It’s the Faculty Name Game!
If something’s done right, it’s worth waiting for.
Right?
Well, it’s been nearly two months, and we’re ready to reveal the winner of the 50th Anniversary Graduate Alumni Reunion’s first Faculty Name Game.
A drum roll, please …
The winner, a fourth-year Ph.D. student who attended the Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program event in October, is Amit Somani.
Somani won with 21 of 26 correct IDs, diligence, perseverance and not a little help from his friends: mostly current or emeriti faculty who were happy to pitch in, reminiscing all the way about present or former compatriots. Somani’s prize? A lovely black and gold School of Pharmacy throw blanket, good for comfort and warmth during those all-night study-slash-research sessions.
To see the original circa 1975-76 photo and the numbered version, click on Somani’s photo and then use the right arrow on your keyboard to progress. To see the ANSWERS to the name game, click here.
If you know the names of No. 3 or No. 7, the only ones we’re missing, please e-mail [email protected] or call (804) 828-6470. We’d love to have a complete roster.
Spoiler alert! If you want to try your hand at identifying the faculty in this photo — courtesy of Richard Glennon, chairman of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry – read no further until you’ve tested yourself. We’re about to give away some of the IDs.
Who said pharmacists can’t party? If you have a similar photo from years gone by stashed in your desk, please allow us to make a copy. The Faculty Name Game could become a tradition.
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Here, just a few of the reminiscences and comments overheard at the reunion:
Marvin Boots (No. 1 in the photo), who arrived at the school in 1966, “recruited a young fellow named Richard Glennon (No. 14). I would buy dry ice on the way to work for distillation … I am pleased to see progress, including in the area Bill Barr (No. 21) discussed at great length.”
Somebody suggested Bill Soine might like to make remarks, to which he responded, “You know chemists can’t communicate!”
Susanna Wu-Pong, director of the program, encouraged him. “Bill, you don’t want to say anything?”
“I just said it!” Soine retorted.
Peter Byron commented, “Bill Barr did a great and eloquent job of describing MCV … or VCU … or whatever it happens to be.”
Soine, seeing Tom Reinders (No. 17) in the photo, remarked, “Tom, you were really dapper in those days!”
Harold Smith (No. 2), pointing at a particular face in the photo, asked, “Who was that? He used to fly gliders. And he used to do real estate!”
Byron, speaking to Reinders while pointing to Reinders’ and Gary Manley’s (No. 5) photos: “You look like a pair of mafia hit men.”
“How’s Lucy Harvie (No. 6)?” asked Mohamadi Sarkar. “She still has an office on the fifth floor,” was the response.
“Does she still have the plants?”
Reinders on Glennon: “We shared an office for a year. He smoked me out of my office.”
Malgorzata Dukat, as an aside: “He made those foul-smelling chemicals.”
Glennon: “Well, it worked, didn’t it? You moved!”
And finally, Glennon to Smith, who was perusing the photograph: “Wait, this is YOU?? What the [heck] happened to your hair?!”
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