and respiratory systems, and re-
lationship between stress and action of drugs .... -Nov. 1517 are dates set for annual meeting of Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S. in Washington, D.C. Keynote speaker is Jack Masur, PHS assistant surgeon general and director of the NIH clinical center.... ilEdward G. Feldmann, director of APHA's scientific division, is on annual program of Parenteral Drug Association, Oct. 20-22 in New York City. His topic is "National Formulary Drugs and Medicare."
services and scholarships -Among services provided members by county pharmaceutical associations is this one of Passaic County PhA (N.J. )-pharmacists are notified of stolen ij orders, told which products are being asked for and given procedure to follow if they receive such an order .... -Joining forces to raise money for women's auxiliary scholarship fund were Long Beach PhA (Calif.) and its auxiliary. Dinner hilited fund-raising activities.
officers at all levels -Appointed secy.-manager of W. Va. State PhA was Willard Phillips, Jr., who also is new editor of The TVest Virginia Pharmacist. New mailing address for association is P.O.