Preparing for 'modern pharmacy'
Through the years, the CPHS has adapted to industry changes in order to offer students a variety of career options.

It was November 1951, and the cover of North Western Druggist featured a photo of Fitch Hall. The cover story on the Drake University College of Pharmacy, as it was called at that time, included a discussion of the College's history, facilities and curriculum, and noted, "Indicative of the complete range of courses at the college are a series of electives in drug-store management, arranged through the co-operation [sic] of the college of business administration. The sequence of courses includes drug store accounting, sales promotion and store management. … The wide coverage of both business and professional areas of pharmacy at Drake enables the graduate to solve intelligently and skillfully the problems encountered in modern pharmacy."  (continued)

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CPHS Alumni Newsletter - Spring, 2004

A Note from Dean Raylene Rospond

Hot Topic
Today's pharmacists have more career options

In Brief
Rospond named dean of CPHS

Internship puts student on policy frontline

APhA elects Drake alum as president

Drake students honored

Preparing for 'modern pharmacy'
Through the years, the CPHS has adapted to industry changes in order to offer students a variety of career options.

Alumni
Be a philanthropist

Profiles

Talk of the Town
Should the United States allow the importation of drugs from Canada?