AphA welcomes Bowles

Abstract

The JFK assassination. Vietnam. Watergate. Election of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan to their first political offices.Those are just a few of the things that had not occurred when Grover C. Bowles Jr. received the 1962 Harvey A. K. Whitney Lecture Award, hospital pharmacy's highest honor. As a 42-year-old director of pharmacy at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, TN, he might reasonably have assumed that award would be the pinnacle of his career.It was not. Bowles went on to serve as APhA President in 1965–66 and Treasurer from 1967 to 1978, and to receive American pharmacy's highest honor, the Remington Honor Medal, in 1973. His career at Baptist would stretch to 1984, halfway point of a 4-year term as president of the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education.Debbie Crom, a nurse at St. Jude, and her daughter Mary Jean, a schoolteacher in the DC area, look out over the Lincoln Memorial. Debbie's husband Bill is a pharmacist with Amgen.View Large Image Figure ViewerDownload (PPT)Thanks to the efforts of this year's Remington medalist, Bill Evans of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Bowles and his wife Mary were able to lead a Tennessee delegation on a visit to the new APhA headquarters building on May 30. APhA staffers Linda Gainey, Gwen Norheim, and Rachel Whid- den facilitated the visit.Bill Ellis (left), Executive Director of the Board of Pharmacy Specialties, talks with Eoff and Evans following a tour of the APhA building.View Large Image Figure ViewerDownload (PPT)APhA has made much progress since Bowles shared these insights with his hospital pharmacy colleagues in his Whitney lecture: "Where we go from here will depend largely on our ability to continue to learn and, more importantly, on our ability to change." Bowles was treasurer of APhA during very tight financial times— so much so that leaders considered selling the Constitution Avenue property. As someone who understands association finances, Bowles was pleased that past APhA executive John A. Gans and other modern-day leaders were able to put together the finances and get the approvals needed to construct the impressive structure APhA now calls home.Menighan begins remarks after a luncheon for Grover and Mary Bowles in the Art Gallery at APhA.View Large Image Figure ViewerDownload (PPT)"To see what's here is almost beyond my imagination," Bowles said. "This is a real monument to American pharmacy." The JFK assassination. Vietnam. Watergate. Election of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan to their first political offices. Those are just a few of the things that had not occurred when Grover C. Bowles Jr. received the 1962 Harvey A. K. Whitney Lecture Award, hospital pharmacy's highest honor. As a 42-year-old director of pharmacy at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, TN, he might reasonably have assumed that award would be the pinnacle of his career. It was not. Bowles went on to serve as APhA President in 1965–66 and Treasurer from 1967 to 1978, and to receive American pharmacy's highest honor, the Remington Honor Medal, in 1973. His career at Baptist would stretch to 1984, halfway point of a 4-year term as president of the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education. Thanks to the efforts of this year's Remington medalist, Bill Evans of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Bowles and his wife Mary were able to lead a Tennessee delegation on a visit to the new APhA headquarters building on May 30. APhA staffers Linda Gainey, Gwen Norheim, and Rachel Whid- den facilitated the visit. APhA has made much progress since Bowles shared these insights with his hospital pharmacy colleagues in his Whitney lecture: "Where we go from here will depend largely on our ability to continue to learn and, more importantly, on our ability to change." Bowles was treasurer of APhA during very tight financial times— so much so that leaders considered selling the Constitution Avenue property. As someone who understands association finances, Bowles was pleased that past APhA executive John A. Gans and other modern-day leaders were able to put together the finances and get the approvals needed to construct the impressive structure APhA now calls home. "To see what's here is almost beyond my imagination," Bowles said. "This is a real monument to American pharmacy."