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News  Items  and  Personal  Notes. 
{Am.  JouF.  Pharns. 
November,  1920. 
Mr.  W.  A.  Sailer,  of  Sharp  &  Dohme,  has  been  elected  as  Presi- 
dent for  the  unexpired  term  of  the  late  President  R.  C.  Stofer. 
NbwIvY  Elected  Head  of  the  Norwich  Pharmacal  Company.. 
Mr.  W.  G.  Peckham,  Second  Vice-President  and  General  Sales 
Director  of  the  Norwich  Pharmacal  Company  has  been  elected 
President  of  that  corporation,  filling  the  vacancy  caused  by  the 
decease  of  R.  C.  Stofer. 
Mr.  Peckham  received  his  early  pharmaceutical  training  in  the 
organization  of  which  he  is  now  the  head,  having  been  engaged 
when  sixteen  years  of  age  as  errand  boy  in  the  tablet  department. 
W.   G. PECKHAM. 
After  six  years'  experience  in  which  he  became  an  expert  tablet  man^ 
he  accepted  a  position  as  foreman  of  the  tablet  department  of  the 
Geo.  L.  Clafiin  Company — wholesale  druggists  of  Providence,  R.  I., 
who  conducted  a  manufacturing  laboratory  in  connection  with  their 
wholesale  business.  A  year  later,  at  the  formation  of  the  Daggett 
and  Miller  Company,  he  became  Superintendent  of  their  laboratory 
and  later  on,  Vice-President  and  General  Manager. 
About  ten  years  ago  he  returned  to  his  first  employers  as  Assistant 
