Hello and welcome to the annual awards convocation and white coat ceremony. It is so great to see all of you here. My name is Janet Seratte and I am the President of the Southwestern Pharmacy Association. On Behalf of SWPhA and the College of Pharmacy, I would like to thank all of you for coming today. For some of us, we never thought today would get here fast enough. The three years we have been here together has flown by. For those of you just completing your first year, it will seem like rotations are so far away and that they are NEVER going get here. But they do. And along the way you are going to learn a lot of things not only about drugs and MOA, but about yourself and your professors.

I jotted down a few important things my classmates I have learned along the way:

• It is not the end of the world if you make a C in a class. Pharmacy school grades are NOT like other grades.
  
• If you do not pass a class, it is not the end of the world. You have 2 more chances. Not that anyone ever fails at SWOSU. But just an example: Last Spring there was a possibility that you could take Dr. Ortega 9 times…..3 Biomed, 3 for MedChem I and 3 for MedChem 2… But that is in the past now that Dr. Ortega is retiring. Dr. Ortega, aren’t you glad you didn’t have ME 9 times?

• It is okay for Scottish men to wear skirts and by the way Dr. Long is wearing the robe again…….we all missed it while it was out of commission.
  
• Other quick things, Dr. Pray really does teach you gas facts, Dr. Ramos really does have Lysol in his office, Dr. Deimling really does do right minus wrong True/False questions and do not think your class will be the one to get him to change….. If you do not know Mickey Mouse’s Birthday (Nov 18) or the name KOOK on her Mickey Mouse ruler you will not get any extra credit points in Dr. Prince’s class.

• Never yawn in Dr. Van Dusen’s class or wear Capri’s to Lab V…..

Okay I could go on forever, but there are just some things you will have to discover on your own.

Enjoy it now because the real working world will be here before you know it.

At this time I would like to invite Dean Bergman to begin the Awards portion of today.

Southwestern Pharmacy Alumni Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 702
Weatherford, OK 73096
E-Mail: swpharmacy@swosu.edu

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