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150
This is a historic time
AT THE COLLEGE AS WE CELEBRATE
OUR SESQUICENTENNIAL THIS NOVEMBER.
JOHN A. PIEPER, PRESIDENT
FOR 150 YEARS,
we have been educating
future pharmacy innovators
and practitioners who are
impacting health care locally,
nationally, and globally.
We owe our success to the
leaders and innovators
who have helped shape the
College over the years.
In this issue of Script, you will learn more
about the people who helped the College get
its start and continue to help us evolve today.
During this transformational time at the
College, we continue to build on our historic
strengths as we prepare for an exciting future.
We are continuing the work of our founders
as we take bold steps to become globally
prominent in pharmacy and health care
education, interprofessional patient-centered
care, and collaborative research.
This fall, we implemented a new Doctor of
Pharmacy curriculum with an integrated
bachelor’s degree. We have also formed a
collaborative program with the University of
Missouri-St. Louis College of Business Administration to allow our student pharmacists the
ability to work toward a Master of Business
Administration degree or a Graduate Certificate
in Business Administration at UMSL while
still enrolled at the College. We are looking to
develop similar collaborative programs with
other institutions in relevant areas.
Utilizing our location in one of the world’s
finest biomedical research centers, the College
is building partnerships with premier
health care and educational institutions to
establish cutting-edge research and patientcare initiatives. We are also finalizing discussions
with health systems and community pharmacists
to significantly expand our impact on transitions
of care and link hospital and community
pharmacists. The College has co-founded the
Center for Interprofessional Education with
Goldfarb School of Nursing and Washington
University School of Medicine to jointly
educate students in the health professions
to provide evidence-based, patient-centered
interprofessional care.
To better accomplish our bold vision, the
College has also implemented a new organizational structure that includes two schools:
the School of Pharmacy and the School of
Arts and Sciences. We have new leadership
at the College, including a new dean for the
School of Pharmacy: Dr. Bruce Canaday, a
national leader in pharmacy.
Lastly, we have begun the largest construction
project in our history. We are expecting
completion of our 213,000-square-foot,
state-of-the-art academic and research building
and library in May 2015. We are also anxious
to begin a second phase of construction, which
will include a second residence hall, a new dining
facility, a recreation center, a student center,
and a gymnasium. This construction will help
transform the College into a global leader in
health care and pharmacy education.
Historic changes are happening at the College
as we usher in this new era.
Our enhanced curriculum and collaborative
degree programs, new research programs,
new international and local community
initiatives, new organizational structure, and
new construction project are allowing us to
build on our past as we strive to meet our vision.
I want to thank all of you for the many ways
you support the College. Our continued success
could not be possible without you, and I look
forward to the next chapter in our rich history!
PHOTO BY JENNIFER SILVERBERG
ST. LOUIS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
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F E ATU R E S
Editor
Sheila Haar Siegel
Designers
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Contributing Writers
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Proofreader
Nancy Busch
Class Notes
Kristine Bryant
Chairman, Board of Trustees
Jane E. Arnold
President
John A. Pieper, Pharm.D.
The Making of STLCOP
Places and Spaces
BY SHEILA HAAR SIEGEL
BY BRAD BROWN
The apothecary from Kentucky who passed
through St. Louis on his way to the Gold Rush
who opened a drugstore who eventually
founded St. Louis Collge of Pharmacy.
People Who Changed
the Course of STLCOP
BY BLAIRE LEIBLE GARWITZ
Brett T. Schott
Beth Keserauskis
President, Alumni Association
Robert Salter ’70
Director, Alumni Relations
Stephanie Hoffmann
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The College owes its success to the vision,
hard work, and sheer dedication of many
people. Here are a few of the pioneers who
are part of its rich history.
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150 Things We
Love About STLCOP
STLCOP has moved seven times since 1864.
Yet its roots have never strayed from being
at the center of health care, education, and
its St. Louis home.
Campus Traditions
Then and Now
12
A dusty dive into the archives of alumni
hangouts, happenings, and perhaps some
memories you’d forgotten (or wished you had).
BY STEPHANIE HOFFMANN
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Registration Incarnations
The good, great, and distinctly STLCOP
things that make us who we are, tell us
where we have been, and remind us of the
possibilities for what lies ahead.
The first courses at STLCOP have evolved
into something far beyond early students’
expectations. Yet they remain the foundation
of courses still in existence today.
BY SHEILA HAAR SIEGEL
BY BRAD BROWN
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Founding Families
For the History Books
BY STACY AUSTERMAN
BY SHEILA HAAR SIEGEL
Three families, united by their passion of
independent pharmacy and St. Louis College
of Pharmacy, explain why generations of
families plant roots at STLCOP.
CLASS NOTES
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For 150 years, the College has been gathering, talking, and aspriring to be a leader in
pharmacy education. And we can prove it.
Here is how we have shared the journey.
The Making of STLCOP
By Sheila Haar Siegel
The apothecary from Kentucky who passed through
St. Louis on his way to the California Gold Rush
who opened a drugstore in St. Louis who eventually
founded St. Louis College of Pharmacy.
1809
1823
The city of St. Louis is
founded by Chouteau
and Laclede.
The first pharmacy
in St. Louis opens.
St. Louis becomes
a city and elects
William Carr
Lane, a physician,
as mayor.
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1852
The American
Pharmaceutical
Association
(now American
Pharmacists
Association)
is founded in
Philadelphia.
1854
The St. Louis
Pharmaceutical
Association
is established
on May 25.
1860
A committee of
apothecaries and
physicians is appointed
by the St. Louis
Pharmaceutical
Association to
consider establishing
a college of pharmacy
in St. Louis.
1861
The Civil War
begins in Fort
Sumter, South
Carolina, on
April 12.
AŽer completing his apprenticeship,
instead of heading back to his hometown of Shipinsport, Kentucky, Massot
followed the Gold Rush to California
(luckily, for the College, he didn’t strike
it rich). He must have liked what he
saw when he passed through St. Louis
because, in 1851, he returned.
Library of Congress
As a 13-year-old boy growing up in
Galena, Illinois, in 1836, Eugene Massot
worked as “an apprentice” in the local
pharmacy. At the same time, the first
pharmaceutical courses were being
taught by, and for, physicians at Saint
Louis University Medical School. In
those days, apothecaries didn’t aend
classes, and there were no formal degrees
in pharmacy in the Midwest. Apprentices, like Massot, learned their craŽ on
their own from apothecaries, during a
time when anyone with a glimmer of
aspiration could open a drugstore and
sell home remedies and medicines.
At first, apprentices would start out
running errands, stocking shelves,
When truth is stranger than fiction, as it is in this tale, the
result is the idea of a lile college that wouldn’t give up. Along
the way, it could have easily fallen by the wayside—it almost
did a couple of times. But, as its founders imagined, anything
was possible. Even a great American college of pharmacy.
1764
and scrubbing floors until they learned
how to compound medicine and tend to
the counter—three years for most young
men. Most apprentices also learned
basic reading, writing, and arithmetic at
night aŽer the store closed.
Massot opened his own drugstore
in the city in 1852, the same year the
American Pharmaceutical Association
(APhA) was formed. He became closely
involved with the national association
and helped breathe new life into the
St. Louis Pharmaceutical Association
three years aŽer its founding in 1857.
Local apothecaries had begun to meet
NOVEMBER 11
1865
ST. LOUIS COLLEGE
OF PHARMACY IS
ESTABLISHED
The first College
botany course is
taught at Shaw’s
Garden (now the
Missouri Botanical
Garden).
1864
in the back rooms of owners’ drugstores
to learn about botany, chemistry, and
other pharmaceutical topics from physicians and each other. Massot, who was
self-taught, wanted other apothecaries
to have the education he never had. In
1860, a commiee of apothecaries and
physicians was appointed by the St.
Louis Pharmaceutical Association to
consider opening a college of pharmacy.
Massot topped the list but aŽer the
Civil War began, everything else was
put on hold.
Finally, toward the end of the war, the
group met again. On November 11, 1864, at
7:30 p.m., St. Louis College of Pharmacy
was founded in the hall of the St. Louis
Medical College. Massot, along with
four other medical colleagues, went
about draŽing a charter, constitution,
and bylaws. He was the only apothecary
on the commiee. Four years later,
he was in the College’s first graduating
class of 17 men.
AŽer years of working to establish the
College, Massot served as the first chairman of the Board of Trustees in 1864
and again aŽer he graduated. But it took
the work of Massot once more to turn a
short-lived dream into full-fledged reality.
In 1869, just one year aŽer earning his
degree, Massot’s plans for St. Louis College
of Pharmacy ran up against sparse
student enrollment. The College was
forced to suspend instruction during
1869-1870. But Massot persuaded the
APhA to hold its annual convention in
St. Louis in 1871 and garnered enough
interest and support to boost enrollment.
In 1871, the College resumed classes.
And so began the oldest college of
pharmacy west of the Mississippi River.
Massot died shortly thereaŽer, on
Valentine’s Day, in 1871, at 48. He didn’t get
to see the College come back into session.
Yet it was this humble, single-minded man
who set the course for St. Louis College
of Pharmacy’s 150-year history.
1865
1865
1866
1867
St. Louis College of
Pharmacy becomes the
first chartered college
of pharmacy west of
the Mississippi River.
The Civil War
ends in April.
In October, the first three
College faculty members—
Arthur Wagemier, Jeremiah
Smith Bois Alleyne, and
James O’Gallagher—begin
teaching chemistry, materia
medica, and pharmacy
in a room of the St.
Louis Medical College.
The College outgrows
its first location
and begins renting
lecture rooms at
the Tilford Building,
located on 4th Street
(across from the
Old Courthouse in
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downtown St. Louis).
BY BRAD BROWN
SPACES
{1864-67}
FOR THE LAST 87 YEARS,
7th and Clark
STLCOP Archives
St. Louis College of Pharmacy has
called the corner of Euclid Avenue
and Parkview Place home. Since then,
the surrounding area has become
one of the world’s premier patientcare and research centers. That same
spirit of interprofessional education
and collaboration was evident at
the College’s first home, the St. Louis
Medical College. In the last 150 years,
the College has had six other addresses.
Many of those locations, like today’s
home, are intertwined with iconic,
internationally recognized St. Louis
landmarks. Here are the places and
spaces of St. Louis College of Pharmacy.
The first instruction
at St. Louis College
of Pharmacy was
held in a room on
the fourth floor of
the St. Louis Medical
College on the northeast corner of 7th and Clark in downtown St. Louis.
The medical college had been established in 1835 by Saint Louis University
but became independent in 1855. When St. Louis College of Pharmacy
was formed, the building was commonly referred to as “Pope’s College,” a
reference to Dean Charles Alexander Pope, who founded St. Louis Medical
College. In 1891, St. Louis Medical College merged with the Missouri
Medical College to form Washington University School of Medicine.
{1867-71}
1869
1871
1871
The first class of
17 men graduate
from the College.
Instruction at
the College is
suspended due
to low enrollment.
STLCOP
resumes
instruction.
The College
moves to its
third location:
the Pullis
Building at
208 N. 6th
Street.
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1873
The College
moves to its
fourth location
at the southeast
corner of
Broadway
and Olive.
1875
The St. Louis
College of Pharmacy
Alumni Association
is founded.
Broadway and Olive
With a growing enrollment, the College
expanded into two rooms at the Insurance
Exchange Building on the southeast corner of
Broadway and Olive in downtown St. Louis in
1873. Rent on the fourth floor was $300 a year.
The College shared the floor with real estate
agents, builders, artists, and an entomologist.
The Insurance Exchange’s most famous resident
was architect George Barneœ. At the time, he had
just completed work on buildings and structures
in Tower Grove Park. His best-known works
include the Old Courthouse and structures
in the Missouri Botanical Garden, where the
College maintained a medicinal plant garden
at the time (and for many years later). Barneœ
also designed the Missouri Governor’s Mansion
in Jefferson City, Missouri. The Insurance
Exchange site is now the St. Louis Place Building.
Missouri History Museum, St. Louis
1879
1879
1881
The College’s first
pharmaceutical
lab is built.
The Missouri
Pharmaceutical
Association is
established.
The Missouri Board
of Pharmacy is
established.
Photo Credit
1868
The need for more space once again found the
College on the move in 1871. The chosen location
was two rooms on the third floor at 208 N. 6th
Street in downtown St. Louis. The building was
known as the main sales room and warehouse for
Pullis Brothers, the oldest ironworks company
in the city. Rooms 11 and 12 in the building were
transformed into the College’s lecture hall and
meeting room, which were rented for $20 a month.
Students and professors could easily arrive by
street cars. The only remnants of this building
can be found in the surviving Pullis Brothers
cast iron storefronts across the Midwest.
{1873-84}
18 N. 4th St.
As excavation began for the footing of the Eads Bridge across the Mississippi River, the
growing College’s first move was to the center of St. Louis. Classes for the 1867 session
were held at 18 N. 4th Street, right across the street from the Old Courthouse. The
building was owned by William Tilford, a druggist who was more widely known
as a photographer and a retailer of photography equipment. The College also
conducted some of its classes a few blocks south at the O’Fallon Dispensary at
615 Clark Avenue. The spot where the Tilford Building once stood is now green space
connecting the Old Courthouse to the Gateway Arch. The site of the O’Fallon Dispensary
was cleared in the mid-1960s to make way for Busch Memorial Stadium. It is now
Ballpark Village, an entertainment venue across the street from Busch Stadium.
209 N. 6th St.
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
PLACES
D
N
A
{1871-73}
1881
1884
The College moves
to its fifth location:
412 S. 6th Street.
Esther Wightman is
the first woman to
attend the College.
History of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, John P. Winkelmann
1892
1892
1904
The College moves
The World’s
to its sixth location:
Fair is held
its own building at
in St. Louis.
2108-2010 Lucas
Street. Receipts for the
year were $39,936.80.
Augusta Bock is the
Disbursements were
first female graduate
$36,942.15.
of STLCOP.
1904
Henry Whelpley
becomes dean.
{1884-92}
412 S. 6th St.
{1892-1927}
The College
begins full-time
instruction
during the day.
4588 Parkview Place
STLCOP Archives
A golden spade placed in the dirt on Feb.
15, 1927, by College President E.H. Wolff
(chairman of the Board of Trustees who,
as College protocol dictated at the time,
served as its president) marked the next
major step in the College’s growth. In
just a few months, the empty lot at the
corner of Euclid Avenue and Parkview
Place would turn into the College’s
new home, renamed Jones Hall in 2003.
Shortly a¦er the 1927 ceremony, a story
in the College’s quarterly Bulletin stated the building “is planned to make the College of Pharmacy the center of pharmacy in this
city and vicinity.” Barnes Hospital was already in the neighborhood, having opened its doors several decades earlier. Also in 1927,
Jewish Hospital accepted its first patients in its new location several blocks from the College.
The College purchased the space for $24,000 and then commenced on a $300,000 fundraising drive, which included $15,000 in
student contributions. Construction moved quickly, and the building was completed in time for fall classes.
It would be another 60 years before the next major addition was added to the main academic building. In the spring of 1987,
the O.J. Cloughly Alumni Library opened a new addition to the south side of the building. The library was very popular with
students. Within six months, there was a 100 percent increase in average nightly aœendance. A library newsleœer from that time
noted the main complaints were over the temperature in the new addition. Students reported being both too hot and too cold.
Jones Hall, as it stands now, was formed in 2003. A $42 million construction project included a three-story addition above the
library and the complete remodeling of the existing building. Work began at 3 a.m. so as not to disturb the first classes at 8 a.m.
The remodel came with plenty of surprises according to project manager Chris Gocal.
“You run into new challenges every day,” he told Script in 2003. “A column that’s 4 inches off, duct work that isn’t on the blueprints…
all the while you’re working in an occupied building with faculty and students. These challenges only make the job more interesting.”
The 2003 remodeling also saw Parkview Place converted into a pedestrian path and the addition of the eight-floor Residence Hall.
Lucas Place
Quarterly Bulletin, June 1909
The College’s sixth home on Lucas Place (now Locust Street) near 21st Street was the first
building constructed exclusively for the College. Classes began there in 1892. The College
building was three stories tall, one for each of the courses: materia medica (therapeutics),
pharmacy, and chemistry. The basement housed a large meeting room, men’s locker room,
and a museum. On the first floor, the board room was repurposed as a ladies’ room (a special
lounge and study area for female students) when school was in session. That level also
boasted a 250-seat lecture hall, microscope laboratory, and several offices. The pharmaceutical
laboratory was on the second floor along with another large lecture hall. The top floor
contained a chemical laboratory, storage area, and lecture hall. All of the rooms surrounded a
large atrium, which, according to promotional material of the time, “admits light and air [and]
is an important feature of the building.” Other features included electric lighting, steam heat,
and a filtered water system for use in the laboratory.
The College paid $8,750 for the lot. The building was paid for through $15,000 in donations
and a $25,000 loan from Franklin Bank of St. Louis. The building was demolished in 1944, and
the area is now a parking lot for the Schlafly Tap Room.
1904
{1927-Today}
1906
1906
1906
1908
1908
STLCOP establishes
merit scholarships
for students that
are sponsored
by Mallinckrodt,
Meyer Brothers,
and J.S. Merrell.
The College helps
establish a St.
Louis chapter
of the American
Pharmaceutical
Association.
The Federal Pure
Food and Drug
Act requires drug
manufacturers
to list product
ingredients on
labels.
The College offers
an optional four-year
course of study leading
to a pharmaceutical
chemist degree (Ph.C.).
The College offers
a commercial
pharmacy course,
the first of its kind.
To see internal spaces, visit stlcop.edu/150.
1917
Photo Credit
History of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, John P. Winkelmann
In 1884, the College moved into its own building at 412 S. 6th Street. The building was
owned by Board of Trustees Vice President Charles Gietner, who charged $85 a month
in rent. This was the College’s first location outside of the riverfront business district.
The building was next to Mesker Brothers Iron Works, another of the well-known
businesses that installed cast iron storefronts across the country. A rooming house
across the street from the College might have been home for several students.
The new building was touted in the College’s Bulletin as one of the most complete
and convenient of its kind in the country and the first dedicated to pharmaceutical
education in Missouri. Each of the three floors contained large, inclined lecture rooms
allowing students in the back row an unobstructed view of the professor and his
demonstrations. These were also the first lecture halls in the College’s history where
students could sit in chairs instead of on benches. The first floor also had an area for
offices, a reading room, and a private laboratory for the professor of pharmacy. The
pharmacy and microscope laboratories were on the second floor, and the chemical
laboratory on the third. Electronic bells, another new feature of the building, rang to
signal the end of class periods.
A¦er the College moved out, the building was later known as the Hoe§en Laboratory
Co. It survived until 1964, when it was razed to make way for Busch Memorial Stadium.
The United States
enters World War I.
1926
1927
1927
1929
The Board of
Trustees purchases
property on the
southeast corner of
Euclid and Parkview
Place for $24,000
in, what was then,
an emerging medical
center in St. Louis.
STLCOP moves to its
seventh and current location
at Parkview Place and Euclid
Ave. A complete model
pharmacy is built on the first
floor, so students can learn
how to operate a drug store
as part of the commercial
pharmacy course.
The St. Louis
College of
Pharmacy
Medicinal
Plant Garden
is established
at the Missouri
Botanical
Garden.
The College’s
first fraternity,
Chi Iota Phi, is
formed. Student
organizations—
the Microns
and the Garden
Club—are
formed.
1931
1932
Students acquire artifacts
and build exhibits for a
new pharmacy museum,
located on the fourth floor
and, later, in the library.
A four-year Bachelor
of Science degree
replaces the
three-year Ph.G.
Bacteriology,
English, German,
mathematics, and
physics are added
to the curriculum.
ENNO
PEOPLE WHO
CHANGED
THE COURSE
SANDER
Enno Sander, one of the key founders of St. Louis College
of Pharmacy, was born to an upper-class German family
in Trinum on February 27, 1822. He received a first-class
education at the University of Berlin, and later earned a
Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Halle.
In 1852, Sander arrived in St. Louis and became a high
school mathematics teacher. He also opened the first of
three drug stores he owned in 1853. During the Civil War,
he served with distinction as a quartermaster at the rank
of major for the Union. Sander became an advocate for
a pharmacy school in St. Louis and became one of the
school’s original founders. He was second vice president
of the College’s Board of Trustees from 1864-65 and then
CHARLES E.
president from 1865-66. He served two terms as a member
of the board in 1866-67 and from 1868-75. In 1868, the
College awarded him an honorary degree. He began his
tenure as professor of materia medica in 1871 and became
the College’s second dean in 1872.
Sander’s pivotal contribution to the College occurred in
1871 when he helped lead the effort to reorganize it. He also
helped regulate pharmacy licensure and draft legislation to
establish the Missouri State Board of Pharmacy.
In 1902, he was awarded the title of emeritus professor
of materia medica and botany, the first person to receive
that title from the College. Sander left $1,000 to the
College in his will.
CASPARI
The College may not have survived the Great Depression if
not for Charles Edward Caspari, dean of the College from
1926 to 1942. Caspari, known to his friends as “Cas,” was
the son of Charles Caspari Jr., who served as dean of the
Maryland College of Pharmacy and as executive secretary of
the American Pharmaceutical Association for 25 years. The
younger Caspari grew up in Baltimore and earned a doctorate
in chemistry from Johns Hopkins University and, after a
stint at Columbia University in New York, joined the St. Louis
College of Pharmacy faculty in 1903. He succeeded Henry
Milton Whelpley as dean in 1926.
During Caspari’s years as dean, the College built its
permanent home at Euclid Avenue and Parkview Place, and
the College’s curriculum expanded to better prepare students
for the growing complexities and advances in American
pharmacy.
The Great Depression took its toll on the College and,
by 1941, its debts had mounted to over $100,000. Caspari
worked tirelessly with the Board of Trustees and the
College’s donors to pay off the debt. Despite the long hours
he worked during this time, Caspari refused to accept any
of his salary as dean. During the most difficult financial
times, he often made substantial contributions from his
own personal savings to keep the College running.
Caspari became ill during the spring semester of 1942
and was confined to his home. Undaunted, he continued to
direct the affairs of the school and met with the faculty a
few days before his death on June 9, 1942.
OF STLCOP
HENRY M.
WHELPLEY
PHYLLIS (NEU)
SARICH
ST. LOUIS
COLLEGE OF
PHARMACY
OWES ITS SUCCESS OVER
Henry Milton Whelpley was born in Harmonia, Michigan,
on May 24, 1861. During the summers in high school, he
worked in drugstores, learning his life’s work.
On October 10, 1881, Whelpley began attending St. Louis
College of Pharmacy. He registered for all of the optional
classes in his junior year and still earned the highest grade
point average in the class.
After serving as a pharmacy manager in Mine LaMotte,
Missouri, Whelpley returned to St. Louis. He served as an
editor for the St. Louis Druggist, then for the National
Druggist and, ultimately, for the Meyer Brothers Druggist,
which he edited for 38 years. In 1884, Whelpley returned to
his alma mater as an instructor in microscopy. In 1887, he
was promoted to professor of microscopy and formed a local
society to advance its study.
1932
1937
The American
Council on
Pharmaceutical
Education (ACPE)
is founded.
Missouri licensure
law requires
pharmacists to
be graduates of a
school or college
of pharmacy.
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1938
The Federal
Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act
is enacted.
1940
Whelpley played a leadership role in shaping organizations such as the American Association of Colleges of
Pharmacy, the National Board of Pharmacy, and the
American Council on Pharmacy Education. He enjoyed
a lifelong involvement with the Missouri Pharmaceutical
Association (MPA) and was elected president of the
American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA) in 1901.
Whelpley became dean of the College in 1904 and
transformed it into a college of pharmacy for the 20th century.
He moved it from a part-time evening program into a full-time
day program. He continued to teach, first as professor of
pharmacognosy in 1918, then as professor of physiology,
pharmacognosy, and materia medica in 1922. On June 26,
1926, after attending an MPA meeting in Kansas City,
Whelpley died.
1941
St. Louis College
of Pharmacy is
accredited for the
first time by ACPE.
The United States
enters World War II.
1944
The College initiates
an accelerated
program. The traditional
four-year program
could be completed
in two years and eight
months with students
attending three 16-week
semesters per year.
Phyllis (Neu) Sarich ’46 worked for her father, Philip Neu
’16/’20, at his pharmacy in South St. Louis. She learned
the art of pharmacy at her father’s side, grinding powders,
rolling pills and mixing syrups, ointments, and tinctures
to serve her father’s patients. This early training led to a
pharmacy career that spanned more than 70 years, 52
of them spent at the College as its first full-time female
instructor.
A few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Sarich
enrolled in the College into a class of two women and 12
men. Due to World War II, her class consolidated with the
following class and they pursued the accelerated curriculum.
Sarich thrived in pharmacy school and became interested in
the study of bacteriology, taught by George Reddish. After
1945
The College is
renamed “St.
Louis College of
Pharmacy and
Allied Health
Sciences.”
graduation, she took a position at Lambert Pharmacal
Company working with her mentor, where they conducted
tests on a product that became known as “Listerine.” In
1946, she accepted a teaching position at the College as
instructor of bacteriology.
In addition to being the first and only full-time female
faculty member until the mid-1960s, Sarich was a founding
member of the sorority Lambda Kappa Sigma in 1951. In
1970, she was elected as the first female president of the
Alumni Association. In 2009, Sarich received the Loyalty
Award in gratitude for her exceptional commitment and
service to the College and the Alumni Association.
She also became the College’s first professor emerita.
She died in 2011.
1946
1947
The College
launches a new
course in animal
health pharmacy,
the first of its
kind in the nation.
The student body secures
100% membership in the
student chapter of the
American Pharmaceutical
Association at the College,
one of the first and few
schools to ever do so.
1951
Lambda Kappa
Sigma, the
College’s first
pharmaceutical
sorority, is
established.
1951
The O.J. Cloughly
Alumni Library
is dedicated.
THE PAST 150 YEARS TO
THE VISION, HARD WORK,
AND SHEER DEDICATION OF
MANY PEOPLE.
HERE, WE PROFILE PIONEERS
WHO CHANGED THE COURSE
OF STLCOP. BUT THE COLLEGE
OWES ITS RICH HISTORY TO
SO MANY MORE. READ ABOUT
MORE STLCOP LEADERS AT
WWW.STLCOP.EDU/150.
1952
1955
A Master of
Science degree
in hospital
pharmacy is
launched.
A Master of Science
degree in industrial
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pharmacy isC launched.
YEARS
9
CHARLES C.
RABE
During his 22-year tenure, Charles Rabe ’39 steered St. Louis
College of Pharmacy through a period of expansion and
redevelopment at a time of rapidly evolving changes in the
pharmacy profession.
Born in Steeleville, Illinois, Rabe earned a bachelor’s
degree from the College and then worked as a pharmaceutical
sales representative for Merck, Sharp & Dohme and later
at Warner-Lambert. He joined the faculty of the College in
1943. From 1948 to 1950, Rabe took a leave of absence to
earn a master’s degree from the Massachusetts College of
Pharmacy before returning to STLCOP. In 1954, he left the
College to serve as assistant to the secretary of the American
Pharmaceutical Association in Washington, D.C. He then
worked in various executive positions at a division of Pfizer
THOMAS F.
1960
1960
Richard Crumble,
Thomas L. Jones,
and Thomas
J. Williams III
are the first
African-American
graduates.
The Bachelor of
Science degree
in pharmacy
increases to five
years. Only 7%
of students are
female.
Intercollegiate
athletics launch
with bowling as the
first sport. Coach
Wiedenbacher
is the part-time
athletic director.
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before becoming the first full-time president of the College
in 1961.
Under his leadership, the College campus grew from one
building on less than an acre to four buildings on five acres.
There were revisions to the College curriculum, increased
enrollment, increased number of faculty and staff along with
improved benefits, and greater library holdings. The College
also received accreditation by the North Central Association,
and the endowment and reserve funds grew. A residence hall
was named for Rabe in the early 1980s. In 1989, Rabe received
the Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to the College
from the Alumni Association. He and his wife, Martha, were
inducted as lifetime members of the Mortar & Pestle Society
in 1996. Rabe died on March 30, 2000.
1961
Charles Rabe Jr.
becomes the College’s
first full-time president.
ROBINSON
Sumner M. Robinson arrived at St. Louis College of
Pharmacy in 1984 as its second president. An alumnus of
the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, he had served as
dean of his alma mater for the prior seven years.
Robinson imagined the College as a national leader in
pharmacy education. In 1986, the College introduced the
first six-year degree program in its history which culminated
in a Doctor of Pharmacy degree—something that most
pharmacy schools in the United States did not offer at the
time. In the fall of 1986, the College began offering two years
of evening graduate courses leading to an master’s degree in
pharmacy administration. Robinson also contracted with
Barnes Hospital School of Nursing for its students to complete
their general education requirements at the College.
PATTON
As St. Louis College of Pharmacy’s third president, Thomas F.
Patton brought both academic and corporate experience to the
position. Raised in Western Pennsylvania, Patton received his
bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, and master’s degree and Ph.D.
in pharmaceutics from the University of Wisconsin between
1966 and 1975. He spent the next 11 years at the University
of Kansas School of Pharmacy as a professor, researcher, and
associate vice chancellor. In 1986, Patton left academia for the
world of pharmaceuticals and served in a variety of directorial
and executive positions for Upjohn, Oread, and DuPont Merck.
In 1994, Patton accepted the position of president at the
College. When he arrived, he found a school that still had a
phone switchboard, a box for petty cash, and an old freight
elevator but did not yet have a human resources department or
adequate teaching or residential facilities. In his 16 years at the
1956
SUMNER M.
JOHN A.
College, Patton modernized the school and maintained a high
level of fiscal responsibility. But while some may remember
him as the quintessential no-nonsense administrator, he had
a charismatic side as well. Many remembered Patton’s strong
sense of humor. Without it, he would not have hosted the
school talent show or volunteered to sit in dunking booths
at Welcome Back Barbecues.
Perhaps one of his most lasting legacies, Patton helped
transform campus life. In 1994, the College was still largely a
commuter school. But Patton made it a point to develop a
more active, complete student life experience. Thanks to his
administration’s support, the school had more sports teams,
clubs, extracurricular events, residential space, and a more
active student government than ever by the time Patton’s
presidency ended in 2010.
1962
1963
The College’s name
is changed back to
“St. Louis College
of Pharmacy,”
and a new seal
is launched.
The “Dispensers,”
the College’s first
intercollegiate
basketball team,
go 7-7 in their
inaugural season.
1964
The College
celebrates its
centennial.
In 1986, a $7 million building expansion and renovation
project began, which included the construction of a new
student center, renovation of the main academic building,
a new and improved library, and a quadrangle and covered
walkway.
In 1990, the College developed its first strategic plan,
The College’s academic divisions were realigned into arts
and sciences, pharmaceutical and administrative sciences,
pharmacy practice, and library and instructional sciences.
In addition, the faculty began to change their teaching
methods from content-based learning (rote memorization)
to process-based learning (increased interaction between
teachers and students). Robinson left in 1994 to serve as
president of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.
PIEPER
In 2010, John A. Pieper became the fourth president of
St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Pieper brought a great deal
of expertise to his role, having spent his entire adulthood
in academia. A native of Colorado, he received a bachelor’s
degree in molecular biology from the University of Colorado,
a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of
Wyoming and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the State
University of New York at Buffalo School of Pharmacy.
Prior to his appointment at the College, Pieper served
as professor and dean of the College of Pharmacy at the
University of New Mexico, with concurrent appointments as
vice president for research and deputy executive vice president
at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in
Albuquerque. He had previously worked at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of
Colorado. Pieper is also a past president of the American
College of Clinical Pharmacy.
At St. Louis College of Pharmacy, Pieper has worked to
position the College to be at the forefront of pharmacy
education by creating a transformational strategic plan.
A few of his many accomplishments include an enhanced
curriculum that includes three years of undergraduate work
followed by four years in a professional doctoral program
with an integrated bachelor’s degree. Under his leadership,
the College is also partnering with other premier institutions
to establish cutting-edge research centers. In addition, the
College is currently undergoing the largest construction
project in its history.
1965
1970
A continuing
education program
is developed.
Arthur Zimmer receives
the first Outstanding
Educator Award (later
renamed the Joe E.
Haberle Outstanding
Educator Award) from
the Alumni Association.
1964
The first residence
hall opens on what
is now the Quad.
Information for this article was written
and compiled by Blaire Leible Garwitz,
Bob Zebroski, and Dennis Doyle.
1978
1980
Intercollegiate
A new program
sports are no
of externships
longer offered.
in community
pharmacies and
clerkships at
clinical practice
sites, mandated by
ACPE, is initiated.
150 Years of Educating
Pharmacy Innovators,
the complete history of St. Louis College
of Pharmacy, will be published in 2015.
The book, written by BOB ZEBROSKI,
professor of history; interim associate
dean of arts and sciences; and interim
chair of the department of liberal arts,
and DENNIS DOYLE, assistant professor of
history, shares the lives and legacies of
even more STLCOP leaders and tells the
full story of the College from its founding
in 1864 to the present.
1981
1983
The College opens
Rabe Hall on Forest
Park Ave., formerly
the Town and
Country apartment
complex, which had
Sumner Robinson
been renovated as
becomes the second
student housing for
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president of STLCOP.
upperclassmen.
Campus Traditions:
Then & Now
By Stephanie Hoffmann
FACU LT Y AU CT I O N
T H E PER I PH ER A L B R A I N
SEN I O R T R I PS
St. Louis College of Pharmacy students love pooling their
financial resources together for a night out with their favorite
professors, a mortar and pestle from a far-flung nation, or
a professor-led study session with pizza—all items donated
by faculty members during the annual Student Pharmacists
Association’s (SPA) faculty auction. Faculty members donate
a service or item for students to bid on in an effort to raise
money for a local charity, SPA-organized health fairs, and
students’ professional travel expenses.
Cramming for a therapeutics exam can be stressful enough,
so how about creating a professor-approved cheat sheet to
use during the exam? Students in the mid-90s and early 2000s
could buy a small notebook, meant to fit in their lab coats,
to fill with a condensed version of therapeutics notes to use
as a reference during exams. The notebooks were intended
to help students learn the material by forcing them to siŽ
through their notes, identify key pieces of information, and
sort it out (in their small notebooks) in a format that was
easiest for them to understand. Because of the notebook’s
limited space and time limits on tests, the notebooks had to be
highly organized and used sparingly as a quick reference—as
students organized the notebooks, they learned the material.
Notes typically included treatment algorithms, dosage
formulations, starting and titration doses, and lab results.
One of the great traditions for many STLCOP students
was the Senior Trip, which was open to all seniors to visit
pharmaceutical manufacturers, usually Abbo¡ Laboratories
in Chicago, Eli Lilly in Indianapolis , or E.R. Squibb & Sons
and Lederle Laboratories in the New York area. These trips
were designed to teach the students about the development
and manufacturing of drugs. Seniors also saw the trip as a
chance to see new things and celebrate their completion of
the pharmacy program. Classmates assigned each other to
bring the essentials in preparation for the trip: soda, snacks,
ice, and adult beverages.
Students place bids on
around 30 different
items. In addition to
faculty donations,
student organizations
donate services such as
a “Treat of the Month
Club” membership,
in which members of
Lambda Kappa Sigma
bake cookies during
the school year for the
winning bidder, or two
hours of yard and house chores done by members of Kappa
Psi. In its early days, top auction items included a night with
friends, hot dogs, and poker at Dr. Naeger’s garage in Dogtown.
These days, bowling nights with pharmacy practice faculty
oŽen bring in the most money.
1985
1986
1986
An evening
Master of
Science in
pharmacy
administration
is offered.
The College begins
a $7 million campus
renovation—a student
center, outdoor quad,
two-story addition
to the library, and
renovations to the
main academic
building.
The College
offers an optional
six-year Doctor
of Pharmacy
degree.
Yet, it was the students who determined the fate of this
tradition, possibly due to the stress of deciding what to include
in their brains and, ultimately, trying to shrink their notes to
the smallest, perceptible font size! “I tried to photocopy the
information to make it as small as possible in order to cram it
all in,” says Janene Verrant ’98/’99.
An abstract completed by pharmacy practice faculty members
Julie Murphy, Patrick Finnegan ’02/’03, Alicia Forinash ’00/’01,
and Sue Bollmeier ’99/’00 in 2006 surveyed students and
showed there was no increase in satisfaction or exam results
when students used the peripheral brain compared to when
they didn’t—thus the tradition sadly came to an end.
1988
STLCOP collaborates
with Barnes Hospital
School of Nursing in
its three-year nursing
program. STLCOP
faculty teach science
and liberal arts courses
for nursing students
on the College campus.
1993
Intercollegiate
sports start up
again with both
men’s basketball
and women’s
volleyball.
1991
1994
The first issue of
Script magazine
is published.
Thomas F. Patton
becomes the third
president of the College.
Memories from the senior trips are legendary, from
classmates being leŽ behind at the train station, to buses
breaking down along deserted highways, learning of the
Kennedy assassination through storefront windows on
New York City’s 5th Avenue, and being wined and dined by
the company’s executives. “Mrs. Phyllis Sarich (who taught
microbiology) and her husband, Ma¡, worked some magic
with his employer, Winthrop Laboratories, to co-host our
class trip to New York City,” says Larry Martin ’69. “We had a
cocktail and dinner reception with Winthrop’s top executives
and scientists. Talwin (Pentazocine) was a brand new
analgesic that everyone hoped would provide great pain
relief without addiction issues. We actually met and had
dinner with the scientists who developed the drug. It was
incredible,” Martin says.
1994
1995
1996
The new athletic
team name and
mascot, the
“Eutectic,” is
chosen by students,
faculty, and staff to
replace “Rex,” the
purple dinosaur.
A new 29,000square-foot academic
building, later named
Whelpley Hall, is
completed with
classrooms, offices,
and a 300-seat
auditorium. A parking
garage is also added.
The first
White Coat
Ceremony
is held.
2000
A Doctor of
Pharmacy
becomes the
entry-level
degree to
practice
pharmacy.
“On the bus ride to Lilly, my wife of only a few months
accompanied me,” says Larry Caruso ’85. “We rode on the bus
that was chaperoned by Dr. Haberle and his wife. On the back
of the bus, we started a game of ‘truth or dare.’ I chose a ‘dare,’
which was to go up and kiss Mrs. Haberle. I walked up to
Dr. Haberle and his wife and, aŽer a lengthy explanation
of my dilemma, he eventually gave me permission to kiss
his wife. As I was bending over, lips puckered to complete
my dare, Dr. Haberle stopped me and said, ‘You asked me if
it was okay, but you failed to get her permission!’ Red from
embarrassment, I humbly asked Mrs. Haberle. She graciously
agreed to allow the kiss, and my ‘dare’ was complete.”
The last official senior trip was held in 1999, much to the
dismay of underclassmen. While pharmaceutical companies
no longer invite students to their facilities, today’s professional
year 4 (P4) students gain firsthand experience in hospitals,
clinics, community pharmacies, and other practice se¡ings
through eight five-week Advanced Pharmacy Practice
Experience rotations.
2001
The first STLCOP
C.A.R.E.S.
community day of
service is created
by members of the
Student Pharmacists
Association.
2003
Campus is renovated
with a new eight-story
residence hall, café,
and improvements to
the main academic
building, now named
Jones Hall.
2009
The College
completes a land
swap with Washington
University School
of Medicine, trading
Rabe Hall for 1.2
acres of land
adjacent to the
STLCOP campus.
H A N G O U TS A N D H OT SP OTS
T H E M ASCOT
T H E VA R I ET Y SH OW
STLCOP students will always remember the demanding
pharmacy curriculum at STLCOP, but they also tend to
remember their favorite spots and ways to take a study
break or de-stress aŽer a tough exam. Many of the students’
favorites have come and gone in the Central West End, such as
El Ranchero, where students would meet faculty for drinks,
or The Majestic, which served an affordable hot breakfast.
However today’s students still carry on the traditions of the
Half-Way Party at the start of their fourth year, fraternity
mixers at the American Legion Hall in Maplewood, the Holiday
Dance in December, and popping into Rosie’s or Tom’s Bar &
Grill aŽer a test. Though no longer open as a 24-hour diner,
Tom’s still offers students a place to relax over food and drink
and sing karaoke on the weekends!
While STLCOP boasts national rankings in academics, it
also has made national headlines for its unique mascot. The
Eutectic was born during the 1993-94 academic year when
the College joined the National Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics (NAIA). The College held a campus-wide contest to
replace Rex, its friendly purple dinosaur mascot. Then student
Wendi McKinzie ’94/’95 first suggested the name “Eutectic,”
which quickly caught on among students and faculty and
beat out the runner-up “Panther” mascot, receiving 218 votes
to the Panther’s 194. Other mascot suggestions included the
“Volunteers,” which was the original STLCOP mascot when it
first fielded intercollegiate teams, and the “Pioneers.” A 1994
press release announcing the new mascot stated: “Just as our
College is unique in many ways, we have a pharmacy-related
mascot that is distinctive to our College. Eutectic—a term
describing when two solids form a liquid—is an interesting
metaphor for teamwork and for mixing intercollegiate athletics
with an academically challenging educational program.”
STLCOP students have always been encouraging each other to
show off their talents outside of the classroom. Bob Zebroski,
professor of history and then Student Council advisor, recalls
helping judge the student lip-syncing contest in the early 90s
during Homecoming Week. There were four student acts, no
emcee, and two judges, Mrs. Be¡y Rooney (the registrar) and
Zebroski. First prize was a $25 giŽ certificate.
When creating the first Eutectic costume, the College wanted
its mascot to be non-gendered, showcase strength, and be fierce,
but not threatening. The brown gremlin-like mascot costume,
funded by the Alumni Association and Student Alumni Association and wearing a white lab coat, was officially presented to the
College community on Sept. 13, 1994, at a women’s volleyball
game. On Aug. 26, 2009, the College unveiled a redesigned
Eutectic mascot and named it Mortarmer “Morty” McPestle,
by popular student vote. The new, 6-foot-tall mascot still looks
fierce, but hardly resembles its previous incarnation.
2010
2010
The College’s
endowment
reaches $94
million.
STLCOP receives
the largest gift in
its history: $5.9
million from the
Whelpley trust.
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2010
John A. Pieper
becomes the fourth
president of the College.
2011
The Board
of Trustees
approves
STLCOP
20/20, a
new strategic
plan, in June.
2011
STLCOP, the city of
St. Louis, and the
Drug Enforcement
Administration create
the St. Louis Medication
Disposal Initiative.
2012
STLCOP is named
a “Great College
to Work For” by
The Chronicle of
Higher Education.
It is named again
in 2013 and 2014.
Students broadened their talents and the number of acts,
which soon included lip syncing as well, at the STLCOP
Variety Show. Faculty members such as Dr. Evelyn Becker,
Dr. Lucia Tranel, Dr. Leonard Naeger and President Thomas
Pa¡on volunteered as emcees. Many acts focused less on
talent and more on good-natured imitations of professors.
“If you were ridiculed during the Variety Show, it meant the
students liked you,” recalls Tom Zlatic, professor of English.
Starting in the late 90s, students hired a professional
comedian to perform a 20-minute stand-up routine and serve
as emcee. Winning acts began receiving cash prizes and
winners were categorized into groups including individual,
group, or fraternity.
Today, a comedian still hosts the show, which averages
about 20 acts including singing, dancing, playing of musical
instruments and poetry. These days, the first place prize can
earn you a couple hundred dollars!
2013
2013
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
The College opens
an Alumni House on
Laclede Avenue, two
blocks from campus.
Professor John
Beale discovers four
drug compounds to
treat and prevent
Alzheimer’s disease
and dementia,
acquiring the first
patents in the
College’s history.
The College
introduces a
seven-year Doctor
of Pharmacy
degree with
an integrated
bachelor’s in
health humanities
or health sciences.
STLCOP and UMSL
form a collaborative
program for students
to obtain an MBA or
graduate certificate in
Business Administration.
The last
basketball game
is held in
The Pillbox in
the Cartwright
Student Center.
It is demolished
in March.
The College offers men’s and
women’s basketball, cross
country, track and field, tennis,
and soccer as well as women’s
volleyball and softball. STLCOP
leaves the Kentucky Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference after 20
years to join the American
Midwest Conference.
Groundbreaking
for a new
213,000square-foot
academic
and research
building and
library takes
place in April.
150
THINGS WE
LOVE ABOUT
STLCOP
To honor our sesquicentennial, Script
magazine set out to create a list of 150
things we (and you) love about STLCOP.
The list isn’t ranked in any particular order
or in any logical way. Many of you sent in
suggestions on social media or through our
@STLCOP newsletter. We probably missed
a few things you love about STLCOP, and
we’re sorry we couldn’t include everything.
But we have included the full “150 Things”
at stlcop.edu/150, and we’d love to hear
about your unforgettable memory, place,
or person from your days at STLCOP.
HAPPY 150th STLCOP!
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4588 PARKVIEW PLACE
The address has changed seven times,
but the current campus has been here
since 1927. The community and the city
have grown up around us. For decades,
Parkview Place was a through street
where houses and parked cars lined the
street instead of a pedestrian walkway.
Today, STLCOP is located in the middle
of the bustling Central West End and
is adjacent to one of the world’s largest
research and patient-care centers.
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JOE E. HABERLE
The professor who tried to
mess with your head and
asked, “Are you sure about
that?” The same guy who just
“showed up” to visit when
you were in the hospital.
№77 GREEK LIFE
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35
SACRED HOUR
The one hour, two days a
week, where no classes are
scheduled so student groups
can meet or we can have time
to study or just do nothing.
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THE QUAD
The coveted, singular
green space on campus.
MORTY, THE EUTECTIC
Our species-less golden boy that defies classification. Is it a bear? Is it a monster?
No, it’s Mortarmer McPestle, and his claims to fame include being recognized as
one of the most obscure mascots by ESPN and one of the worst mascot names
by TIME magazine. It’s true, we don’t know what he is, but we love him anyway.
WATERMELON
BASHING AND
BULL RIDING
№59
Kim Grzeskowiak (athletic
director and student council
advisor in the 80s and 90s)
“She was an amazing person
who always had a smile and
kind words for the students.”
Amy Weckman ’98/’99
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COMMENCEMENT
In a ceremony full of
tradition, hundreds of
graduates have walked
through The Chase Park
Plaza (and other locations)
to begin pharmacy careers.
№23
IT’S WHERE STLCOP
STUDENTS FIND
THEIR BETTER HALF.
STLCOP students marry
each other. A lot.
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№5 CULTURE OF CARING
“My father died during my fourth year at STLCOP and, back
then, you had to have a co-signer for a checking account. All of
my funds were frozen, and I couldn’t write a check for tuition
for the second semester. Drs. Haberle and Naeger ’63/’65 and
Hilory Still ’52/’53 wrote checks and paid my tuition until
my funds were freed up so I could stay in pharmacy school.
I named my oldest daughter after one of those instructors.
Everybody at STLCOP was dedicated to making sure we
got somewhere at the end of our years here.” Starlin HaydonGreatting ’81
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VIEWS OF THE
DOWNTOWN SKYLINE
FROM THE FIFTH FLOOR
OF JONES HALL.
We get to take in a concert by the
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra or watch
the wonderful and strange acrobatics of
dancers. And get credit for it.
HOLIDAY DANCE
’nough said.
Since 2005, this student-run day of service
has brought together the entire STLCOP
community to provide health screenings at local
pharmacies, clean up Forest Park, and participate
at many other locations in the metro area.
№33
ALL THE
PROFESSORS KNOW
YOU BY NAME.
YOU AND THE COLLEGE
PRESIDENT WERE PRETTY TIGHT.
INTRAMURAL AND CLUB SPORTS. ROLLER HOCKEY!
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№10
98
DOC NAEGER
The only professor with a statue on campus,
and the only one with fuzzy dog slippers.
№27 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
“The opportunity to get to know people of different
cultures on a personal level.” Jonathon Anderson ’11
IT TAKES A TOTAL
OF FIVE MINUTES TO
WALK ACROSS CAMPUS.
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№19
Sweeney Todd. CATS. You can take
the stage and prove that pharmacists
are more than left-brained geniuses.
It’s encouraged and expected.
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The point where you know you’re going to make it!
STLCOP THEATER
№49
LIBERAL ARTS
CONVOCATIONS
WHITE COAT CEREMONY
STLCOP C.A.R.E.S.
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TRIPS TO
PHARMACEUTICAL
MANUFACTURERS
№12
TOM’S BAR AND GRILL
Serving burgers and beer to
students since 1976. There’s
not a safe place within a fiveblock radius of the Central
West End to vent about that
pathio quiz.
№50
YOU KNOW
EVERYONE IN YOUR
MAJOR.
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YOU KNOW THE
CAFETERIA COOKS
AND SECURITY
OFFICERS BY NAME.
№70 LIFELONG LEARNING
STLCOP’s Office of Continuing Education serves alumni
with a variety of courses. New courses are always being added
to provide professional development offerings.
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DOG SITTING FOR
SWEET DEE IN RESIDENCE HALL.
№71
LEGISLATIVE DAY
Because if pharmacists
don’t do it, who will?
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№22 OATH OF A PHARMACIST
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“To consider the welfare of humanity and
relief of suffering” is not just the first line
in the Oath of a Pharmacist, it’s a campus
philosophy and our shared passion.
HEALTH CARE
LEADERS ON
CAMPUS LIKE
FORMER U.S.
SURGEON GENERAL
DAVID SATCHER.
№21
RESIDENCE HALL
It’s your home away from
home and second family,
complete with parents
(student affairs staff) and
aunts and uncles (RAs).
It’s where everyone belongs!
THE PILLBOX
The last game was held in the gym Feb. 22, 2014, but the good ones never really die.
A new gym is being planned as part of a multimillion-dollar campus transformation.
HUMAN
PYRAMIDS
DURING
HOMECOMING
WEEK
№37
2009 KIAC
CROSS COUNTRY
CHAMPIONS
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№9
STUDENT ATHLETES
Every year, STLCOP students
achieve success on and off
the field with NAIA honors
and accolades for high
achievements in the classroom.
INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
We work with students of medicine, nursing, and
physical and occupational therapy from Washington
University and Goldfarb School of Nursing during
interprofessional education experiences that
prepare us for practice on a health care team.
The nation’s largest urban
park—a block from campus.
A place to walk, run, train,
talk, or practice soccer.
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75
16
№51
FOREST PARK
№34
№7
ALL OF OUR FRIENDS
ARE REALLY INTO
MATH AND SCIENCE.
I MEAN REALLY INTO
MATH AND SCIENCE.
№3
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THIRD-OLDEST
CONTINUALLY OPERATING
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
IN THE NATION. AND WE
STILL LOOK GOOD.
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THE ORIGINAL IVYCOVERED ENTRANCE
№4
ONE OF THE TOP
FOUR PRIVATE COLLEGES OF
PHARMACY IN THE COUNTRY
(ranked by U.S. News & World Report).
THE ORIGINAL WORN
STEPS IN JONES HALL
MOVE-IN DAY
The complete exhilaration of
move-in day when faculty, staff,
and students come together to
greet you with smiles, carts,
and muscles to help make the
transition a little easier.
№54
YOU REALLY CAN PAY OFF
YOUR LOANS IN FIVE TO
10 YEARS.
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SURVIVAL KITS
& STATIONS
The Alumni Association-sponsored
sustenance for stressed-out students.
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BECAUSE EVERYONE
ELSE IN MY FAMILY
LOVED IT.
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FRANK MERCER,
WHO COULD WRITE
WITH ONE HAND
AND ERASE WITH
THE OTHER.
WAX ON, WAX OFF.
№41 WHELPLEY HALL
Where the second floor is the
first floor, the first floor is the
lower level, and the third floor
is the second floor...we think.
№32
When STLCOP students
need to “use up” café points
at the end of the semester,
the person in front of you
in line might swipe his
card to buy you lunch.
№30
STUDENTS ALWAYS
GO OUT OF THEIR
WAY TO TUTOR OR
HELP EACH OTHER
STUDY.
№2
FAMILY
WEEKEND
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№65
STUDENT BODY
UNION
The governing body
of STLCOP students,
giving us a voice in policy
decisions and involving
students on administrative
and faculty committees.
VARIETY SHOW
№25
№74
№38
A scholarship, donated
by faculty and staff, that
helps a student in need.
This year, the award
amount covered the cost
of an entire academic
year at the College.
A STLCOP DEGREE
PREPARES US FOR
THE 5TH BEST
JOB OVERALL (U.S.
NEWS & WORLD
REPORT ).
STLCOP is a “Great
Place to Work For”
(named by The Chronicle
of Higher Education).
DIWALI
The Hindu Festival
of Lights during
Multicultural Week.
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You are able to toss more acronyms into casual
conversation than should be humanly possible.
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DR. BYRON BARNES
THE STLCOP
FACULTY AND
STAFF SCHOLARSHIP
№79
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WEEDS AND SEEDS
The affectionate name given to
the lab section of Dr. Lindhorst’s
pharmacognosy course, in which
we identified henbane, aconite,
psyllium, goldseal, digitalis.
“We spent hours studying jars
of weeds, seeds, roots, and
leaves.” Larry Martin ’69
Talking to kids and
parents at the St. Louis
Science Center about
medication safety as part of
an introductory pharmacy
practice experience.
Who knew M&M’s could
be mistaken for medicine?
№14
MEDICATION DISPOSAL
STLCOP students and faculty work with the
city of St. Louis and the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration to safely dispose of unwanted
medications. Last year, the initiative collected 16,311
pounds of medication from the St. Louis area!
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registration incarnations
By Brad Brown
From acute care to writing for health, students at St. Louis College of Pharmacy
have more than 160 listed courses to choose from. Going back 150 years,
the options were far fewer, with just four regular courses: botany, chemistry,
materia medica, and pharmacy. These early courses planted the seeds for
the College, and the education of STLCOP students, to grow.
BOTANY
The study of botany, for students
in the first class of 1865, was deemed
necessary to help better understand both
the materia medica and pharmacy courses.
The class met twice a week for 20 weeks of
lectures and a weekly field trip either in the countryside or at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The first half
of the lecture series was devoted to the structure of
plants and their development. The second half focused
on systematic botany, now known as systematics, which
is a broad area of study that names, categorizes, and
provides the history of organisms.
For today’s students, botany is taught under the
umbrella of biology courses, which are spread across
the first three years of study. The College’s introductory biology series covers topics never
imagined in 1865, like biological pathways
within cells, energy creation and utilization,
and gene expression. The basics of systematics are
still taught as well as the interactions between living
organisms and the non-living environment. Nucleic
acids—which, along with proteins, are the building
blocks of all life—were not identified until four years
after the College’s first botany lectures. Today, they are
among the first concepts taught during the modern
classes. The modern biology courses also spend an
entire semester on human anatomy and another
semester on human physiology.
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CHEMISTRY
The chemistry course in the
College’s early history focused on
the
elements, their symbols, and formulae. The course also touched on organic chemistry
and descriptions of common compounds like gums,
starches, and sugars. There were demonstrations in
class, but the subject was approached from a theoretical perspective.
“In chemistry, there is a lot of data collected, and
students focus on looking at data, drawing conclusions,
and making assessments based on those conclusions,”
says Ehren Bucholtz, associate professor of organic
chemistry. “That is what pharmacists do in their
everyday workload.”
Eight chemistry courses are currently taught, and
the subject is integrated into many related courses.
The College’s curriculum now blends organic
and general chemistry across several semesters,
building knowledge from atoms to bonds and
all the way up to structures, something not many
other institutions of higher education are doing.
“Traditionally first-year chemistry has been taught
incorporating mathematical and chemical concepts,”
Bucholtz says. “Sometimes this leads students to make
a choice to learn either the math or chemistry. We put
less emphasis on the calculations and are focusing on
building chemical principles. After a chemical knowledge base is built, we incorporate math to support
the concepts.”
MATERIA MEDICA
For the inaugural class of students at the
College, the materia medica course was,
according to the College’s 1865 quarterly
Bulletin, “confined to all substances of animal or
vegetable origin used in medicine, or pertaining to
the business of the druggist.” The course built on the
student’s knowledge of botany and delved deeper
into how parts of plants could be used as medicine.
Today, many of the ideas and concepts taught
in materia medica can be found in pharmacology,
a required course for students in the second
professional year at the College.
“Pharmacology provides the answers on ‘how’ and
‘why’ substances interact with biological systems,”
says Jasmina Profirovic, Ph.D., assistant professor of
pharmacology.
When materia medica was first taught, drug
discovery identified natural products and their effects
on the body. Modern drug discovery, Profirovic says,
might rather be defined as drug invention, the process
in which drugs are designed based on previously
identified and well-defined targets.
“We want our students to know and critically
analyze the mechanisms of drug actions, the adverse
effects, drug biotransformation, and the basis of
drug-drug and drug-food interactions,” Profirovic says.
PHARMACY
The College’s first pharmacy course
focused exclusively on the preparation
of drugs. The College’s 1865 brochure
described the students’ activities, which included:
“pulverizing, dissolving, evaporating, distilling,
crystallizing, etc.” Students went on to learn about
how to properly store medications and how to work
with an apothecary. The third part of the course
focused on the apothecary’s laboratory.
That one course grew into many courses focused on
different aspects of the profession. Now the emphasis
is on the appropriate and safe use of manufactured
medication. However, compounding is still taught as
part of the curriculum. It is introduced in the first
pharmaceutics course during the first professional
year. Students can also enroll in a two credit-hour
course for hands-on practice in modern compounding
technique.
“Today’s pharmacy courses, and all of the
courses now offered, are focused on preparing
our graduates to provide high-level, interprofessional patient and population care,” says
Tricia Berry, Pharm.D., BCPS, professor and interim
department chair of pharmacy practice. “We want
pharmacists to be experts in the optimal use of
medications, promoters of health and wellness, and
effective patient educators and advocates.”
Lecture and Laboratory Schedules
Tickets
for Class
In the 1880s, St. Louis
College of Pharmacy
students paid their
tuition to attend classes
by buying tickets—at
$10 each—for lectures
in pharmacy, chemistry,
and materia medica.
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ADOLPH AUER ’43
EMMA GRUBER AUER ’44
JOANN AUER ’80
Growing up in her father’s
independent pharmacy at Lemp
and Utah in St. Louis, JoAnn Auer
’80 saw firsthand how dedicated
her father, Adolph Auer ’43, was
to his business and his patients.
“My dad’s work ethic was amazing,” she says. “Most of the time
he’d work 12-hour days. He never
took a day off, not even when his
kids were born!” His commitment
to his community made an impact
on his patients as well. “At his
100th birthday party, patients from
the neighborhood where dad
owned his business, Auer Drug,
came to see him,” JoAnn says.
“One woman recalled a time when
dad went out of his way to help her.
Her doctor gave her a prescription
for her sick child, but she didn’t
have a car and couldn’t get to the
pharmacy to fill it. She called my
dad, who filled the prescription
immediately. Then he closed his
store, drove to the woman’s
house, delivered the medication,
and went back to work.”
ERNST WINKELMANN ’21
DANIEL P. WINKELMANN I ’27
DANIEL P. WINKELMANN II ’58
DANIEL P. WINKELMANN III ’85
Like her husband, Adolph,
Emma Auer ’44 also made a
significant impact on the profession. “Thanks to people like my
mother, women have a chance
to do anything they want to do,”
JoAnn says. “My mom was a
part of a generation that broke
through the glass ceiling.” Emma
was one of five women in her
class of 20, when due to influences
from World War II, the program was
accelerated to three years. Despite
these challenges, she excelled
in her studies and eventually
went to work at Central Drug
Store in East St. Louis, where
she and Adolph met.
Years later, their legacy
lives on through their children,
including JoAnn, who has worked
in the pharmacy profession for
34 years. Like her parents, she
is grateful for the education she
received at STLCOP. “There is
a sense of connectedness at
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
that doesn’t seem to exist at
other colleges or universities,”
JoAnn says. “If you choose to
succeed here, you will; every
person here will help you attain
that goal. That hasn’t changed
from the time my parents went
here, and I doubt it ever will.”
In 1903, Ernst Winkelmann ’21 and
his brothers, Henry and Christopher,
opened Winkelmann Pharmacy. Four
generations later, the pharmacy
continues to be a family tradition.
“Ernst was my grandfather,” says
Daniel Winkelmann II ’58. “He started
the business with his brothers and, in
1946, my father, Daniel Winkelmann I,
bought the pharmacy and carried on
their work.” Many of Dan’s memories
from childhood involve his father’s
pharmacy. “I swept the floor and
straightened the greeting cards and,
eventually, I graduated to working
at the soda fountain and making
deliveries by bicycle.” Despite coming
from two generations of pharmacists,
Dan says his father let him choose
his career path. “I was an only child,
Three families, united by their passion for independent pharmacy
and their dedication to St. Louis College of Pharmacy, explain why
generations of families plant roots at STLCOP.
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Story by Stacy Austerman
Photos by Lauren Winchester
as well, Dan asked him to consider
STLCOP. “I told Danny that if he
studied at St. Louis College of
Pharmacy, he’d be learning from
and working with his future peers,”
Dan says. “The College connects
you to your community. You build
relationships with other pharmacists
and the people who eventually
become your patients.”
THOMAS FRANCIS SHANAHAN ’28
THOMAS JOSEPH SHANAHAN ’59
MOLEIGH CARSON, FRESHMAN
FOUNDING
Families
but I wasn’t pressured into carrying
on the business,” he says. “I knew
STLCOP was a great school because
my uncles and dad went there, and I
saw from my father that pharmacy was
a profitable career that allowed you to
give back to your community. Ultimately
it was my choice to study pharmacy at
the College, and it was the right one.”
When his son, Daniel Winkelmann
III ’85, decided to pursue pharmacy
When freshman Moleigh Carson told
her grandfather, Tom Shanahan ’59,
that she wanted to study pharmacy
at STLCOP, he was so proud to have
his granddaughter make the same
choice he had made years before.
“I promised myself that I wouldn’t
pressure her,” Tom says. “She made
the decision on her own, and I am so
happy with her choice.”
Moleigh is a third-generation
student at the College; her grand-
father graduated in 1953
and her great-grandfather,
Thomas Francis Shanahan,
was in the class of 1928. As
an independent pharmacist
in the Chicago area, Thomas
Francis Shanahan taught
his son the skills needed
to manage a community
pharmacy. “My father’s
pharmacy was well respected,” Tom
says. “All the physicians knew that
when they sent patients there, they
would be treated fairly and have their
prescription compounded quickly.”
Tom worked in his father’s
pharmacy as a young man, and when
it was time for him to choose a college
and career, he followed in his father’s
footsteps at STLCOP. After graduation,
he worked in both community
pharmacy and industry settings, and
continues to work in a community
pharmacy outside of Chicago today.
“When Moleigh told me she was
thinking about becoming a pharmacist, I suggested she work with me,”
Tom says. “I wanted her to see what
happens in a busy community
pharmacy. I stressed to her that no
matter what she does with her
degree, she has to know how to
communicate with patients. Communication has to be a priority.”
As she gets deeper into her first
semester at the College, Moleigh holds
onto her grandfather’s advice. “No
matter what I choose, I want to make
an impact,” Moleigh says. “I feel like
I can do that as a pharmacist.”
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FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS
For 150 years, St. Louis College of
Pharmacy has been gathering, talking,
and aspiring to be a national and
international leader in pharmacy
education. And we can prove it.
The College has a rich history of common,
eveyday people coming together to do
extraordinary things along with ways of
documenting and sharing the incredible
journey.
Since the very beginning, the College has kept
a written record of the Board of Trustees meeting
minutes—from Nov. 11, 1864! The minutes spell
out, in finely scripted handwriting, prosaically
accurate accounts of the decisions being made at the
time. There were discussions of how much to spend
on cigars for the semi-centennial in 1914 and balance
sheets listing street car expenses to Shaw’s Garden for
the same event ($45.25). The total approved budget
for the celebration was $2,368.46.
The minutes also detail historic moments in the
College’s history as if, somehow, the early board
members had an inclination of the significance
STLCOP would have over time. The softened leather
ledgers authenticate the creation of the charter,
constitution, and bylaws of the College. They provide
insight on what new laws were affecting pharmacists
in 1877 and what degrees were going to be offered
in 1896 (Graduate in Pharmacy and Bachelor of
Pharmacy). And they offer a glimpse into the early
founders and leaders of an institution that seemed
to care as much about writing a thank-you letter to
a woman who provided food for an event as keeping
track of receipts and expenditures.
Early on, “moral character” was set by the board
as one of the graduation requirements at St. Louis
College of Pharmacy. And it’s one of the traits that
continues to endure among STLCOP students. The
minutes are a tangible legacy of the original spirit
and intent of what makes this place special.
The College has kept up the tradition of recording
its history in various other publications, including the
St. Louis College of Pharmacy Alumnus, which later
became the News Capsule and then Script magazine.
In 1964, John P. Winkelmann ’60 wrote the History
of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, the only comprehensive book on the College. Until now, that is.
In 2015, Professor of History Bob Zebroski and
Assistant Professor of History Dennis Doyle will
release 150 Years of Educating Pharmacy Innovators,
a complete history of St. Louis College of Pharmacy. The book will be available for pre-order at
the Sesquicentennial Gala. It will also be available
at Barnes & Noble, the College’s bookstore, and on
the Barnes & Noble online store throughout the
sesquicentennial year. For more information, go to
stlcop.edu/bookstore.
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NEWS
CAPSULE
1976
COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAM
1893
ACADEMIC
C ATA L O G
1965
ANNUAL
REPORT
2002
COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAM
1910
ACADEMIC
C ATA L O G
1999
THE
ALUMNUS
1953
SCRIPT ALUMNI
MAGAZINE
1991
COLLEGE
VIEWBOOK
2014
COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAM
1994
BOARD
MINUTES
1864
CONSTITUTION
AND BYLAWS
1930
COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAM
1964
ANNUAL
REPORT
1992
SCRIPT ALUMNI
MAGAZINE
2000
COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAM
1900
ACADEMIC
C ATA L O G
1988
NEWS
CAPSULE
1984
ANNUAL
BULLETIN
1951
ANNUAL
REPORT
1993
SCRIPT ALUMNI
MAGAZINE
2011
SCRIPT ALUMNI
MAGAZINE
2010
SCRIPT ALUMNI
MAGAZINE
1993
NEWS
CAPSULE
1968
ACADEMIC
C ATA L O G
1981
H I S T O RY O F T H E S T. L O U I S
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
1964
NEWS
CAPSULE
1967
COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAM
2011
ACADEMIC
C ATA L O G
1991
COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAM
2014
Q U A R T E R LY
BULLETIN
1898
SCRIPT ALUMNI
MAGAZINE
2012
1 5 0 Y E A R S O F E D U C AT I N G
P H A R M A C Y I N N O VAT O R S
2015
COMMENCEMENT
BANQUET
1875
ACADEMIC
C ATA L O G
1976
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Class Notes
AUER
1940s
Adolph Auer ’43 celebrated
his 100th birthday on Aug.
27. His wife, Emma (Gruber)
Auer ’44, also attended
STLCOP. The couple lives
in Belleville, Ill.
Class Notes
DEGENHART
1960s
Mary Louise Degenhart ’60
celebrated her 60th anniversary as a sister of the Adorers
of the Blood of Christ on
June 22 in Ruma, Ill.
Leonard Rybak ’69 has been
awarded a five-year federal
grant from the National
Institute of Deafness and
Communication Disorders
of the National Institutes of
Health to continue his studies
of how to reduce hearing loss
in cancer patients undergoing
chemotherapy treatment.
Leonard is a physician
researcher at Southern Illinois
University (SIU) School of
Medicine in Springfield.
Herschel Ryales ’67 was
recently appointed by
President Barack Obama to
the Selective Service Board
of Kenosha County, Wis.
Hershel is also working on his
Master of Science degree in
project management at the
University of Wisconsin.
1970s
Dennis Helling ’71 received
the 2013 Remington Honor
Medal, the highest honor
bestowed by the American
Pharmacists Association
(APhA), in recognition of his
innovations and advancements
in the pharmacy profession.
HELLING
He recently retired as executive
director of pharmacy operations and therapeutics for
Kaiser Permanente in Denver,
Colo. Dennis was also recently
elected to the APhA board
of trustees.
Ned Randle’s ’73 short story,
“Wild Bill,” was accepted
into Red Earth Review, a
literary magazine published by
the Red Earth MFA program
at Oklahoma City University
in July. Ned and his wife,
Rita, live in Smithton, Ill.
Neil Schmidt ’73 retired June
30 from his position as system
pharmacy manager for the
University of Missouri Health
System in Columbia, Mo. He
resides in Wildwood, Mo.
BURKETT
GLASTETTER
1990s
Janine (Pallone) Burkett ’91
was elected president of the
Missouri Board of Pharmacy
in July. She has been a
member of the board since
her appointment in 2010.
Janine is vice president and
chief drug sourcing officer
for Express Scripts, Inc.
Janine and her husband,
Steve, live in St. Louis.
Rhonda (Hunter) Maxwell
’98 and Matt Maxwell ’98
opened Maxwell Pharmacy on
June 9, 2013, in Hannibal, Mo.
2000s
Kilinyaa Cothran ’01
received an award for best
session at the Missouri College
Personnel Association conference. She presented “Feeding
Lambda Chi Alpha Celebrates 10 Years
This year, the Pi Lambda Zeta chapter of
Lambda Chi Alpha (LXA), the College’s only
social fraternity, celebrates 10 years since the
chapter was established at St. Louis College
of Pharmacy.
Throughout the years, LXA has been a threetime recipient of STLCOP’s Organization of
the Year Award, and the STLCOP chapter has
been a two-time recipient of the Grand High
Alpha Award, the highest award given by the
national fraternity (and can only be awarded
once in a five-year span). In 10 years, LXA has
initiated more than 200 male students into
the Pi Lambda Zeta chapter and remains the
largest male Greek organization on campus.
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As one of the founding fathers of LXA,
Brandon Eldridge ’09 is proud of the way
the STLCOP chapter has continued to
carry on the organization’s tradition of
fraternity, patriotism, learning, and morality.
“It’s a testament to Lambda Chi Alpha, its
educational system, core values, and most
importantly, the Associate Member Program
(an eight-week new member program each
brother participates in before being initiated
into the fraternity),” Eldridge says. “I am
extremely proud of the foundation that the
founding fathers and I created and especially
proud of what the brothers have developed
since I graduated.”
LUBSCH
ZIELINSKI
ELDRIDGE
Your Fire: Utilizing Personal
Mission Statements to Uncover
Your Core Values and Priorities,”
along with Rebecca Jones,
director of academic support
at the College. Kilinyaa is
director of professional student
affairs at the College. She and
Rebecca will present their
session at the American College
Personnel Association in
Tampa, Fla., in March 2015.
Lisa Lubsch ’00/’01 was
recently awarded the 2014
Presidential Citation for Service
by the Pediatric Pharmacy
Advocacy Group at its annual
meeting on May 2 in Nashville,
Tenn. Lisa also welcomed her
first child, Alexander Michael
Bimpasis, on Feb. 13. He
weighed 10 pounds, 10 ounces,
and measured 22 inches. Lisa
works as a clinical associate
professor in the department
of pharmacy practice at
GILL
ROBERTS
SLAVENS
Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville School of
Pharmacy.
Amy (Tex) Gill ’01 and her
husband, Pavi, welcomed
their second child, Alex Singh,
on Sept. 28, 2013. He
weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces,
and measured 21 inches. He
joins big brother, Liam, who
is 4. Amy works for Walmart
Pharmacy in Pana, Ill. The
family resides in Taylorville, Ill.
Chrissi Glastetter ’04/’05
received the St. Louis Great
Catch Award from Mercy
Hospital in June for identifying
a patient safety situation and
taking steps to prevent harm
to the patient. Chrissi is a
clinical staff pharmacist at
Mercy Hospital in St. Louis.
Steve Zielinski ’06 and his
wife, Katie, welcomed their
A Good Year
On August 8, John Hamilton ’01 and Bridge
e (Boening)
Hamilton ’97 decided to pursue another passion in their lives,
besides pharmacy, by opening their first winery. “We’re anything
but pretentious. We’ll help you find a wine or whiskey you’ll
like and provide a welcoming atmosphere that will keep you
coming back,” John says.
The Rack House West Winery in Co•leville, Mo., currently
features wine from West Winery in Macon, Mo. The Hamiltons’
winery will begin to produce its own wine this fall, with the
first batches ready by next summer. Along with wine, the
Rack House West Winery offers 90
different types of whiskey, scotch,
and bourbon, as well as a full menu,
cigar lounge, and outdoor seating.
As if the Hamiltons aren’t busy
enough with the winery, John
continues to work as vice president
of compliance and clinical for
Bellevue Pharmacy and Bridge•e
uses her counseling experience as a
volunteer at various organizations
throughout the St. Louis area.
first child, Aiden James, on
May 28. He weighed 7 pounds,
15 ounces, and measured 20
1/2 inches. Steve is the director
of pharmacy at CenterPointe
Hospital. The family lives in
O’Fallon, Mo.
Brandon Eldridge ’09 and
his wife, Angie (Schnake)
Eldridge ’09, welcomed their
first child, William Henry, on
Feb. 22. He weighed 8
pounds, 7 ounces, and
measured 20 inches. Brandon
is the pharmacist manager at
Omnicare of St. Louis, and
Angie works as a pharmacist at
Express Scripts, Inc. The
family lives in Marine, Ill.
2010s
Anthony Roberts ’10 and his
wife, Ashley, welcomed their
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first child, Ford Michael,
on June 28. He weighed 7
pounds, 3 ounces, and
measured 20 1/4 inches.
Anthony is owner and
president of St. Charles Health
Mart Pharmacy. He also
opened Greentree Pharmacy
in Kirkwood, Mo., in June.
The family resides in St. Louis.
Nicole (Rutledge) Slavens
’14 and Andrew Slavens ’14
were married April 26, in
their hometown of Effingham,
Ill. Nicole is a staff pharmacist
at Kmart Pharmacy, and
Andrew is a floating pharmacist for Walgreens Pharmacy
in Mattoon, Ill. The couple
lives in Effingham, Ill.
In Memoriam
Kiyo Fujii ’43 died July 25
in Los Angeles, Calif.
James J. Buncher ’50 died
June 27 in St. Louis.
Virgil E. Pirtle Jr. ’54 died
Sept. 7 in Clayton, Mo.
William M. Smith ’56 died
June 28 in San Antonio, Texas.
Ferran K. Eales ’58 died
Feb. 9, 2013, in Tuscon, Ariz.
Harry K. George ’60 died
Aug. 11 in Jackson, Mo.
Sandra (Hawksley) Martin
’61 died Sept. 1 in Gainesville, Mo.
Barry A. Muchnick ’62 died
Aug. 5 in Chesterfield, Mo.
Robert C. Reiter ’62 died
Dec. 21, 2013, in St. Louis.
Jack Dunning ’63 died
June 29 in Farmington, Mo.
William J. Gross ’65 died
June 19 in Godfrey, Ill.
Clara Dee (Adams) Lubben
’73 died Aug. 4 in St. Louis.
James W. Howell ’88 died
June 25 in Highland, Ill.
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The Missouri Pharmacy Association (MPA) celebrated the
outstanding efforts of individuals in the pharmacy profession during the Annual Convention and Trade Show in
St. Louis Sept. 25-28. Three St. Louis College of Pharmacy
alumni were among those honored.
Kenneth Michel ’54, a retired pharmacist in Poplar Bluff,
Mo., received the 2014 “Bowl of Hygeia” award. Michel was
recognized for dedicating his life to helping others through
both his profession and his commitment to community
service. Michel has experience in community, hospital, and
long-term care pharmacy. He is a fellow of the American
Society for Consultant Pharmacists, past president of the
Southeast Missouri Pharmacy Association, and a member
of the National Community Pharmacists Association. He is
currently serving on the Butler County Health Department
Board and has previously served as a member of his local
hospital medical ethics commi‹ee.
Amy Tiemeier ’01/’02, director of community partnerships,
associate director of experiential education, and associate
professor of pharmacy practice at St. Louis College of
Pharmacy, received the 2014 Cardinal Health Generation Rx
Champions Award. Tiemeier was recognized for her work
with the city of St. Louis, the St. Louis Area Agency on Aging,
and the regional Drug Enforcement Administration to
implement the St. Louis Medication Disposal Initiative,
which collects unused and expired medications at senior
housing apartments, senior centers, and churches
throughout the city.
Lisa Umfleet ’96, owner of Parkland Health Mart
Pharmacy in Desloge, Mo., received the 2014 Appreciation
Award. Umfleet was recognized for her enthusiasm and
willingness to take on any challenge, as well as her dedication
to the MPA Board of Directors, where she serves as a member
at large. Umfleet’s Parkland Health Mart Pharmacy was
honored with the 2013 Pharmacy of the Year Award by
McKesson Corporation. The award recognizes independent
pharmacies for the exceptional contributions they make to
their communities and the leadership they demonstrate in
the areas of quality patient care, innovative marketing,
and technology adoption.
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