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News  Items  and  Personal  Notices.  {  Am.  jour.  Pharm. 
1       June,  1918. 
OBITUARY. 
James  L.  Bispham. 
James  L.  Bispham  was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Maria  Stokes 
Bispham. 
He  was  born  December  19,  1833,  on  Filbert  Street  west  of 
Eighth  Street,  Philadelphia.  He  attended  school  in  Philadelphia  and 
later  at  Lawrenceville,  New  Jersey,  graduating  in  1850  and  deliver- 
ing the  valedictory  address. 
He  learned  the  drug  business  with  Bullock  and  Crenshaw,  and 
later  attended  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  graduated 
with  the  class  of  1854.  He  at  once  joined  the  College.  At  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  the  oldest  member  of  the  College  in 
point  of  membership,  being  a  member  for  sixty-four  years.  He 
carried  on  the  drug  business  at  710  South  Second  Street  from  1854 
to  1892.  (This  was  the  place  of  business  of  Peter  Williamson,  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.)  He  was 
a  director  in  the  Southwark  National  Bank  and  a  vestryman  of 
Saint  Andrew's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  In  1859  he  was  mar- 
ried to  Mary  Palmer,  of  Richmond,  Virginia.  One  daughter  sur- 
vives, Mrs.  Elizabeth  P.  Townsend. 
He  died  April  3,  1918,  and  was  buried  in  the  churchyard  of  Trin- 
ity Church,  Moorestown,  New  Jersey. 
C.  A.  Weidemann. 
NEWS  ITEMS  AND  PERSONAL  NOTICES. 
P.  C.  P.  Alumni  Reception  to  Dean  La  Wall  and  Newly 
Elected  Professors. — On  Friday  evening,  April  26,  the  Alumni 
Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  tendered  a 
reception  to  the  newly  elected  dean  and  professors.  President 
Howard  B.  French  acted  as  toastmaster  and  fathered  the  theme  of 
the  evening,  "  the  new  College  buildings  on  the  City's  new  broad 
park  way."  The  following  members  of  the  faculty  responded  to 
toasts :  Dean  La  Wall,  Professors  Sturmer,  Stroup,  Cook,  Youngken, 
Gershenfeld,  Bernstein  and  Emeritus  Professor  Sadtler. 
