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America  for  the  training  of  druggists  and  pharmacists,  is  celebrat- 
ing its  century  of  growth  by  inaugurating  a  definite  series  of  changes 
and  advancements,  almost  as  epoch-making  as  was  the  founding  of 
the  institution  in  Carpenters'  Hall,  Philadelphia,  in  182 1. 
The  project  includes  an  endowment  fund,  new  officers,  new 
buildings,  a  new  site  and  a  new  programme  of  service  to  the  science 
of  Pharmacy  and  to  humanity. 
The  first  step  to  bring  about  the  new  order  of  things  was  taken 
on  March  28,  when,  at  the  most  largely  attended  meeting  the  college 
has  held  in  a  quarter  of  a  century,  Otto  W.  Osterlund  was  elected 
president  of  the  college  in  the  place  of  Howard  B.  French,  Frank 
R.  Rohrman  was  chosen  to  succeed  Richard  V.  Mattison  as  first 
vice-president,  and  Ambrose  Hunsberger  to  succeed  Charles  A. 
Weidemann  as  recording  secretary.  Ivor  Griffith  was  named  as 
the  editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  in  the  place 
of  George  M.  Beringer,  who  resigned. 
Mr.  Osterlund  assumes  his  new  duties  at  the  height  of  a  suc- 
cessful business  career.  He  was  born  May  28,  1874,  and  was 
graduated  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  with  the 
class  of  1899,  of  which  ,  he  was  vice-president.  He  is  a  former 
president  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  College  and  of  the 
Philadelphia  Association  of  Retail  Druggists.  Formerly  he  main- 
tained two  flourishing  drug  stores  in  Philadelphia,  but  left  this 
business  recently  to  assume  the  presidency  of  the  Belmont  Trust 
Company.  He  is  a  treasurer  of  the  Pennsylvania  Board  of  Phar- 
macy, having  been  appointed  to  the  board  successively  by  Governors 
Tener,  Brumbaugh  and  Sproul. 
Frank  R.  Rohrman,  the  new  vice-president,  is  president  of  the 
Philadelphia  Wholesale  Drug  Company.  Ambrose  Hunsberger,  the 
new  secretary,  is  a  retail  pharmacist.  Ivor  Griffith,  the  new  editor 
of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  is  instructor  in  Pharmacy 
and  Pharmaceutical  Arithmetic  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy and  Science.  It  is  understood  that  Mr.  Osterlund  is  taking 
the  presidency  only  until  such  time  as  a  man  of  national  reputation 
who  can  devote  his  entire  time  to  the  college  can  be  procured.  On 
assuming  his  new  duties,  Mr.  Osterlund  said: 
"I  believe  that  an  institution  of  the  high  character  and  import- 
ance of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  Science  needs 
a  man  of  unusual  attainments  at  its  head.  He  should  be  a  scholar 
— a  man  of  wide  reputation.    He  should  possess  a  magnetic  per- 
