THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 3 



THE ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER. 



The regular annual Alumni Dinner held at Reisenwebers, Eighth 

 avenue and Fifty-eighth street, New York, on Wednesday evening, 

 December 5th, was a very well attended and enjoyable affair. 



The toastmaster, Wm. A. Hoburg. Jr., introduced the following 

 speakers during the course of the dinner : — 



The Hon. Martin Saxe, State Senator from the College of Pharm- 

 acy district. He delivered a very fine speech, stating that he was in 

 favor of State legislation bearing on pharmacy, when that legislation 

 was to the betterment of pharmacy, and he strongly urged the State 

 Board of Pharmacy to show their preference in all matters pertaining 

 to pharmacy which ma}' come up for passage at Albany, saying that 

 if the State Board expressed its opinion, either for or against legisla- 

 tion aft'ecting pharmacy, such would be received, and given much 

 attention, for they (the Board of Pharmacy) knew better than the 

 legislators in nearly every instance what was good for the welfare of 

 pharmacy, and that they should not be a neutral body but take an 

 active part in all pharmaceutical legislation. 



The next speaker introduced was the ITon. President of the Alunuii 

 Association, who made a brief address. 



In between' dining and speeches, Dan Quinn, the humorist and 

 singer, rendered several popular songs and stories. 



Prof. Rusby related his experiences of some years ago, seeking two 

 crates of strawberries from a railroad station somewhere out in New 

 Jersey and wherein he was arrested and released immediately. The 

 story is too long to relate here, but we hope to have Prof. Rusby 

 write it up for the Journal in the near future. 



The next speaker was Mr. Owens, who is called the "College 

 Plumber," because he has a plumbing business near the college and 

 does all the plumbing work for the college (and others were done 

 too). 



Dr. Wm. Muir, a charter member of the Alumni Association, was 

 the next speaker, followed by Dr. Diekman, A. C. Searles and Chas. 

 S. Erb. By this time the dining was over and all went home feeling 

 happy. 



Amongst the wholesalers noticed were Mr. Dill, of Wm. R. Warner 

 & Co. : ]\Tr. Burns, of McKesson & Robbins ; Mr. Culpepper, of Coca 

 Cola Co. ; Mr. Mandlebaum. of AA^m. S. ]\Terrill Co., and several 

 others. 



