What’s in a name? In this case, a scholarship
A scholarship at the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy has been established in honor of Dr. Victor Yanchick, dean of VCU School of Pharmacy.
Patrick Fuchs, who graduated from OU in 1985, credits Yanchick as a mentor and an inspiration.
When he was suspended from University of Texas at Austin in the early 1980s, Fuchs was just about to give up his academic career. Yanchick, then assistant dean for students at UT Austin, encouraged Fuchs to start again at OU.
Yanchick, by the way, followed suit and moved to University of Oklahoma in 1985, where he served as dean and professor till 1996.
The scholarship — which is also in honor of Fuchs’ father, pharmacist John Edmund Fuchs — will give special consideration to applicants who are dealing with difficulties, especially of the academic kind, while pursuing a degree.
Fuchs is a practicing pharmacist in Angleton, Texas. The story behind the Victor Yanchick Scholarship recently appeared in Priority, a publication of the University of Oklahoma Foundation.
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