Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  \ 
January,  1911.  / 
Susan  Hayhurst. 
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ably  the  first  woman  graduate  to  practise  pharmacy  in  America  if 
not  the  world.^ 
Shortly  after  the  death  of  Dr.  Hayhurst  on  August  7,  1909,  some 
of  the  women  graduates  of  the  college,  under  the  leadership  of 
Miss  Sarah  L.  Naly,  her  successor  as  apothecary  of  the  Woman's 
Hospital,  determined  to  have  a  portrait  done  in  oil  for  presentation 
to  the  College.  Early  in  November,  1909,  they  obtained  the  consent 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees  to  hang  the  proposed  painting  in  the 
Museum  of  the  College  and  soon  thereafter  the  Committee  of  the 
women  graduates  secured  the  services  of  a  Philadelphia  artist,  Miss 
Florence  J.  Newton,  to  execute  the  work.  The  portrait  was  made 
after  a  photograph  of  Dr.  Hayhurst,  taken  but  a  few  months  before 
her  decease  by  the  well-known  photographer,  Mr.  F.  Gutekunst, 
assisted  by  the  artist's  personal  recollection  of  her  subject.  A  re- 
production of  the  photograph  is  given  in  the  frontispiece.  The 
painting  is  a  most  excellent  one,  being  about  two-thirds  life-size, 
and  hangs  in  a  prominent  place  in  the  Museum,  selected  by  the 
women  graduates. 
The  president  of  the  College,  Mr.  Howard  B.  French,  presided 
at  the  presentation  exercises,  and  in  opening  the  meeting  referred 
to  the  splendid  services  of  Dr.  Hayhurst  for  the  advancement  of  the 
Woman's  Hospital  of  Philadelphia,  and  spoke  of  his  personal  knowl- 
edge of  her  work  for  the  benefit  of  women  in  pharmacy  and  her 
noble  example  to  her  students  and  apprentices. 
Professor  Remington  was  to  have  presented  the  portrait  on 
behalf  of  the  women  graduates,  but  was  unavoidably  absent  and  his 
address  was  read  by  Professor  Kraemer.    It  was  as  follows  : 
Mr.  Howard  B.  French, 
President  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy : 
On  behalf  of  the  women  graduates  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy,  we  have  much  pleasure  in  presenting  to  the  College  this 
portrait  of  Susan  Hayhurst,  M.D.,  Ph.G.,  who  was  the  first  woman 
graduate  of  this  College. 
The  long  and  useful  career  of  our  deceased  friend  was  marked 
^  Elizabeth  Marshall,  though  not  a  graduate  in  pharmacy,  was  probably 
the  first  woman  to  practise  pharmacy  in  this  country  (see  this  Journal^ 
1904,  p.  271),  and  it  is  recorded  that  Dr.  Mary  Putnam  Jacobi  graduated 
from  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy  in  1883,  the  year  of  Dr.  Hay- 
hurst's  graduation,  but  it  is  probable  that  she  never  engaged  in  the  practice, 
having  become  distinguished  as  a  teacher  and  practitioner  in  medicine. — Editor, 
