The Editor's Page

Rufus A. Lyman

doi:10.5688/ajpe75119

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You are now reading the anlage of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. It came about in this way. For a long time there has been a feeling that the Proceedings did not satisfy the needs of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. I suppose this happens in the life of every organization. Well do I remember back in 1912 when it happened to the American Pharmaceutical Association. The activities of that organization became so numerous and so diversified that some other means of communication than the Proceedings was needed. The Journal was born. Pharmaceutical education has come to be one of the major fields of professional education. We have not only been asked to contribute something creative to the field of professional education, but we are expected to contribute our share to the field of general education, on all its levels, as well. Such service cannot be rendered by meeting together and thinking together once a year. The Journal will enable us to do that four times a year and let us hope that in the not too distant future, it may be still more frequent.

[Dr. Lyman's editorial is reprinted in its entirety in the PDF version at the following link: http://www.ajpe.org/aj7501/aj750119/aj750119.pdf.]