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C. U. C. p. ALUMNI JOURNAL 



A TRIBUTE TO MR. BIGELOW. 



On the evening- of May third, at the 

 Drug and Chemical Club, one hundred 

 and sixty-three friends and admirers of 

 Clarence O. Bigelow, treasurer of the 

 College of Pharmacy of Co]uml:)ia Uni- 

 versity, gathered to 

 do him honor and 

 to celebrate with 

 him the fiftieth an- 

 niversary of his en- 

 trance into the 

 calling which he 

 has so enriched and 

 adorned. 



After enjoying a 

 delightfully pre- 

 pared meal of eight 

 courses, the toast- 

 master Dr. William 

 J. Schieffelin, 

 opened the post- 

 prandial exercises 

 with a witty speech 

 in which he empha- 

 sized the fact that it 

 seemed impossible 

 that so young a 

 looking man as 

 Mr. Bigelow could 

 be celebrating any- 

 thing suggesting a semi-centennial. He 

 expressed the feelings of regret experi- 

 enced by all present over the fact that 

 a slight indisposition kept from the 

 dinner Dr. Charles F. Chandler, who 

 had hoped to respond to the toast 

 "Bigelow, the Pupil." 



Dr. Schiefifelin then called on Mr. 

 Samuel W. Fairchild, former president 

 of the College, who spoke on "Bigelow 



CLARENCE O. BIGELOW 



the New Treasurer" and told of the 

 days twenty years since, when the Col- 

 lege had been moved from Twenty- 

 third Street to its present site ; when 

 the Trustees selected Mr. Bigelow to 



guide the finances 

 of the Institution. 

 Mr. Bigelow'sstrik- 

 ing success as 

 treasurer was best 

 shown in the simple 

 Stat eme n t that 

 since he became 

 the financial officer 

 in 1897 the debt on 

 the College build- 

 ing has been re- 

 duced from $90,000 

 to 145,000. Mr. 

 Fairchild predicted 

 that within three 

 years the debt 

 would be ex- 

 tinguished. 



Mr. Horatio N. 

 F r a s er, former 

 treasurer of the 

 College, was then 

 called on and gave 

 a delightful talk on 

 "Some Financial Reminiscences. "He 

 recited the difficulties besetting the trust- 

 ees of 1893 in planning the removal of the 

 College from the old site to Sixty- 

 eighth Street. He spoke of the grave 

 undertaking then confronting the trus- 

 tees ; the erection of a $230,000 plant 

 on a cash basis of only $40,000. He 

 then related interestingly how Mr. 

 Frederick K. Bourne of the Singer 



