Pharmacy Time Capsules

2009 (Third Quarter)

1984—Twenty-five years ago:

• National Patient Counseling Competition for student pharmacists inaugurated.
• George C. Glenner discovered that a principal component of the plaque in the brains of Alzheimer patients was a peptide, now termed beta-amyloid peptide.

1959—Fifty years ago

• The independent Southern School of Pharmacy merged with Mercer University.
• All state boards but one require an applicant for registration to have completed one year of practical experience. 

1934—Seventy-five year ago

• Arizona, Delaware, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Vermont did not require graduate forma college of pharmacy as a prerequisite to take the board of pharmacy licensing exam 
• Annual dues for membership in the Conference of Pharmaceutical Association Secretaries was $5.00  

1909—One hundred years ago

• Most states pay pharmacy board members $5 per day plus actual expenses
• Centennial of the birth of Charles Darwin.

By: Dennis B. Worthen  Lloyd Scholar, Lloyd Library and Museum, Cincinnati, OH

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