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News  Items  and  Personal  Notes. 
Am.  Jour.  Phartn. 
June,  1920. 
in  his  studies  and  work  have  been  personal  characteristics  upon  which 
his  success  had  been  largely  built.  The  speaker  referred  to  the 
tempestuous  waves  of  the  pre-convention  period  and  the  radical 
views  of  certain  delegates  that  threatened  danger  to  the  voyage  of 
"Ship  Revision"  and  how  with  the  election  of  Prof.  Cook  as  chair- 
man this  storm  was  immediately  calmed  and  a  happy  and  successful 
voyage  was  now  prophesied. 
Dr.  Harry  Vin  Arny,  of  New  York,  extended  his  congratulations 
and  expressed  the  sentiment  that  the  members  of  the  Committee  of 
Revision  had  arrived  at  the  conclusion  that  Prof.  Cook  was  the 
most  logical  man  both  as  to  experience  and  personal  qualities  to  act 
as  chairman  of  the  committee  and  predicted  that  he  would  be  con- 
tinued permanently  as  chairman  for  the  balance  of  his  days. 
Dr.  B.  G.  Eberle  spoke  of  the  general  approval  that  had  followed 
the  selection  of  E.  FuUerton  Cook  as  chairman,  and  of  the  conference 
in  which  the  qualifications  essential  for  the  chairmanship  of  the 
Revision  Committee  had  been  discussed  and  in  which  it  was  con- 
cluded that  Prof.  Cook  possessed  the  requisite  energy,  stability  and 
ability  called  for. 
Among  the  other  speakers  of  the  evening  was  A.  Louis  Seift, 
a  college  classmate,  who  made  some  humorous  references  to  the 
Class  Book  and  prophesies  therein  as  to  the  future  of  the  man  we 
were  now  honoring  when  he  was  a  student  at  the  P.  C.  P. 
Dr.  R.  P.  Fischelis,  Mr.  O.  W.  Osterlund,  Dr.  C.  B.  Lowe  and 
Mr.  Ambrose  Hunsberger  likewise  added  their  messages  of  congratu- 
lation. 
In  response  Prof.  E.  Fullerton  Cook  told  of  some  of  his  early 
experiences  in  the  drug  store  and  his  association  with  the  members 
of  the  faculty  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  members 
of  the  Committee  of  Revision.  He  referred  to  a  recent  visit  he 
had  made  to  one  of  the  government  departments  during  which 
some  of  the  self-satisfaction  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of 
Revision  was  brushed  down  and  his  ardor  at  the  recent  elevation 
was  damped  by  the  reception  he  had  received  when  he  attempted  to 
discuss  a  pharmacopoeial  problem  with  an  official  of  the  depart- 
ments. 
Prof.  Cook  paid  a  high  tribute  to  the  training  and  example  of  his 
father  and  mother  and  to  the  habits  and  principles  which  they  had 
very  early  grafted  into  his  career  and  which  laid  the  foundation  for 
the  measure  of  success  that  had  come  to  him.    His  association  with 
