Thursday, Oct. 17, 1985
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Pharmacy school honors 100 years of progress
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
One hundred years ago, 23 students went down to the basement of the old chemistry building to learn about drug use. They were the first students in the School of Pharmacy.
The school starts its three-day centennial celebration today. From its humble beginning, it has now earned a reputation of being one of the best pharmacy schools in the country.
Back when the school was founded in 1885, the dean, Lucius Sawre, was the only teacher in the school. He taught his students to prescribe rye whiskey and opium for pain and rhubarb for a mild laxative. Peppermint was thought to help upset stomachs but was mostly used to cover the bad taste of other medicines.
Howard Mossberg, current dean of pharmacy, said yesterday that pharmacy has changed a lot.
"But pharmacy is still in the storefront," he said. "It's still recognized as the purveyor of medicine."
Although the work of a retail pharmacist is almost the same, everything about researching, manufacturing and handling drugs is different today, he said.
Pharmacists in the late 19th century made prescription drugs by
hand, mostly from natural materials, and using mortar and pestle, balance scales and pill cutters. The purity and strength of the simple medicines varied and were untested by any governmental agency.
Pharmacists have always been an important part of a community, Mossberg said. The job of a pharmacist is to talk to people to try to understand their problems.
"They are still respected," Mossberg said. "In terms of high public regard, the clergy and pharmacy are always number one and in Gallup polls.
"And who can you trust not to deliver a sermon back to you?"
Gene Martin, associate dean of pharmacy, said, "Opportunities in pharmacy are much broader now. When I graduated, almost everyone worked in retail pharmacy." Martin graduate 1995 from the University of Tennessee.
"There are opportunities now we didn't dream of — in hospital pharmacies as well as in industry," Martin said.
Mossberg said five percent of the graduates went directly to the industry, mostly to sales positions. Many of the 10 percent who continued to graduate school later went to the industry. About 20-30 percent found jobs at hospitals and the remainder worked in retail pharmacy.
smallest school at the University. It has 230 undergraduate students and 110 graduate students, taught by 32 faculty members.
There were 130 students and seven faculty members when Mossberg came to the school 19 years ago. The school is the only one in Kansas and now compares favorably with the 71 other schools in the country.
The pharmacy school is the
"For the last decade, in terms of number of people studying in graduate programs and the resources attracted by our faculty to support them, the school has been considered first, second or third in comparison with other pharmacy schools," Mossberg said.
Mossberg said organizing the centennial celebration was a lot of work for his small staff.
"I wouldn't choose to run centennial celebrations for a living," he said. "I've never done it before and I'm sure it would be a smoother operation if we got to do it again next year, but we don't."
Mossberg said he expected 200-240 people to attend the events, which begin today and run through Saturday.
Donald Brodie, professor emeritus of pharmacy from the University of Southern California, will deliver the keynote address, "Anticipating the Second Century," at 8:00 tonight in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The lecture will be followed
by a reception at Adams Alumni Center.
Tomorrow, there will be two pharmacy seminars, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The Centennial Ball, including a reception, dinner and dance, will be tomorrow
night at the Holiday Inn Holidome 200 MacDonald Drive.
Before the football game Saturday, there will be an open house at Malott Hall, followed by class reunions and a brunch.
For more information, call the school at 864-3591.
University of Arizona
The KU School of Pharmacy was 10 years old in 1895, when this photograph
was taken. Today it celebrates its 100th anniversary.
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