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Hands-on Care in the Communityrmed with shovels and sterile gloves, more than 300 St. Louis College of

Pharmacy students, faculty, staff, and alumni spread across the region on Sept. 15 for the annual STLCOP C.A.R.E.S. (Community Awareness Reaching Everyone in St. Louis) event.

Each year, the Student Pharma-cists Association (SPA) organizes the day of community service at a variety of community organiza-tions, including Gateway Greening and Operation Brightside, to help landscape and clean up areas around the city. Students also volunteered their time at a number of social service agencies. Students in the professional years worked at a number of community pharmacies educating patients on immunizations, checking blood pressure, and emphasizing ways seniors can prevent falls.

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In Their ShoesAnne Fadiman, author of the National Book Critic’s Circle Award-winning The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down talks with Script during her visit to campus for the culmination of the summer reading program.

Sheila Haar Siegel

The Separate ParallelJustin Patteron is 18 and in his first year at STLCOP. His mom was about his age when she transferred here in 1997. He’s trying to follow in his mother’s footsteps. But it’s hard because he’s had to do that without her since 1998.

Sheila Haar Siegel

Urban LegendsWe’ve pulled together some of the College’s tallest tales—from the haunting of Whelpley Hall to the STLCOP connection to Listerine—to find out what morsels are true, what has been misconstrued, and what is simply a myth.

Greg Katski

Just One ThingThe singular ways pharmacists are changing practice. Here, we look at settings in nuclear pharmacy, health system pharmacies, and even remote pharmacies.

Maureen Harmon

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2 News Briefs

14 Profile: Caleb Barnes, head tennis coach

20 Feature: From Bench to Bedside

22 Alumni Profile: Louis Schlaefer ’72

26 Alumni News

30 Class Notes

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Familiar Faculty Faces Follow-up

In the summer issue of Script, we featured some familiar faculty faces on the inside back cover. After the issue arrived in mailboxes, several people wrote in with their memories of these faculty members and others. Read their stories below to learn more about life lessons taught in the classroom and professors going above and beyond.

“My father, Al Kracht, was the comptroller at the College for years. I’ll always remember my dad regaling us with the tales and practical jokes of his fishing trips with Joe Haberle, Taylor Lindhorst, and others. All of the other faces were familiar as well. It brought back

many memories of dear old friends.”

Allison Brown, Executive Assistant to the President,

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

“In Dr. Byron Barnes’ class, our group project was to see how feeding cheese to mice would react with tranylcypromine (the antidepressant Parnate). Sadly the mice did not make it, and disappointment was great. I will never forget Dr. Barnes comparing my disappointment

to scientists who spend years on a research project, only to be disappointed or to have someone else publish before them. This stuck with me over the years. Dr. Barnes taught me a great lesson—disappointment is strictly a learning experience, and we can achieve positive goals from that experience.”

Alan Jay Schneider ’66, Retired, Executive Recruiter,

Target Corporation

“Arthur Zimmer was my first contact with the College, and he paved my path on many occasions. James Thayer gave me a part-time job in the chemistry lab, and he talked the owner of the Old Orchard Pharmacy in Webster Groves into giving me a job to fulfill my

one-year qualification for practical experience —even though they didn’t need another pharmacist. Another favorite professor was Frank Mercer. His exams were murder, but they helped with my all-around education.”

Bill Small ’56, Retired, Osco Drug

News Briefs

For the first time, St. Louis College of Pharmacy has been named a “Great College to Work For” by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

“On behalf of everyone at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, it is an honor to receive this prestigious designation,” said College President John A. Pieper, Pharm.D. “Our faculty and staff work tirelessly to ensure our graduates become strong pharmacy leaders who make a positive impact on the lives of patients and in the community. It’s wonderful to see the College’s commitment to our faculty and staff, and their commitment to the College, recognized nationally.”

The results, released in the Chronicle’s fifth annual report “The Academic Workplace,” are based on a survey of more than 46,000 employees at 294 colleges and universities nationwide.

The College was recognized for its fairness of compensation and the ability of its benefits to meet the needs of employees. The College works diligently to recruit and retain the best faculty and staff available. Each year compensation and benefits are compared locally, state-wide, and nationally in the public and private sector.

Great Colleges to Work For is one of the largest and most respected higher education workplace-recognition programs in the country. For more information and to view all the results of the survey, visit the Chronicle’s Web site at chronicle.com/academicworkplace.

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To make an impact around the world and to train students to be well-rounded, global pharmacists, STLCOP recently created the Office of International Programs. The office, officially established in August, currently offers one course, International Service Learning. The class will travel to Guatemala for two weeks in early January to help build houses with Habitat for Humanity.

Recently, Ken Schafermeyer, Ph.D., the newly named director of inter-national programs and professor of pharmacy administration, took two students on an advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) rotation to Swaziland, Africa, in May as one of the program’s inaugural initiatives. During their stay, the group helped establish a curriculum for a two-year pharmacy assistant program at Southern Africa Nazarene University.

Stressing the importance of long-term commitments, Schafermeyer

plans to avoid one-shot medical missions to temporary clinics. “Many patients need continuity of care rather than episodic care,” he said.

He plans to return to Swaziland in the spring to follow up on the pharmacy assistant program at Southern Africa Nazarene University. Plans are in place to add several more courses and APPE rotations, as well as extracur-ricular international service learning experiences, study abroad programs, and student exchange programs.

Currently, a student and faculty exchange program is being estab-lished with Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Mexico (UANL). In the spring 2013 semester, the College will also welcome four exchange students from Saudi Arabia.

STLCOP will undergo a comprehensive evaluation visit by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) on Feb. 18-20, 2014, by a team representing ACPE. The team will review the College’s ongoing ability to meet ACPE’s criteria for accreditation.

Prior to the ACPE onsite visit, the College will be conducting a comprehensive self-study that includes assessment of various aspects of the College such as the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum, the College mission and strategic plan, physical facilities, and financial resources. The self-study process is critical to the continued quality and success of the academic program at STLCOP, and we are asking for alumni input and feedback on your alma mater in these specific areas.

Please submit comments or feedback regarding the College to ACPE@stlcop.edu at any time. Comments must address substantive matters related to the quality of the College and its academic program. Comments must be in writing and cannot be treated as confidential.

Sixth-year students Katie Conklen (left) and Belma Muhamerovic with Ken Schaefermeyer, Ph.D. ’76, director of international programs, in Swaziland.

Global Perspective St. Louis College of Pharmacy is integrating international experiences into the curriculum to expose students to diverse opportunities.

Katie Conklen’s sixth-year rotation took her to Swaziland to help establish a curriculum for a pharmacy assistant program at Southern Africa Nazarene University—and to experience the culture of the small African country.

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Anne Fadiman, author of the National Book Critic’s Circle Award-winning book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and the Francis Writer in Residence at Yale University, visited STLCOP on Sept. 4 for a liberal arts convocation. As part of the College’s new summer reading program, 250 first-year students read The Spirit before arriving at STLCOP this fall, and then discussed the book with faculty, staff, and student leaders at the beginning of the fall semester.

Fadiman’s book traces the trials of a Hmong child with epilepsy and her family, and has been widely read by health care professionals as a case study for providing culturally sensitive and effective care to patients.

Three days before the culmination of the summer reading program and Fadiman’s presentation at STLCOP, Lia Lee, the main character in The Spirit, died at the age of 30—defying physicians who thought she would live only a few years following her neurological crisis at the age of 4 in 1986. This is Fadiman’s first interview since Lia’s passing.

You mentioned in the afterword of the latest edition of The Spirit Catches You and Fall Down that the first question people still ask you is “Is Lia still alive?” So have you been hearing from a lot of readers since Friday?

No, because it hasn’t yet been publicized, although I think word will get out. I imagine that it will be covered by the Lee family’s local paper, the Sacramento Bee. Interestingly, some of Lia’s siblings in the past haven’t wanted me to mention publicly that the Lees now live in Sacramento, because they wanted privacy for the family and didn’t want to be called by reporters. But now they, in fact, want their local paper to come to the funeral because they want the importance of Lia’s life to be publicly honored.

In The Spirit, you mention the tradition of Hmong funerals last-ing three days, three nights, and including an offer of animal sacrifice. So, spiritually, what does Lia’s passing mean to her family and the Hmong culture?

Well, they certainly believe that she is truly dead. The fact that she was so profoundly disabled and so difficult to care for doesn’t mean that her death is any less sad. In fact, in some ways, it is almost more sad. She was really the fulcrum around which the family revolved. Someone whose importance everyone could agree on. So, at the funeral, there will be a variety of rituals. There will be animal sacrifices that will probably not take place right there, not within city limits. But if it is like Lia’s father’s funeral, perhaps at least one animal will be brought there and then taken else-where to be sacrificed. The animals will all be eaten. There will be feasting on those animals. Lia’s soul will be guided by a shaman back through her life, back to her birth. And there will be music. There will be a death drum. The only Hmong funeral I’ve been to is Nao Kao’s (Lia’s father), so I’ll see whether the funeral for a young person is different. I’m still learning about Hmong culture.

You also mention in the latest afterword of the book that you’re content to sit back and listen and let others write. You specifically talk about not being an expert on Hmong culture…

Which I never was.

…but instead about communication and miscommunication.That’s right.

In the afterword, you mention that “my culture is dry. We do not know how to mourn.” So do you mourn differently now, now that you’ve come to understand the Hmong culture?

Yes. And not just mourn, but live. I think I have been a different kind of mother because of watching how Foua (Lia’s mother) raised her children. I certainly have felt that in a variety of ways at all the important milestones of living—with birth and death being, of course, the crucial bookends in anyone’s life—that my own culture is somewhat short on emotion and emotional and spiritual expression. And every time I see how these things are handled in Hmong culture, I learn a few more lessons on how to live.

You’ve known the Lee family for 23 years…Yes, I first met them in the spring of 1988.

In what ways have Lia and her family truly changed your life, fundamentally? What values have you gleaned?

That Americans don’t rely enough on extended family. They raise their children alone. Often, parents live thousands of miles away. They’re learning how to take care of their babies by reading a book rather than having taken care of their younger siblings. A certain irony lies therein since the Lees were legally declared child abusers by the American legal system, so Lia could be removed from her family and put in a foster home to be given her meds. The book turns on the fact that, for a variety of complicated reasons, Lia’s parent’s did not give her anticonvulsant meds exactly as prescribed.

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One very obvious thing that I learned from the Lee family and other Hmong families was the importance of involving the older generation. As a result, I made sure my two children (now 23 and 17) visited my parents as often as possible while they were alive, and I joined my husband in urging his parents to move from their home two hours away to a retirement community less than 20 minutes away from us. I could see from Lia’s family how incredibly important it was to have grandparents around. Nao Kao and Foua were grandparents and becoming grandparents of more children during the years that I knew them. And I can’t imagine what life would have been like for those grandchildren without their presence. I think the sense of the interdependence of the Hmong community, as with so many problems, are solved within the community. When people are in trouble in the Hmong community, everyone chips in. And that has been a very important lesson.

I think also that I wasn’t a religious person when I began the project, and I’m not now, but I think I have a far greater respect for the importance of spirituality in the lives of those who are religious. The spiritual life of the Lees and other Hmong families that I know is at the center of the universe. And I’ve also seen that my own rational way of thinking isn’t always the best way to solve problems. It’s still the first way that I turn to, but I have a far greater respect for other kinds of solutions that are more spiritual, emotional, or intuitive. And I now can see that there are a number of problems in life that simply cannot be solved rationally.

You’ve said that if you were starting from scratch today, you wouldn’t write the book because you couldn’t, that it was possible back then to read everything about Hmong culture, and now there’s so much out there. Do you think the book sparked that mushrooming interest in Hmong culture?

No, I think it was just one of many, many contributing factors. I couldn’t write the book because I couldn’t master everything that I would need to know. But there are two other reasons that I wouldn’t choose to write it if I were starting now.

One is that Hmong culture is so heterogeneous now that it can’t be pinned down in the same way. You can’t begin a sentence with “The Hmong are” in the way that you could when I was writing about Hmong culture of the 80s. And although the book was published in 1997, I first met the family in 1988 and did a lot of my reporting then, but we have to remember that the book is during the timeframe of 1980 to 1986. That is, the Lees came to the United States in 1980. Lia was born in ’82, and her neurological crisis was in ’86. And the Hmong were a fairly homogeneous group at that time, but they aren’t now. So you would have to indulge in unjust and inaccurate stereotyping if you were to try to pin down Hmong culture today, in 2012.

The other reason that I would not write the book now is that there are some really terrific young Hmong writers. They

can tell their own story. They don’t need me. So I never felt that I was speaking for the Hmong. The Hmong could always speak for themselves. But back then, they would often be speaking in Hmong. I don’t ever think that one can speak for another person. However, back then, this was one of a small number of books for a popular audience rather than an academic audi-ence about Hmong culture. But I’d much rather watch from the sidelines and let the Hmong speak about their own culture now.

Your book has been required reading for first-year Yale medical students for many years.

Yes, I just spoke to them last week for the 15th time.

Did you ever imagine that The Spirit would become required reading for health care professionals and be found in the medical sections of bookstores?

That never occurred to me. I thought it would be read by about 17 people. And judging by the size of my advance, my publisher thought so too.

But your intent was never for it to be a medical book or something health profes-sionals would use.

No. It had started off as a story for the New Yorker, although it wasn’t published there. So this has all come as a complete and wonderful surprise. That is, I should say what’s come as a surprise is that a lot of people have read it, but what the really wonderful surprise is that it has actually had some in-fluence. That had not occurred to me, the fact that it’s actually changed how medi-cine is taught and how people deal with patients in some hospitals. That just never would have occurred to me in a million years. It’s the only thing I’ve ever written that has actually caused useful changes. So even if I never write anything else in my life that’s in that category, I will feel that I actually did something useful, that Lia did something useful because she’s the centerpiece of the book. Lia was a valuable person, and even though she was unable to speak during most of her life, she had a great deal to say about

cross-cultural communication, family relationships, and many other topics. I was privileged to have the chance to convey some of those things. I never could have written a word of it had it not been for her compelling story and for the generosity of her parents and her doctors in opening up their lives to me.

I understand you are a breast cancer survivor. How has your own experience with illness affected your perception of health care, and how empathy and understanding are so critical to care?

I think it’s sort of the other direction. It’s more that my experience doing this book affected my experience when I was being treated for breast cancer in 2007. That is, before I did this book, I would have selected doctors entirely on the basis of their reputations for clinical skills and I would have felt that empathy and communication skills were low priorities—soft qualities that might be nice but were in no way critical. After this book, they were essential. I simply will not choose a doctor for myself or my children unless I feel confident that the doctor will treat us like whole people. I had to choose an awful lot of doctors during the breast cancer phase, and I needed to feel that those doctors thought of me as an entire person, and not just a cancerous breast.

And did you have any interaction with pharmacists during that time?

Yes, I have just finished five years of tamoxifen and am about to start on five years of aromatase inhibitors, so I certainly feel that the meds that I’ve taken have been a crucial part of my experience with cancer. Those phases have gone on a lot longer than the much briefer phases of surgery and radiation. And pharmacy was even more important in Lia’s case.

The center of Lia’s story was the fact that her parents did not give her meds exactly as prescribed. That led to a couple of results. One was that Lia was taken away from her family for about a year and put in foster care. And the other is that possibly some of her difficulties were caused by the fact that her parents had not given her meds. And both the meds themselves and the various attitudes toward them are the absolute hub of the story. At that time, many of the anticonvulsants came only in adult form even though there were many children who had epilepsy. The Lees had to cut up bitter tasting pills and then grind them up and mix them with applesauce. Also the family could not read prescriptions. They could not read in any language and could not speak English.

Good communication with a pharmacist could have made an absolutely huge difference. I think we do not know what would have happened to Lia had the instructions been clearer; had the prescriptions been changed less frequently; and had the drugs been easier to administer, more pleasant to taste, and with fewer side effects. It’s possible that Lia had a very problematic seizure disorder that would have been

refractory no matter what. But that diagnosis was tentative and made right before her neurological crisis, after which she stopped having seizures so we don’t really know. It’s possible that had the pharmaceutical aspects been different, she might still be alive—perhaps with some cognitive issues—but still a functioning adult. So, yes, pharmacy has been important in my own life, but far more important in Lia’s.

What have you seen that health care practitioners are getting right, and what mistakes and failures did they make?

People are getting more things right now than they were during Lia’s era. The bad changes come from the problems caused by managed care. There’s far more paperwork and bureau-cratic complications. HIPAA privacy regulations are, on the face of it, very good. There wasn’t enough protection of patient privacy in the old days. But they too have added layers of complex paper-work and bureaucracy. So I think more time goes to bureaucratic details and less time to patients. But perhaps in contrast to that, there has been this new move that has affected every aspect of medical care for physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, and that is a greater emphasis on empathy and patient-centered care.

Heath care is constantly evolving in the U.S., but it’s not very nimble for a lot of the reasons we just talked about. Do you think it’s possible to truly affect people’s health by integrating the best ideas, wisdom, and scientific evidence across different cultures?

Yes, but not with ease. Let’s look specifically at Hmong culture because that’s what I know, or at least somewhat. Again, I’m hardly an expert. I don’t go to a Hmong shaman when I’m sick. I don’t take my children to a Hmong shaman. I go to a well-educated American doctor. However, I think that doctors have something to learn from Hmong shamans. Hmong shamans make house calls, and I think that’s one of the things that was completely missing from the interactions that Lia’s doctors had—never seeing the family on their own turf, but only in the hospital, which was an intimidating place for the family.

When a shaman comes, he comes to your house. He spends the whole day. He lavishes love and care on you. All your family members are around to participate in the healing ceremony. And it’s not that I expect doctors to make house calls all the time. But knowing the patient well and seeing them as a member of their entire family and community—rather than just as an anonymous sick person in a hospital—makes a huge difference.

A suggestion was made by a faculty member at Yale Medical School that, on the top of everybody’s chart, whether it’s a hard copy or an electronic chart, should be a photograph of the patient fully dressed with at least one other person in the frame. So every time anyone who interacted with the patient picked up the chart, there would be a small reminder that this is not just a stroke victim in the hospital. This is a complete person who has a family and a life outside this hospital.

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seek, shapes in the clouds. Gentle waves pushing against you as your toes stretched

toward the sky, swinging nearer and nearer to the tips of curled leaves. The scares of lightning flashes and thunderous roars giving way to the magic of twinkling first stars or splashing in rain-puddled roads.

You might not be able to draw up a single word of the song your mother sang to you at bedtime as a child. Yet you remember how you watched her get ready in the mornings, staying as close to her as obtrusively possible. And you knew you missed her when she was gone; it was heartache until she returned. At

3, the color of her eyes was nearly undistinguishable, and you probably brushed away how her kisses felt on your skin. She was a feeling, mute and distant. But she was comfort, home, and peaceful silence—an exhale from the freedom of joyous play.

Justin barely remembers what his mom was like. He doesn’t remember ever saying goodbye to her. But he remembers look-ing for his mom and never finding her.

She had left her apartment on a Friday night in April and drove one block from Tay-lor Ave. to Lindell Blvd. in the Central West End. Her black Honda Accord was struck by a patrol car, driven by a city of St. Louis police officer. Tracy Patterson died two days later, on Easter Sunday, at Barnes Hospital. She was 23. A rib had punctured her lung; most of the bones on her left side were broken.

She had been heading home to Bridgeton, Mo., to take Justin to an egg hunt.

Tracy was 19 when she had Justin, living with her parents and trying to decide on a college major. She eventually transferred from the University of Missouri-St. Louis to STLCOP, and was a second-year student at the College when the accident happened in 1998. A single parent, she was determined to choose a good profession that would provide for Justin and her. She had settled in easily at the College, making friends and joining Kappa Epsilon fraternity. She lived the rush of life to capacity, finite though it was.

Everything Justin remembers about his mother he has siphoned from others, at family reunions or from random people he’s run into over the years. He saw his dad, who was finishing up the physical therapy program at Saint Louis University, every so often after his mom died. After the accident, Justin was raised by his grandparents and, for the most part, what he knows about his mom is what he has learned from her mother.

“While I got my strength from my grandparents,” Justin says, “I got my determination from my mom.”

Early on, Justin tried to outlast his grandma, Connie, with the kind of endless questions 3-year-olds never seem to let go of—the whys, the wheres, the whats. Yet explaining what happened, where his mom went, and why she wasn’t coming back would be more than most grandmothers who just lost their only daughter could bear to tell their grandson. Though as mothers and fathers do, they somehow forget themselves to do what’s best for their kids—and grandkids.

“I can remember looking everywhere for my mom and calling to her,” Justin recalls. “My grandma and grandpa sat me down and showed me a sad video about a baby dinosaur whose mother died. They told me that my mom was in an accident and died and went to heaven. I just remember thinking that that was okay as long as she didn’t stay too long.”

The accident that led to his mother’s death was kept from Justin for a couple of years, mainly to protect him from the truth of the dubious circumstances surrounding it. Justin’s grandparents had filed a wrongful

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TRANSFERRED HERE IN 1997. HE’S TRYING TO FOLLOW IN HIS MOTHER’S FOOTSTEPS.

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death claim against the St. Louis City Police Department, citing that the police officer who struck her had flown through the intersec-tion at a high rate of speed with no lights flashing or siren sounding, and not in pursuit. Eventually, Justin’s grandfather let him read some of the details of the court case files.

“During the trial, terrible injustices were discovered, such as witnesses that were nowhere to be found, and the fact that the police officer didn’t get so much as a slap on the wrist,” Justin explains. “The police officer that killed my mom had his blood drawn at the police station instead of at Barnes Hospi-tal, so it remained a mystery as to whether he was drinking or not that dreadful night.”

Justin’s grandparents lost the case and their daughter and, as diligently caring as they were, they didn’t really know how Justin would fare. He struggled, here and there, after switching schools to be in the district where his grandmother was teach-ing eighth-grade English. As is very often the case in childhood, somewhere between the ages of 7 and 11, friendships naturally ebbed and flowed. But most kids have their mom or dad to talk to when friends come and go, as they grow older and their uni-verse expands; Justin had his grandma.

“Every so often, she would come in my room while I was crying, and she would comfort me,” Justin says. “I didn’t spend all day crying about it, but there were moments when I was sitting there doing nothing, and I would think about it, and it just crushed me. I did fine in school. I was just drained, emotionally.”

During his junior year of high school, he finally made peace with what happened. But by then Justin had already made up his mind: he was going to be a pharmacist like his mom.

In the months after Tracy died, Justin’s grandmother commissioned a memorial bench for her daughter on the STLCOP campus, and cared for 100 caterpillars until they hatched for a butterfly release in her honor. She and Kappa Epsilon started the Tracy Patterson Memorial Scholarship, given each year to a single parent attending STLCOP.

Justin can’t remember the first time he brought flowers to his mom’s bench, but one year, during seventh grade, he sat on the bench and realized that he wanted to finish what she couldn’t. His aptitude for science and math, which he got from his mom, is what got him into STLCOP. But losing his mom is why he’s here today, in the same place, around the same age as she was when she was at the College. He can see her bench from his third-floor room in the Residence Hall. He walks by it every day and still thinks about her all the time. But everything’s changed. The odd convergence of life transitions has made him a dutiful son beyond comprehension.

“I feel like I would be totally different if she were still here,” he says. “I don’t think I would want to be a pharm…well, that’s not true. I might still want to be a pharmacist, but I don’t think I would be the person I am. I’d just be differ-ent. Maybe it wasn’t meant to be, but maybe...maybe it’s just that good stuff came out of it. I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wouldn’t have happened. And I feel like I really like who I am.”

Fourteen years after his mom was here, Justin, a first-year pharmacy student, is picking up where she left off. He’s picking up her passion and interests, and making them his own.

It’s unspoken, but he’s living for someone else. He hasn’t forgotten.

“I DON’T THINK I WOULD WANT TO BE A PHARM…WELL, THAT’S NOT TRUE. I MIGHT STILL WANT TO BE A PHARMACIST, BUT I DON’T THINK I WOULD BE THE PERSON I AM.

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the College found itself on the outskirts of town and in the middle of the city’s shoe manufacturing district. When Jones Hall was constructed in 1927, it was built to mimic the neighboring shoe factories in case the College failed and the building had to be sold.

First female graduateAccording to History of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy by John P. Winkelmann, the first woman to graduate from St. Louis College of Pharmacy was Esther Wightman in 1883. MYTH

Wightman was the first female matriculated, but the College has no evidence that she actually graduated because she is listed in the junior class of 1884-85 but not in any subsequent class. According to College records, Augusta A. Bock was the first woman to graduate from the College on March 23, 1892.

Stain fighterJohn Rapko, Ph.D., adjunct instructor at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, invented Tide laundry detergent. MYTH

David “Dick” Byerly is the patent holder for Tide laundry detergent. Rapko does hold the patent for “salts of tetrahydrofuran polycarboxylic acids as detergent builders,” which was bought by Procter & Gamble in 1975. As Rapko tells it, the federal government had outlawed the production of phosphorous in detergent due to its negative effect on the environment. Rapko worked for a number of years at Monsanto trying to find a chemical replacement for phosphorous in laundry detergent and discovered “tetrahydrofuran polycarboxylic acid,” a new composition of matter. Unfortunately, the composition was expensive to produce and not biodegradable. Therefore, it was never actually used as a replacement for phosphorous.

The rooftop poolThere is a pool on the roof of Residence Hall. MYTH

When St. Louis College of Pharmacy purchased the former Rabe Hall, which was located at 4520 Forest Park Ave., there was a pool in the courtyard. The

Lambert Pharmacal Company (which later became Warner Lambert), and is currently manufactured and distributed by Johnson & Johnson. Dr. Reddish served as chief bacteriologist in the Lambert-Hudnut Division of Warner Lambert Pharmaceutical Co. while he was a professor of bacteriology at the College in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.

Jones Hall, shoe factoryThe College’s Jones Hall was built to look like a shoe factory, just in case this whole pharmacy thing didn’t work out. FACT

When St. Louis College of Pharmacy moved from the hustle and bustle of downtown St. Louis to its current and eighth location at 4588 Parkview Place in 1927,

No, really, we’re not Wash. U. St. Louis College of Pharmacy is part of Saint Louis University or Washington University School of Medicine . MYTH

St. Louis College of Pharmacy is one of the few wholly independent, private colleges of pharmacy in the country.

Mr. ListerineThe late Dr. George Reddish, professor of bacteriology at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, invented Listerine. MYTH

Listerine was first formulated as a surgical antiseptic by Dr. Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Wheat Lambert in St. Louis in 1879. It was originally marketed by the

Urban Legends BY GREG KATSKI

St. Louis College of Pharmacy was founded in 1864 by the likes of Henry Shaw, William Clark’s nephew, and several other famous St. Louisans.

This much is true.

But since then, copious numbers of prolific minds—positioned atop their hallowed white coats—have blown the spark of myths, legends, and morsels of non-history that, at the very least, speak to students’ and alumni’s limitless imagination. What else could be the explanation for how such notions get started?

Here are some of STLCOP’s tallest tales and whether or not they hold water.

building had been a private apartment complex before it was purchased by the College. Within a year of buying the property, the College had closed the pool.

Home plate addressSt. Louis College of Pharmacy used to be located where home plate now sits at the new Busch Stadium. MYTH

The first location of St. Louis College of Pharmacy was on the fourth floor of the St. Louis Medical College, which was situated at the intersection of Seventh Street and Clark Avenue, located near Busch Stadium’s left field concourse.

The haunted hall Whelpley Hall is haunted by its namesake. Some claim that if you study his painted portrait from one end of the lobby to the other, his haunting eyes will follow you. UNKNOWN

Henry Milton Whelpley is one of St. Louis College of Pharmacy’s most revered historical figures. An alumnus, he served as the sixth dean of the College for 22 years from 1904 until his death on June 26, 1926. Unlike other STLCOP legends which may have sprouted from some minutia of truth, this one can be traced to no one.

The World’s Fair changed our course(s)STLCOP course times and structure were altered by the 1904 World’s Fair. FACT

Long before becoming dean of St. Louis College of Pharmacy in the fall of 1904, Henry Milton Whelpley had been a strong proponent of switching from part-time classes at night to full-time, day courses. With the World’s Fair being held from April 30 through Nov. 30, Whelpley had even more incentive to move classes, considering that everyone ventured to Forest Park at night to avoid the sweltering heat of the humid summer days. Lecture courses were to be held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and lab classes were to be held on Tuesday and Thursday. These basic class scheduling changes have stayed the same since that time.

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Coach Caleb Barnes is on the court guiding the St. Louis College of Pharmacy women’s tennis team through another tough practice.

The sun is beating down on the players. This is Barnes’ second season as head coach of Eutectic tennis. He’ll be leading the men’s team in the spring and is also in charge of the College’s intramural program.

Barnes grew up on the tennis courts of South Carolina. While earning a degree in physical education, he was captain of his team at Erskine College. His most recent job before joining St. Louis College of Pharmacy was at Brookstone Meadows Tennis in Anderson, S.C.

HOW DID YOU GET INTO COACHING?

I met a great coach when I was about 13. At the time, my family was going through some hard times, and I could only take a lesson about every other week. It got to the point when my family couldn’t afford the lessons. The coach was great, and he said he wanted to train me. I don’t know what he saw in me, but he said he would train me if I would string rackets for him. I just started stringing everything in sight and training with him as much as I could. He also taught me how to teach and how to develop tennis players. By the time I was 15, I started teaching tennis. I taught as much as I could every summer. I’d teach four or five hours a day. That made me really love teaching.

DESCRIBE HOW YOU ENDED UP AT ST. LOUIS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.

I just happened to be searching at the right time, and this job popped up. I have plenty of tennis experience, and I have also worked with intramurals. My sophomore, junior, and senior year, I ran the intramural program at Erskine College. I thought ‘My background is perfect, and I have to apply for it.’ And then it happened quickly from there. ARE THERE UNIQUE CHALLENGES COACHING AT STLCOP?

I was the only player on my college team that was not pre-med. And so I really learned a lot about dealing with pre-med students. And they weren’t just pre-med students. They had to be 4.0 pre-med students. They were really smart and hardworking. They played tennis, they did their schoolwork, and that was their life. And they were all from different parts of the world. I really learned how to deal with those dynamics, and to understand where they were coming from. The pharmacy program here is not an easy thing, but I think my background gives me a little understanding of what the students are going through.

WHAT MOMENT STICKS OUT IN YOUR MIND FROM THE INAUGURAL SEASON OF EUTECTIC TENNIS?

At the end of the men’s season, we were just one point away from clinching fourth place in the conference. It was one of the most intense tennis matches I’ve ever been a part of. And the worst thing is, I wasn’t playing. I was sitting on the sidelines with knots in my stomach. On top of that, I had to keep myself calm and composed for the team. I had that knot for the rest of the day. Afterward, my wife, Kateryna, told me to not internalize it so much.

KATERYNA IS ALSO YOUR ASSISTANT COACH?

She is. We make a great team. Since we’ve been together, she’s been immersed into the world of tennis and watched every one of my college matches. She also loves running and fitness. She’s been able to bring the two worlds together to start doing a sport-specific training program for the teams. That’s where she’s absolutely invaluable to me because, growing up, I never worked out. I would play five, six hours of tennis on the court easily. But when you ask me to run a mile, I would struggle to finish. WOULD YOU RECOMMEND EVERYONE WORK WITH THEIR SPOUSE?

It’s not for everyone, but we work together really well when we’re in coaching mode. We take on two different roles though. I’m kind of the serious, intense one on the sidelines. She plays it cool in front of the team. But what the players don’t know is that Kateryna is much more intense than I am, but she doesn’t show it. She’s great at downplaying that intensity.

WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS FOR THIS YEAR?

We want to finish in the top half of the conference. However, our big goal is team bonding and unity. We could lose every match, but if we come out and give 110 percent effort every time that we’re out there, that will be a big accomplishment. We also want the team to work together on and off the court. We have nine men on the team and eight women. That makes road trips a great

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time for bonding and camaraderie. Both Kateryna and I really enjoyed that about our college experiences. I’d say our proudest moment of last year was just seeing how the teams worked together on the road, and then when we’d come back, they’d just want to keep hanging out. We had players tell us that the biggest disappointment of the year was when the season was over. They couldn’t wait to come back and play this year.

WHAT LESSONS HAVE YOU LEARNED OVER THE PAST YEAR?

Coaching and developing players is the easy part for me. I can go out on court, not necessarily have a game plan in my head, and just put together a full practice set. The more difficult part of the program is trying to build relationships with the students so they have that full trust in you, and you can trust them. The hardest thing to do is to create that connection. I think we are well on the way with both the men’s and women’s program.

PART OF YOUR JOB INVOLVES RUNNING THE INTRAMURAL PROGRAM. WHAT WERE YOUR EXPECTATIONS COMING IN?

I thought I’d set up some rules and provide some structure. Football, volleyball, and basketball are all very popular with the students. They don’t necessarily fully want that much structure

on the program. They want enough structure where it’s safe and they feel like they’re in a good environment. I’m using a new program this year which is Internet-based. It’s like a sports Facebook. It runs everything. Players know the season dates, who’s winning games, and the scores. Players can check in and get as invested as they want. WHAT’S BEEN THE REACTION OF STUDENTS?

It’s really intense competition. The students want to use intramurals as an outlet to relieve stress. It might not be a varsity sport, but they’re going to play like it is. And when the game’s over, it’s over. And that’s a neat thing. The students here are absolutely phenomenal.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST ABOUT COACHING AT ST. LOUIS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY?

The best thing across the board is just how much student interaction I get. It’s a great place to work and hopefully make a positive impact on a student’s life. There is not a bad day here.

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Every time Sally Schwarz enters the lab, she must wear a radiation badge—a device

that detects how much radioactive exposure she’s had on any given workday. Unlike

pharmacists who practice in community pharmacies, Schwarz, director of clinical

PET radiopharmaceutical production at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR),

never comes in direct contact with the substances she works with. “Everything we do

is remote,” says Schwarz, who is also a research associate professor of radiology at

Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), where the MIR is housed.

It has to be.

The chemists and pharmacists that Schwarz manages spend their days in protective

clothing, using remote arms to work in hot cells—chambers made with 60-80 millimeters

of lead—manipulating radioactive materials. Schwarz and her team are working within

the very first field of specialty pharmacy—nuclear pharmacy.

Just One ThingThe singular ways pharmacists

are changing practice.BY MAUREEN HARMON

Nuclear pharmacy has been around since the 1960s, and Schwarz has been working in

the field since radiopharmaceuticals were first used in human studies at the University

of Chicago. After graduating from the University of Iowa in 1971 and earning her

master’s degree at the University of Southern California in 1976, she was torn between

the worlds of research and clinical nuclear medicine. After a mentor at WUSTL gave her

the opportunity to take on a position that would be part research, part clinical nuclear

pharmacy, she bit and has now spent nearly 40 years watching the field grow and change

as she’s moved up in its ranks.

When Schwarz started her career in nuclear medicine at Washington University, cancer

could be detected with CT scans or X-rays. But by the time doctors could see something

was wrong, the disease had been living—and killing—unheeded for some time. With the

birth of radiopharmacology, eventually came PET scans (the first scanner was developed

at WUSTL), which increased the ability to detect cancer on a cellular level—sometimes

before it has time to grow and metastasize.

An absurd oversimplification of what Schwarz and her team of specialists do is to say

they build the drugs that make PET scans possible, and they help develop clinical

research radiopharmaceuticals with oncologists, neurologists, cardiologists, and other

physicians. With the use of a device called a cyclotron, the team at the MIR creates

fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) or, as Schwarz calls it “radioactive sugar.” When FDG is

injected into a patient, it clings to cells within the body, since they all need glucose to

live. Cancer cells, it turns out, need more glucose than healthy cells, so FDG flocks to

areas with cancer. “Many types of cancer cells,” says Schwarz, “will concentrate FDG in

the primary tumor and the metastatic tissue.” Doctors can then analyze the PET scan,

looking for signs of cervical, lung, or breast cancer. With the use of PET drugs, they can

observe how the heart is functioning. “It’s very much like an X-ray,” says Schwarz, “but

what you see is not anatomy, it’s metabolism.” Fuse a PET scan and a CT scan, and

you get a complete picture of both anatomic location and metabolism. It’s a technology

developed and perfected by a relatively small group of specialists.

Schwarz, who is also in charge of regulatory oversight (a big job in a

place that requires radiation detection badges), is one of only a few

thousand nuclear pharmacists in the United States (there are only

417 nuclear pharmacies in the country, according to the Division of

Nuclear Pharmacy at Purdue University). They are an elite team of

pharmacists immersed in chemistry, and their numbers will likely

grow in the coming years as doctors and pharmacists learn more

about specific disease states—especially cancer—and

as technology improves. But they’re not the only ones

going through a growth spurt.

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For Marlin Weekley ’75, specialty pharmacy isn’t just about focusing on specific disease state or drugs; it means adapting to the times. It means doing it differently. It means Skyping.

Ever since he began his career in 1975, Weekley has always wanted to be at the forefront

of pharmacy as it adapts and changes with the times. “I always enjoyed doing the

next thing that came along,” he says. When a gentleman offered to sell him one of his

community pharmacies under the name Low Cost Pharmacy, Weekley bought it. And

then he kept buying. Today he owns five pharmacies, mainly practicing out of Metamora

Pharmacy, in Metamora, Ill., but that doesn’t mean he’s not present at other sites. When

the rules for the new Pharmacy Practices Act were adopted in 2010, it included changes

in the way pharmacies are licensed, provided provisions for direct patient care, and

allowed for three different telepharmacy options, including remote dispensing sites and

remote consultation sites. Within 30 days of the act passing, Weekley opened his first

consultation site in Earlville, Ill. Then he quickly opened two more. In the meantime,

other remote pharmacies were popping up all over the state.

Weekley saw the promise in remote consultation sites for both pharmacists and the

communities they serve. “[Communities] can have prescription service in a town that

couldn’t otherwise support a location and a full-time pharmacist in charge of a drug

inventory,” he says. As for the remote site and the pharmacist running it: “You’ll dispense

medications for lower overhead cost,” Weekley says.

He runs just one remote pharmacy now after selling those that were less profitable.

Johnson’s Drug Store in Wyoming, Ill., is a remote consultation site where prescriptions

are filled at the “home pharmacy”—Low Cost Pharmacy in Lacon, Ill.—and delivered to

a technician at Johnson’s. The remote site doesn’t maintain an inventory of medications

(save non-prescription and over-the-counter medications), and even though Weekley isn’t

on site, he or another pharmacist is still available when a patient drops by to pick up

her medication. Next to the registers at Johnson’s are computers, which allow patients

to contact a pharmacist with quick questions using technologies like Skype. If the

patient has questions or concerns that require a private consultation, Johnson’s offers

a private room, where a patient can don a pair of headphones and talk with the off-site

pharmacist. Patients were reluctant at first, says Weekley, who points out that some

preferred conversations that took place in-person. Still, he and his team persevered and

became proactive, often encouraging patients to give the technology a try or reaching

out and asking them to speak with the medical professionals about their care. Once they

did, he says, they continued to log in, and now Weekley has plenty of routine customers

who contact him and his pharmacists through Skype or by phone when they need a little

guidance.

In the 80s, HIV/AIDS was earning national headlines everywhere. When Daron Smith ’88 graduated from St. Louis College of Pharmacy, he quickly got a

job at Medicare Glaser Pharmacy. Many of the patients coming into his pharmacy were

HIV-positive, and treatment options then were no match for the newly discovered disease.

“I watched them die for years and could do nothing about it,” Smith says. “I thought, we

can fix this.” With hope, he watched the pharmacological progress in HIV/AIDS drugs and

treatments. “It was fascinating over the years to watch the drugs being developed.”

Today, Smith runs a health system pharmacy for Walgreens. Most of these pharmacies,

he points out, specialize in specific disease states like HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. Every

Walgreens geographical market has an HIV specialist, for example. Smith manages the

service area between Springfield, Mo., and Carbondale, Ill. That means he oversees

15 pharmacies, placed in areas with the highest HIV concentrations. He can answer

questions about everything from HIV drugs and treatments to billing paperwork specific

to the disease.

Some disease states, Smith says, really do need specialists. In the world of HIV, billing

is complex. Blood work is a constant. And the therapies are incredibly complicated

and patient-specific, so pharmacists working with Smith are not only dispensing

prescriptions, they’re also consulting with patients and working to keep them on their

medicines. (Medication adherence is a big issue with HIV: the average HIV patient who

adheres to his treatment plan today has a life expectancy just a few years fewer than

someone who is not HIV-positive.)

And then there’s the societal stigma that patients face. Most pharmacists who are

specializing in diseases like HIV and Hepatitis C undergo continuing education and

special certifications. Smith and other pharmacists who specialize in specific disease

states are also better versed when it comes to the ways in which health care reform

might alter their fields. Smith is closely watching how the health care debate might affect

reauthorization of the Ryan White CARE (Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency)

Act, a program funded by $2.1 billion in federal funds that provides care for eligible

patients at the state and local levels. Pharmacists, like Smith, want those funds to

remain intact. “People can’t afford HIV drugs,” Smith says. In St. Louis alone, there are

about 5,000 people diagnosed as HIV-positive—only half are in treatment. “If people

don’t take their medications, they’re not virally suppressed,” Smith says. “If they’re not

virally suppressed, they can spread the disease.” In Florida, he says, there’s an 18-month

wait-list for patients in need of financial help. Specialty pharmacists have the ability

to dedicate their careers to specific disease states and to research and lobby on their

patients’ behalf.

And that’s what it comes down to for Smith: the patient. It never escapes him that there

is a specific group of people that he has chosen to treat. Years ago, when he worked at a

general pharmacy, he wore a small pin everyday that revealed a red HIV ribbon, showing

his support of those who had been infected. When an HIV-positive woman once came to

the pharmacy to pick up her prescriptions, she spotted the ribbon and later told Smith,

“I knew you would be the pharmacist to help me.” Throughout the years, she has followed

him from job to job—15 locations in all.

Smith predicts that pharmacy will go the way of the medical world, with pharmacists

seeking out small areas of expertise in a large—and continually expanding—field. “I

think, in the future, you’re going to see a lot of specialty pharmacists,” he says. And his

reasoning is simple: “You can’t know everything.”

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Hunkered down in the intensive care unit at Barnes-Jewish Hospital for a research project, Alexis Bylina took on a dual role—part scientist, part detective. During the summer, the fifth-year student scrutinized 114 patients’ health records looking for clues. Again and again, she reviewed the records line by line. Her task: to determine whether the patients had developed sepsis while in the ICU or whether they were non-septic. [Sepsis is a life-threatening illness in which the body has a severe response to bacteria. It has a mortality rate of 30 percent.]

“I was validating a computer algorithm that had already examined the patients’ profiles to see if they had sepsis or not,” she says. “My job was to do the manual chart review to see if my results matched the computer’s findings.”

The research project was part of the summer TL1 Predoctoral Program at

the Clinical Research Training Center at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSTL). The program provides career development for medical, pharmacy, and allied health care students through course- work, mentored training, and research.

“Research is very tedious, and it’s very labor intensive,” Bylina says. “You have to have a passion for it.” That’s why she was drawn to the TL1 program. “It focuses on actually taking the lab benchwork and using it to help people,” she says.

The TL1 program consists of a rigorous and competitive selection process. Bylina, along with fifth-year student Amanda Hetland and fourth-year student Tyler Taylor, were all selected for the program.

“Alexis was chosen in particular because of her intrinsic abilities plus her high-level energy, self-motivation, and desire to include research in her future career,”

says Terry Seaton, Pharm.D., professor of pharmacy practice and associate division director for research at STLCOP.

Bylina worked closely with Seaton to choose a mentor and a research project. She was paired with Thomas C. Bailey, M.D., professor of medicine at WUSTL, who is researching sepsis in ICU patients.

“I jumped at the opportunity to study sepsis,” Bylina says. “It’s a very serious disease—a critical emergency. It’s exciting to me to be able to help with research that could predict when and if sepsis will occur, how serious it can be, and when initial antibiotic therapy should be started for the patient.”

Once Bailey agreed to be her preceptor, the two met with the entire research team, including Anne Drewry, M.D., instructor in anesthesiology at WUSTL, who worked closely with Bylina during the TL1

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program. “It was very intimidating at the beginning,” Bylina says. “All of these people were infectious disease specialists and anesthesiologists. I had to get over the fact that I was just a student. I had to learn a lot very quickly to be a valuable member of the team.”

The first part of the TL1 program consisted of coursework that would introduce Bylina to biostatistics and the computer system the research team used. “I was given the tools I needed, so that when I was actually working on the experiment with my mentors on a day-to-day basis I would have the necessary terminology and direction needed to be productive,” she says.

The goal of the study was to see if a computer algorithm could predict sepsis through the detection of subtle changes in body temperature patterns. “I found that 22 patients should have been excluded from the study because they had been admitted to the ICU with sepsis—meaning they didn’t develop the disease there,” she says.

Because of Bylina’s findings, the research team decided to put more stringent computer codes in the algorithm and run it again. A resident at the hospital will also be conducting manual chart reviews. “The team hopes to produce a clinical prediction rule, meaning if the patient was to present with some other disease state, the computer would pick up on the trend of sepsis,” Bylina says. “Then health care providers could treat the patient with antibiotics earlier, increasing the chance of survival.”

Bylina’s interest in health care began when she was in the seventh grade. Growing up in Chicago, she and her family helped care for her great-aunt who had developed Alzheimer’s disease. As Bylina watched her Aunt Harriet experience the devastating disease, she realized the importance of medication. “What let her maintain a good quality of life was the medication she took,” Bylina says. “That was my initial exposure to how medication can really benefit people. The experience made me want to truly understand drugs and how they work.”

Her quest for this knowledge led her to St. Louis College of Pharmacy. When Bylina first visited campus, she felt a sense of belonging. “When it’s rigorous, as pharmacy school is, you have to find an environment in which you’re comfortable studying and doing what you need to do to succeed. And St. Louis College of Pharmacy was the right fit for me,” she says.

Although Bylina is now finished with the TL1 program, she still has much to do. She’s creating an abstract of the work she did in the project and preparing for a poster presentation. In addition to her fifth-year classes, she maintains a hospital pharmacy job at SSM DePaul Health Center, is active in several on-campus programs such as Peer Academic Coaching, and performs in the College’s theater productions. She somehow manages to balance all of this with co-chairing Operation Heart—an American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists patient care project that goes into schools and teaches children about heart disease. “We do this without using big or scary words,” she says. “Hopefully the kids go back home, share what they’ve learned, and become little heart health advocates.”

After her sixth-year rotations, Bylina hopes to complete a residency and conduct more research. “I want to produce something that’s beneficial for the hospital and the patient,” she says. “The predoctoral program was such a positive experience; I got to interact with students and professionals across the health care spectrum,” she says. “In the future, I hope to work in a hospital that has similar teaching programs.”

No matter where she ends up, Bylina wants to be involved with clinical research. “After completing the TL1 program, I can understand why people dedicate their lives to research and go through the tedious process of writing grants and proposals and securing Institutional Review Board approvals. Conducting research that has a clinical application is incredibly satisfying.”

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“A person comes in with a leaky faucet: is it the stem that needs to be replaced, the rubber fittings? You have to diagnose the problem, recommend a solution and tell him how to do it.

“It’s labor intensive, but it’s the same set of values as being a pharmacist,” he adds.

Schlaefer says his time at St. Louis College of Pharmacy prepared him to be a successful entrepreneur. “Pharmacy school really provides you with a good background. The professors provide you with the problem-solving abilities you need,” he says. “I had the principles down on what I needed to do. I just had to get a skill set. That’s it.”

He entertained the idea of opening a hardware store in Lebanon and closing his pharmacy after the local hardware store closed in 1994. Schlaefer had a great knowledge of tools and hardware from a childhood spent working on the family farm and thought that could translate into a successful business.

In today’s economy, if you want to be a successful small-town

businessman, you have to be well-rounded. Just ask Louis Schlaefer ’72,

owner of Prescriptions Plus in Lebanon, Ill., a pharmacy that doubles

as a True Value Hardware store. “In a small town, you have to

be a little bit of everything to everybody,” Schlaefer says.“You can make a nice living practicing pharmacy, but the diversification that something like a hardware store provides is a big deal.”

His business also offers small engine repair and tool rentals and includes a garden center. Maybe that’s why its Web site claims “Lou’s Got it All.”

At first, the combination of a pharmacy and hardware store might seem like a strange business model. But Schlaefer says they require the same qualities as a business owner.

“A pharmacist has to listen to the patient —their complaints, their symptoms—and then he looks at the medication prescribed by the doctor. He has to look at the medi-cations that the patient’s already taking. And then he goes ahead and dispenses it,” he says, adding that running a hard-ware store is like being a pharmacist.

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Then his daughter, Michelle, who was in high school, told him that she wanted to go into the family business. So Schlaefer found a compromise. He would keep the pharmacy open, moving the business from main street to the intersection of Rt. 50 and Rt. 4, and would integrate a hardware store into the space.

It was a dream come true for Schlaefer. He’d be able to dispense medications alongside his daughter and start an exciting new business venture, all under the same roof. That is, until a car accident took his daughter’s life.

Schlaefer admits that he had a “hard time” in the days, weeks, months, and years that followed his daughter’s death. “I was so funky at the time,” he says, struggling to find the right words. “I was depressed; just not feeling right.”

But it also gave him a chance, an excuse to travel and learn different health care practices. “It really opened up a new part of my life,” he says. Over the next two years, Schlaefer traveled to more than a hundred health care seminars across the country. He brought what he learned on the road back to his business, integrating alternative health care into his pharmacy.

Schlaefer says he believes in integrative health care. He believes that health care providers should integrate both the allopathic method and alternative health care into their practices. “I think that we can take the best parts of both and use them together and have good outcomes,” he says.

As an example, Schlaefer mentions a quadriplegic that was having a recurring problem with urinary tract infections. The patient had been coming into his pharmacy every two to four weeks for two years for medicine. Eventually, Schlaefer suggested the individual try D-Mannose, a naturopathic remedy for a urinary tract infection. “[The individual has] been UTI free ever since,” he says.

Schlaefer says his foray into alternative health care might have started out as a way to keep him distracted from the tragedy that had struck his life, but it turned into a much more worthwhile endeavor. “It just kind of got me through it. Maybe it was just keeping me busy,”

he says. “It was a tough time, but I think it’s really what made me a good pharmacist. I knew I wanted to be a pharmacist again,” he adds.

Schlaefer was born and raised in Troy, Ill., and went to Triad High School. His parents were farmers, and he helped out around the farm starting at a young age. In eighth grade, Schlaefer’s school counselor asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. Schlaefer said “a pharmacist.” His counselor disagreed. “She said, ‘I think you should continue working on the farm,’” Schlaefer says with a chuckle.

Schlaefer was a model student in high school and got accepted into St. Louis College of Pharmacy. He recalls his college years fondly. “I enjoyed it immensely. Everything I have today I owe to STLCOP,” he says.

Two of the four mentors in his life were professors at STLCOP: Dr. Joe Haberle and Dr. C. Patrick Tharp. Dr. Haberle taught him lessons he uses in his pharmacy practice, while Tharp, a business professor, gave him certain business acumen.

Schlaefer says that STLCOP, in general, “set me up to be successful.” Schlaefer, in turn, has given back to STLCOP since graduating. In 1997, he established the Michelle Schlaefer Memorial Scholarship in his daughter’s honor. Every year, the scholarship is awarded to a second-year full-time student at STLCOP from either Lebanon High School or Schlaefer’s alma mater, Triad High School.

Schlaefer is also a brother of Kappa Psi and hangs out with some of his fellow brothers often. He gets together with one friend, in particular, every three to four weeks. “It’s a friendship that’s been there through good times and bad,” Schlaefer says.

Much like his brothers in Kappa Psi, Schlaefer has maintained friendships with his customers since the first day he opened. He opened Prescriptions Plus on Main Street in Lebanon on March 12, 1979. “I look back at the very first prescription. It was for a Mrs. Missy. It was for three (prescriptions). I only had one of the three,” he says. “I thought, ‘Oh my gosh–what a way to start a business.’”

“In a small town, you have to be a little bit of everything

to everybody.”

He recalls his college years fondly. “I enjoyed it

immensely. Everything I have today I owe to STLCOP.”

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Alumni News

I believe our history is the foundation

for our future.

“The College set me on

my life’s journey. They

invested in me, and now

it’s my turn to invest in

someone else’s future.

“I believe in the future of

pharmacy. I believe

in STLCOP.”

Steve Clement ’74

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Letter from the Alumni Association President

I began my term as president of the Alumni Association at the beginning of July and have been thinking a lot about the association’s history and purpose.

The College is 148 years old, and our Alumni Association is 137 years old—ours is a history rich with tradition. I was reminded of this at Reunion Weekend 2012. We had alumni who traveled to

St. Louis from as far away as Sun City, Ariz., to participate in the weekend celebration. Alumni enthusiastically shared many memories. It was a time to honor our history, celebrate our present accomplishments, and look toward our future.

The Alumni Association is your gateway to fellow alumni and the College where a lifetime of connections, learning, and service all come together. The association has charted a new course to enhance our efforts and developed a three-year plan that has defined our purpose and vision.

Our purpose aims to engage current and future alumni to create strong networks that foster a sense of pride and

Distinguished Alumni AwardsSix alumni received awards during Reunion Weekend 2012.

Laura Butkievich ’06 | Young Alumnus AwardWhen Laura Butkievich, Pharm.D., was a student at STLCOP,

she set a goal for herself to become a clinical coordinator within a hospital setting. Just six years after her graduation, she’s accomplished that goal. Laura is the system pharmacy clinical coordinator for University of Missouri Health Care.

A leader in her profession, Laura also acts as the PGY-1 Residency Program Director for University of Missouri Health Care, and sits on the board of directors for Missouri Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP) and MSHP Research and Education Foundation.

W. Thomas Smith ’93/’94 | Outstanding AchievementAs director of University of Florida’s online master of

science in pharmacy program, W. Thomas “Tommy” Smith, Pharm.D., is a course coordinator and professor, instructing doctor of pharmacy students and acting as preceptor for students on academic rotations.

Tommy’s work is focused on disability education in pharmacy curricula and legal and ethical issues related to disability and health care. “I have had the opportunity to engage in scholarly activities involving disabilities,” he says, “particularly focusing on students with disabilities, as well as pharmacy students’ knowledge and comfort with patients with disabilities. It is so incredibly gratifying to shine a light on such an ignored area.”

Art Perry ’72 | Loyalty AwardWhen he enrolled at STLCOP, Art Perry was one of only

three African-American students in his class. To pay his tuition and support his wife and children, Art worked the entire time he attended the College, even putting his education on hold for two years so he could work to replenish his savings. In 1972, Art graduated from STLCOP.

Art’s loyalty to Kean Drug spanned a 27-year career, starting as a clerk and eventually becoming manager, followed by six promotions in 19 years with Eli Lilly.

Art has always remained a dedicated alumnus of the College. From 1999-2008, Art served on the College’s Board of Trustees, where he helped initiate the rebuilding and expansion of the College’s campus. In addition, he is a past member and honorary president of STLCOP’s Alumni Association board of directors.

C. Patrick Tharp ’61/’62 | Outstanding Service to the CommunityIn 1989, Dr. Patrick Tharp established The Melling Group,

an international consulting company to the pharmaceutical industry that helps drug companies market products in other countries.

Patrick’s greatest passion is suicide prevention. In 2003, he founded Pharmacists Preventing Suicides©, a division of

The Melling Group specializing in teaching pharmacists, instructors, and pharmacy students to identify, refer, and assist persons at risk of taking their own lives to reduce suicide attempts and completions. Patrick has lectured on the subject of suicide prevention to mental health professionals, physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, as well as church and community groups.

Michelle Dyer ’98 | Outstanding Service to the ProfessionMichelle Dyer began her career in pharmacy while she

was a student at STLCOP. In addition to attending the College, she also worked at Fritz Pharmacy in Carlinville, Ill., her hometown. In 2008, 10 years after her graduation from STLCOP, Michelle assumed ownership of Fritz Pharmacy, renamed Michelle’s Pharmacy.

In addition to the pharmacy in Carlinville, Michelle opened a second location in Gillespie, Ill. As she looks toward her future in the pharmacy profession, Michelle keeps her customers’ needs in the forefront. “There’s a lot changing in pharmacy, and I am working so I can continue to give the best quality of service possible to my customers. These people were my grandparents’ friends, my parents’ friends; they deserve the highest quality care.”

Garth Reynolds ’00 | Outstanding Service to the CollegeAs pharmacy supervisor for Dierbergs Markets, Inc., Garth

Reynolds oversees the pharmacy operations for 22 pharmacies in the greater St. Louis area and metro east. In addition, Garth is the immunization program coordinator for Dierbergs Markets’ adult and late-adolescent immunization program.

Garth believes STLCOP has defined his career in community pharmacy. He, in turn, has given his leadership, expertise, and service to the profession and the College to help develop future pharmacists, and is currently the president of the Illinois Pharmacists Association. “I have and will always be ready to assist the College to move forward, improve the profession, and educate future pharmacists,” he says.

community, establish lifelong connections, and advance the needs of the College.

We invite you to pursue with us the five major goals of our purpose as an association. We are committed to offering programs and services that give you—no matter where you live—multiple opportunities to connect, be informed, learn, feel pride, volunteer, and contribute to the future of our College. We are committed to developing networking programs; professional development programs; service opportunities; interaction for alumni to support students; and most of all, increasing pride and loyalty among all of us and enhancing our relationship and association with the College.

There is much to be done; our alumni and friends are at the core of all we do. I encourage you to volunteer for a committee, attend an event, advocate for our alma mater by telling its story, and give of your time and resources to assist the College and students. With your help, we will become a stronger Alumni Association.

Bill Reed ’67President

ST. MAARTEN ISLANDFEB. 1–6, 2013

Tour the highlights of both the French- and Dutch-influenced island with a private guide. Explore Maho Village, and relax at the resort. Earn up to eight hours of continuing education credit.

ALASKAN CRUISEAUG. 3–10, 2013

Join us for this seven-day cruise through the Inside Passage aboard the ms Westerdam, providing astounding views of massive glaciers, rainforests, and magnificent fjords. Earn up to 16 hours of continuing education credit.

Experiencethe world with STLCOP

alumni.stlcop.edu/travel

Alumni Travel Program 2013

Left to right: Garth Reynolds, Patrick Tharp, Art Perry, Michelle Dyer, Laura Butkievich. Not pictured: W. Thomas Smith

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Alumni NewsAlumni News

This August, 225 third-year students received their white coats and officially became student pharmacists during the College’s annual White Coat Ceremony. Thank you to our many alumni who sponsored white coats and wrote notes of encouragement for the class of 2016!

CARDINALS VS. CUBS GAME, July 28

Photographs by Eric Pan, second-year student

Photos by Eric Pan second-year student, Colleen Krutewicz, and Jonathan Salter

WELCOME BACK BBQ, Aug. 21

MICROBREWERY TOUR, Oct. 6

SOULARD TOUR, Oct. 20

Thanks to the Welcome Back BBQ sponsors: CVS/Pharmacy, Dierbergs, Metro East Pharmacists Association, Pfoodman, Sam’s Club, Schnucks, Shop ‘n Save/Supervalu Pharmacies, and Walgreens. Photographs by Eric Pan, second-year student

REUNION WEEKEND 2012, SEPT. 29

WHITE COAT CEREMONY, AUG. 27

Tell your STLCOP friends and classmates about the latest news in your life.

Enjoy reading about your classmates in Class Notes? Share some news about your work projects, new jobs or promotions, marriages or children, awards, vacations, or hobbies. You also may send an e-mail to alumni@stlcop.edu or submit news online at alumni.stlcop.edu/classnotes.

Class Notes

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Class Notes

KOENTZ

MILLER

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1970sRandy Malan ’71 received the Illinois Pharmacists Association (IPhA) Bowl of Hygeia Award in October for his outstanding record of community service. Malan is director of clinical pharmacy services for the Illinois Department of Human Services. He is also a clinical consultant for the Illinois Department of Public Health’s Long-term Care Section and is the central pharmacist for the department’s Disaster Preparedness Section.

Ned Randle’s ’73 short story, “The Amazing Doctor Jones,” recently appeared in the summer 2012 Cigale Literary Magazine. Another, “The Boston Tar Baby,” will be puslished by Prism Review in spring 2013. His poems have also recently appeared in a number of literary publications.

1980sGregg Stolinski ’86 and his partner, Dr. John Leonardo, welcomed twins, Juliana Stolinski and Joseph Stolinski, on April 11. Juliana weighed 4 pounds, 13 ounces and measured 18.1 inches. Joseph weighed 5 pounds, 8 ounces and measured 17.3 inches. Gregg is a supervising pharmacist for Rite Aid. The family resides in Manhattan.

2000sEllen (Pollman) Voelker ’04/’05 married Cory Voelker on May 11 in St. Louis. Ellen is employed by Schnucks Pharmacy in Rockford, Ill. Cory is a CPA for Boeing. The couple resides in Chicago.

Amy (Hartley) Tiemeier ’01/’02 and her husband, Brian, welcomed their fourth child, Elicia Elizabeth, on Sept. 11. She

weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces and measured 20 1/2 inches. She joins big sisters, Cora, 7, and Disa, 5, and big brother, William, 2. Amy is director of professional affairs and assistant professor of pharmacy practice at STLCOP.

Shannon (Stromske) Effinger ’00/’01 and her husband, Kevin Walker, welcomed their third child, Leena Kay, on Aug. 26. She weighed 9 pounds, 2 ounces and measured 21.5 inches. She joins big sister, Nola, 5, and big brother, Devin, 4. Shannon is a clinical coordinator at Touchette Regional Hospital in Centerville, Ill. The family lives in Alton, Ill.

Kelcey (Thornbrough) Blair ’04 received a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health

Sciences in Boston. She is a staff pharmacist at Health-Bridge Pharma & Biotech/Express Scripts. Kelcey, her husband, Nick, and their son, Bennett, 5, reside in St. Charles, Mo.

Les Miller ’04 and his wife, Lesley (Cart) Miller ’04, welcomed their second child, Katherine Jean, on June 25. She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces and measured 19 ¾ inches. She joins big sister, Claire. Les is a pharmacist at Walmart in Carrollton, Ky. Lesley is a clinical pharmacist at Humana. The family resides in Madison, Ind.

2010sSophie (Backes) Branson ’10 married Mitchell Branson on March 17. Sophie works for Phelps County Regional Medical Center in Rolla, Mo. The couple lives in Linn, Mo.

Micha (Scabarozi) Koentz ’10 married Joel Koentz on Oct. 13 at Integrity Hills in Ridgedale, Mo. Micha is employed as a pediatric hematology and oncology pharmacist at Cook Chil-dren’s Medical Center. Joel is a site manager at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics for Haas Group International. The couple resides in Fort Worth, Texas.

Tony Roberts ’10 opened St. Charles Health Mart Pharmacy in May. Tony says, “I am thrilled to see my lifelong dream of owning and operating an independent pharmacy become a reality.”

STOLINSKI

MALAN

VOELKER

Remembering Joan H. Hanson

Former professional actress and STLCOP Assistant Professor of Communication Joan Hanson made an art of playing a variety of interesting characters. Whether cast as a maid alongside Billie Burke or portraying the outrageous Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, Hanson assumed the role of an uncommon woman. She performed in countless productions at the St. Louis Municipal Opera, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Plantation Theatre, Empress Playhouse, and even made a guest artist appearance at University Theatres in Hollywood, Calif.

Earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree in speech and theater helped her prepare for the role of professor and director of theater at St. Louis College of Pharmacy. During her time at STLCOP (from January 1988 until December 2011), Hanson directed 30 College plays and coordinated 74 liberal arts convocations. In 2004, Hanson received the Byron A. Barnes Excellence in Education Student Enrichment Award.

She also taught at numerous other St. Louis area universities over the course of her six-decade teaching career, including Saint Louis University, Webster University, Maryville University, and Fontbonne University.

Joan Hanson, 81, died on July 25, 2012, in St. Louis. She was born on Aug. 10, 1930. Her husband, Alan, a professional director and theater teacher, preceded her in death. She is survived by her sons, Robert and Thomas; daughter, Laura; daughter-in-law, Elizabeth; grandson, Todd; and granddaughters, Erin, Rachel, and Megan.

Affordable Medication for All

Barry Wilson ’62/’63 knows what it’s like to never have enough money. “I grew up poor,” he says. “We could not afford a 50 cent plastic kazoo to share between me and my brother for our grade school’s music class.”

His childhood experience shaped his current pharmacy practice as chief pharmacy officer of Family Care Health Centers in St. Louis—a federally qualified health center that provides care to more than 19,000 patients annually.

“Helping our homeless, uninsured, and indigent patients strongly motivates me,” Wilson says. “They have nowhere else to go, and I try not to fail them. I try not to put our patients in the position where they have to decide between food, rent, or medicine.”

Under Wilson’s leadership, the center has provided its patients with more than $7,000,000 in free medications through Patient Assistance Programs and more than $300,000 in medical material aid from Direct Relief USA. (Direct Relief is a medical relief organization that

works with more than 1,000 health clinics across the U.S., providing them with free medications for people in need.)

In July, Direct Relief highlighted Wilson’s work to make medication affordable for all in their newsletter and on their blog. You can read the full interview at www.directrelief.org/2012/07/partner-spotlight-family-care-health-services/.

Class Notes

Leading the Profession

Jeannine (Keltner) Dickerhofe ’71 received the 2012 Bowl of Hygeia Award for outstanding community service by the Colorado Pharmacists Society. The award is sponsored by the American Pharmacists Association Foundation and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations.

Dickerhofe is the immediate past-president of the Colorado Board of Pharmacy. In July, she was reappointed by the governor for a second term on the board. She has been appointed to serve as chairperson on the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws for the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) for 2013, and is chairperson of district 8 of the NABP.

She is also a member of the Governor’s Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee for the state of Colorado, and is a member of the Colorado Pharmacy Coalition and Legislative Committee for the Colorado Pharmacists Society. She has been appointed as a member of the Continuing Pharmacy Education Commission for the Accreditation Council on Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and served as chair of the commission in 2010. In addition, Dickerhofe is co-chairperson for the ACPE Continuous Professional Development Task Force, and is a member of the Stakeholder Policy Council for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board.

Dickerhofe is senior manager of pharmacy professional affairs for the Colorado region of Kaiser Permanente. She and her husband, Bruce Dickerhofe ’71, live in Superior, Colo. They recently became first-time grandparents. Dickerhofe is the daughter of Robert Keltner ’30.

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In MemoriamLeon M. Birenbaum ’47 died June 13 in St. Louis.

Ronald E. Karber ’52 died Oct. 6 in Belleville, Ill.

Neal F. Tschannen ’53 died July 4 in Greenville, Ill.

Joseph D. Corsolini ’56 died Aug. 28 in Rockford, Ill.

John L. Barlow ’61 died Sept. 8 in Bloomington, Ill.

Joseph A. Shea ’62 died Oct. 19 in Perryville, Mo.

Randall W. Thompson ’68 died Sept. 30 in St. Louis.

Allyn Chiolero ’71 died Aug. 15 in Eureka, Mo.

Andrew J. Mank ’72 died July 4 in Belleville, Ill.

Stephen A. Norman ’72 died June 9 in Willow Springs, Mo.

Paul E. Chojnacki ’77 died June 25 in Fishers, Ind.

Michael R. Gray ’79 died May 20 in Shelbyville, Ill.

Timothy M. Rallo ’89 died June 6 in Maryville, Ill.

LOOKING BACK

What’s the Story Behind This Old STLCOP Photo?

We discovered this photo buried deep in our College archives, but we’re not sure what’s going on here. Can you help identify any of the people in the photo, where they are, or what they are doing? Do you recognize the classroom or why it seems these three men are jazzing it up in a lab?

We want to hear all about it.

Share whatever information you have on our College Flickr site—where you’ll find more old photos that need figuring out— at flickr.com/stlcop.

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