The 2004 Albert B. Prescott Circle Dinner: October 29: Horace H. Rackham Building

Albert Benjamin Prescott
(1832-1905)
First Dean of The University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
Photo courtesy of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, Madison, Wis.

George L. Phillips, BSPharm’39, meets with P-2 Diane Domas, first recipient of the George L. and Margarent H. Phillips Scholarship, established in 2004 to support PharmD students in good standing and with financial need.

A physician by training, Albert B. Prescott elevated the practice of pharmacy from craft to science by infusing scientific rigor into academic coursework. For taking this then-heretical stance, Prescott was shunned by the educational and professional establishment of his day. By the time of his death in 1905, nearly all U.S. pharmacy schools had come to embrace Prescott’s visionary educational model.

The annual Albert B. Prescott Circle Dinner celebrates Prescott’s leadership example by bringing together the College’s most generous financial supporters, and scholarship recipients, in whom the future is invested.

To learn more about creating a scholarship fund at the College of Pharmacy, contact the College’s Office of Development and Alumni Relations at 734-764-7350 or e-mail pharm.advance@umich.edu.

Helen Richards and former Dean and emeritus professor of Social and Administrative Sciences James W. Richards, BSPharm’55, with P-3s Elizabeth Newton and Patti Ames, both 2004 recipients of the James W. Richards Scholarship.

Barbara and Samuel Ching, BSPharm’55 with P-3 student Jerry Hu. In 1991, the Chings established the Samuel C.H. and Barbara W. Ching Scholarship to assist P-3 and P-4 students on the basis of need and merit with a priority given to students of Chinese ancestry.

P. Gregory Peck Scholarship recipient P-3 Daniel Torreano with Dennis Dahlmann and Patricia Garcia. In 2000, Dahlmann and the late actor E. Gregory Peck established a scholarship in honor of P. Gregory Peck, the actor’s father and a 1909 graduate of the College of Pharmacy.

From left: P-3 Erika Wilson, P-4 Michelle Brinker, P-3 Emily Cook, Gayle (Crick) Fischer, BSPharm’74, Thomas Fischer, William T. Crick, Norma J. Crick, and P-4 Tia Corbett. Wilson, Brinker and Cook are 2004 recipients of the Gayle C. Crick Scholarship, Corbett is the recipient of the William T. and Norma J. Crick Scholarship. Both scholarships were established by Gayle and are awarded annually based on financial need.