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OBSERVATIONS
FROM THE SIDELINES
By Kathryn H a ll Bogle
Young, Black and looking for a
career?
Careers for women might well in
clude the one o f being a phar
macists, suggests Geraldine M c
Connell Christian.
Mrs. Christian bases her recom
mendation on the 25 years plus o f
time, and the variety of experience,
she had had in this profession. A
good share o f that time she has
practiced here in Portland.
Mrs. Christian entered the white
male dominated field o f pharmacy
soon after her graduation from the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
All o f her earlier education had been
in Denver, her birthplace. In
childhood she had chosen to follow
in the path blazed by two Black
male pharmacists she admired. They
encouraged the young woman to
study toward this goal.
For a Black female it was not easy
to find a job very readily after
graduation. First there was the state
examination; next was the required
one-year apprenticeship in a drug
store under supervision; then to find
a w illing employer. The latter was
like looking fo r the proverbial
needle in a haystack.
It was in I9 5 l that the hopeful
new pharmacist decided to search
among federal listings o f job
openings, trusting that chances o f
her being hired would be better.
They did prove better. There was an
opening with the U.S. A rm y
Chemical Corps at their Rocky
Mountain Arsenal in Colorado.
At the arsenal, the Chemical
Corps operated an in firm a ry and
two busy First Aid stations to take
care o f ill or injured Army person
nel. Though there was no declared
war at the time, the Corps was
engaged in manufacturing nerve gas
and mustard gas. The pharmacy was
a necessity.
Mrs. Christian stayed on the job
four years. During this time she also
married and became the mother of a
small son. Increasingly, however,
she felt it wise to remove herself
from the proximity o f the dangerous
gasses. Fortunately her husband,
Conrad M cConnell, also a phar
macist, was working. Their
situation allowed the wife and
mother the convenience o f giving
her full time to these roles and she
left the Chemical Corps.
The couple longed for a home
"somewhere on the Pacific Coast” ,
Mrs. Christian said. “ We started
•out believing we could be happy
anywhere from San Diego to Seat
tle. W'e wrote letters to Urban
League offices asking questions im
portant to us, like: ‘Job openings in
G e ra ld in e C h ris tia n : B e h in d th e c o u n te r o f th e m o d e rn p h a ra m a c y .
(P h o to : R ic h a rd J . B r o w n )
your city? What about housing?
W'hat is the racial climate? Answers
were less than defin itive fo r us.
In the end we had to go to see for
ourselves.
“ We toured along the coast and
fell in love with the Northwest. We
settled on P ortland. W ithin fo u r
days o f our locating here my
husband found a jo b w ith the
Veterans’ Administration. This was
in 1957. He stayed with the VA for a
while, but he was offered a bigger
job with more responsibility (and
money) as head o f the pharmacy at
St. Vincent Hospital. He stayed 16
years there.
“ Conrad’ s first job was vacant,”
Mrs. Christian continued. “ I knew
about it. I quickly applied fo r it —
and they hired me.
“ The VA jo b was d ifferent for
me. It was for an out-patient clinic
in a downtown location. W'e served
veterans in numbers. In those days a
pharmacist did more than count out
pills and capsules. We had to make
up many o f our prescriptions from
doctors’ individual orders.
“ I made cough syrups by the half
gallon. I mixed powders fo r cap
sules. I made ointments by formula
and we used a lot o f bulk
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M artin Turner was recently
awarded
the
O utstanding
Achievement Award granted to
the member o f the Seattle Chapter
o f the N ational Association o f
Black Accountants who has excelled
wihin the professioi .
A native o f P ortland, Turner
graduated from Jefferson High
School and earned a Bachelor’ s
degree in Business A dm inistration
from the University o f Portland. He
received a Master o f Business A d
m inistration in Taxation from the
University o f Southern California.
Upon graduation he was em
ployed by the Internal Revenue Ser
vice as revenue agent. Through
dediction and professional growth
M artin was recently promoted to a
level o f GS-14 in the Appeals De
partment. He has recently been ac-
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From the Front Door
By Tom Boothe
I
From the Front Door, someone once asked me what was the most valuable
elements on earth. After thinking for awhile I answered and said, Wisdom,
Knowledge and Understanding. He said what about Gold and Oil and other
precious stones and materials. I said without Wisdom, Knowledge and Un
derstanding, how would you know how to recognize them to develope them
to any degree of usability.
Most people today seem to emphasize the value of materials, and also the
value of Political recognition and all to often these persons wind up making a
fool of themselves, because they lack the wisdom to use the materials in
cluding money and political recognition wisely.
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medications to divide into smaller
bo ttlin g or packaging. 1 liked it
there and worked there for eleven
years.
“ There was a totally different ex
perience for me at Crestview Con
valescent hospital. This was a large
place and I was in charge o f the
pharmacy and one helper for me.
Here there were dosages fo r each
patient for a 24-hour period. Each
paiieni had to have detailed direc
tions for each medication supplied
by the nurses how to administer the
medication in each case. I enjoyed
all that.
“ When I became a widowed per
son, I went back to the VA clinic-
situation and stayed for five years.
“ Being a pharm acist has its
credits, certainly. Thorugh phar
macy is still male-dominated, there
is equal pay for equal hours, and the
same benefits accrue fo r men and
women a lik e ,” M rs. C hristian
pointed out.
“ To prepare fo r a career in
pharmacy, a student should have
high school m ath, chem istry,
physics and biology -- and good legs
and feet!” she added with a laugh.
“ I do not want to work a full time
week anymore now, so I ’ m now
working on a part-tim e contingent
basis. Our pharmacy is located in a
medical building that provides o f
fice space fo r a great many
physicians.
“ Pressures fo r me are lessened
with this arrangement. I have time
to attend the pharmacy seminars
and other professional gatherings to
keep up w ith new trends and
regulations. Some are required by
Oregon law to m aintain licensed
standing. Or, I can rest or travel.”
Mrs. Christian is a pharmacist for
the N o rth ru p M edical Center
Pharmacy in the Northrup Medical
B uilding in Northwest P ortland.
Her son, a political reporter for the
Oregon Journal, is Conrad (Pete)
McConnell, Jr.
Most people today try to seek out money, and it evades most people; others
find it and spend it foolishly and wind up right back where they started.
Others seek Political recognition and it evades most people; others find it and
they don't have the wisdom to manage it and it either destroys them im
mediately or they become slaves to the system, and they are destroyed in the
end.
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and understanding as they spend in the search for money and material
wealth, they would be richer by a hundred fold.
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M artin is a member o f the AIC-
PA, C a lifo rn ia and Washington
State Society o f C e rtifie d Public
Accountants.
He is married to Bonita Turner, a
manager w ith IB M and has two
daughters, Kristine and Michelle. In
his leisure time he enjoys playing
tennis and reading. He is the son of
Mr. And Mrs. George W. Jordan of
Portland.
It isn't how much you have, as much as it is how well you manage what you
have; and how well you are able to manage what you have it directly related
to how much wisdom, knowledge and understanding you have.
You can have anything you know how to get. You can do anything you know
how to do. But, you cannot have those things you do not know how to get.
You cannot do things you do not know how to do. But, you can learn if you
have a positive attitude. Most people use less than ten percent of their men
tal capabilities. Let's go after the ninety percent that is still out there.
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