OCR Text |
Show 22 years as dean I Dr. Miner retires from pharmacy post there are eurrpntv ic ... I I ... A l .i.-J there are currently 36 worne, an undergraduate studentbod 280 registered in the Cofc ' Pharmacy. 6C ' Hiner is listed in Who's . America, Who's Who in ft :; Who's Who in the West r Knows What, American iks "' Science, and Who's Who in J erican Education as well as fa a member of numerous pJ sional and honorary societies Retirement plans After his retirement in Jmy t ner plans to catch up on his h'tc ing and fishing. At the samefe he will also work on a book h( -writing about medicinal pfc He will continue to do somes search and teaching. Hiner concluded "To me o. the greatest thrills is to walkr a classroom, begin a lecture, E have the heterogenous group ' students, until now distracted r ':" various things, spontaneously e ..v fy in attention because they interested in what I am safe I and from the expressions on faces, realize that I am prole ly changing their future." BY DAVE MILLARD Staff Writer "If I have one regret in coming to the age of retirement," said Dr. L. David Hiner, who will relinquish re-linquish his position as Dean of Pharmacy July 1, 1970, "it will be that I will not be privileged to be directly concerned with the classroom class-room instruction of the high quality qual-ity students now coming to the University." He has served as the Dean for 22 years. Hiner had envisioned his attending attend-ing pharmacy school as a stepping stone to medical school. He enrolled en-rolled in the pharmacy program at South Dakota State College, supporting himself by washing dishes, shoveling campus sidewalks, side-walks, and working as a janitor in the men's dormitory. Despite these time-consuming activities, he was an honor student, captain of South Dakota's football and basketball teams, and he won medals in track. Hiner completed his graduate work in pharmacy at the University of Florida, and in 1947, after serving for seven years as professor of pharmacy at Ohio State University, became the first Dean of Pharmacy at the Utah pharmacy school. Since his entrance into the field he has seen vast changes both in pharmacy and in pharmaceutical pharmaceuti-cal education. Recalls Hiner, "In my lifetime I have seen pharmacy education move from an apprentice appren-tice type training through the stages of the two, three, four and five year collegiate requirements." require-ments." He observed, "After the initial two year degree was replaced re-placed with the three year program, pro-gram, many benefits were noted. Not only were the students who graduated from such a program better prepared to practice, but more people were attracted into the pharmaceutical area. Hiner continued, "In 1932, with the four year program required as the minimum education in pharmacy, the bachelor of science degree in pharmacy was awarded. award-ed. This was a standard world recognized degree." Said Hiner, "Most of the class offerings for pharmacists then were in science; the pharmacist was supposed to be a businessman, but had little education in business. He was supposed sup-posed to be a humanitarian, but had little education in the humanities. human-ities. In fact, we were often referred re-ferred to as scientific barbarians." Fifth year program To give future pharmacists a wider range of education, the fifth year of the program became mandatory man-datory in 1960. "And," added Hiner, Hi-ner, "we are now talking of a possible sixth year, with emphasis empha-sis on specialized education." He remarked that "in pharmacy, pharma-cy, as in all health professions, there is a lack of trained personnel." person-nel." He listed the many areas into which pharmacy graduates could go. "While most pharmacy graduates go into retail practice, ther are many other areas of specialization available such as hospital pharmacy, research, pharmacy education, drug manufacture, manu-facture, and medical service representation rep-resentation of drug companies." Opportunities for women While Hiner concedes to the fact that there are not many women wom-en currently in pharmacy, he notes that there are opportunities in the field for them. In his opinion, opin-ion, "Women make good pharmacists pharma-cists because they are well organized, or-ganized, clean, neat, and precise characteristics essential in pharmacy. phar-macy. It is observed that the presence of a woman in an establishment estab-lishment changes its whole atmosphere at-mosphere "it gives it a spar- Dr. David L. Hiner, retiring dean of College of Pharmacy kle and a dignity which could not be produced with men alone." Besides their capabilities in t h e dispensary, "women are naturals in the fields of cosmetics and baby items." Role of mother Conversely, notes Hiner, "pharmacy "phar-macy is useful knowledge for a woman in her roles as mother and wife." From its former condition condi-tion as an all-male profession, |