Dean’s chair established: “It is truly an honor …”
School of Pharmacy Dean Victor Yanchick has been appointed to the Archie O. McCalley Dean’s Chair, effective as of Jan. 1.
The university’s Board of Visitors approved the appointment in December. In a letter to the dean, VCU President Michael Rao said, “In awarding you this endowed chair, the Board and I, your professional peers and your colleagues at VCU are pleased to recognize your exemplary contributions to teaching, research and public service.
“We are also confident of your ability to remain highly productive throughout your academic career and of your continued commitment to excellence and ensuring student success. … It is truly an honor to serve VCU with a colleague of your accomplishment and stature.”
The endowed chair is named for Archie Owens McCalley of Richmond, who earned his B.S. degree from MCV School of Pharmacy in 1927. A member of the professional pharmacy fraternity Phi Delta Chi and former owner of People’s Drug Store in Fulton, McCalley died in 1999 at age 93. In 2005, his widow, Beulah Binns McCalley, also died at age 93. The endowed chair is the result of an unrestricted gift of $1.2 million from the McCalley estate to the School of Pharmacy.
If you don’t see the dean to congratulate him … that’s because he’s off to Tucson, Ariz., next week for the Pharmacy Deans Research Group, an annual colloquium in which about 20 pharmacy deans from across the country discuss research and academic issues. And the first week in February, AACP’s immediate past president will represent the School of Pharmacy (along with a number of faculty members) at the 2010 Interim Meeting in Arlington. The dean’s duties there will include moderating a working lunch and presenting a brief, “Curriculum Summit Takeaways,” at AACP’s third annual CEO Dean’s Retreat.
Photo courtesy of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
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