Class Notes
1959 Ted Gladson, bs, of Naperville, is president emeritus of Gladson Interactive, which he established in 1971. The company provides digital product databases to the pharmacy industry and has designed more than 5,000 independent pharmacies. Gladson retired after selling the company in 2005. 1960 Michael Ellman, bs, md ’64, of Wilmette, is a retired professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. In his spare time, Ellman enjoys taking classes and reminisces fondly on his days at COP. “My pharmacy degree kept me in good stead during the rest of my career in medicine,” says Ellman. He resides with his wife, Roberta.
of Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacotherapy and Clinical Drug Investigation. Piepho’s professional honors include outstanding teaching awards from the University of Nebraska College of Pharmacy, the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and the UMKC School of Pharmacy. He has also been the recipient of the ACCP Nathaniel T. Kwit Memorial Distinguished Service Award. This year, Piepho is the recipient of the Bowl of Hygeia Award from the Missouri Pharmacy Association. Established in 1958, Bowl of Hygeia Award recognizes pharmacists who possess outstanding records of civic leadership and encourages pharmacists to take active roles in community affairs. It is considered the profession’s most prestigious award. 1970 John Landa, bs, of Wheaton, recently retired from his position as a A Picture of Health pharmacist at Dominick’s. He resides with his wife, Linda.
Eugene Frank
1960 Eugene Frank, bs, ms ’71, phd ’72 las, of Highland Park, is senior vice president of sales and marketing with Raani Corporation, a cosmetics contract manufacturing/private-label company located in Bedford Park. Frank, who considers former COP professor Fred Siegel, phd ’55, a mentor, originally planned to pursue a career in research and development in pharmaceuticals. He then gained entrée to the cosmetics industry in 1972 through a colleague and has enjoyed working in the field ever since. “As long as you’re young,” Frank advises fellow alumni, “don’t pigeonhole yourself. There are lots of opportunities out there for people in pharmacy.” 1965 Bob Piepho, bs, of Raymore, Missouri, is a professor of pharmacology in the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), having just recently retired as dean of the School of Pharmacy. He is currently a member of the board of regents and past president of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP). Piepho is the first nonphysician selected to serve on the ACCP. He is also a reviewer for the Journal
Despite this, Flores, who serves on the COP Alumni Board, has managed to keep herself busy. She and her husband, Jose, own an assisted living business in southwestern Wisconsin, and she is active in the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Chicago and the Federation of FilipinoAmerican Chambers of Commerce. In the spring, she was featured in a cover story in the Februrary 2010 edition of Via Times, a local Filipino-American newspaper. 1977 Steven Zielinski, bs, of Belvidere, works as central regional director for SUNRx. In this position, he assists safety-net organizations with maximizing the potential of the 340B federal drug discount program for savings and revenue generation. 1978 Judy (Sparesus) Lubinski, bs, bs ’75 las, of Clarendon Hills, manages the Adventist GlenOaks Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy in Glendale Heights. She and her husband and Steve, bs, have two children who hold degrees in geology and physics, and three grandchildren.
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Kerry Buckingham, CGH Pharmacist with his wife 1975 Kerry Buckingham, bs, of Sterling, newborn inMedical 1986. Center. is a staffand pharmacist at CGH He enjoys the variety of duties that his position affords, as well as interacting with fellow health care providers at the hospital. Kerry and his wife, Kathleen, have four children, two presently in college and two having graduated.
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1975 Stephan Munson, bs, of Sterling, opened The Medicine Shoppe ten years ago after years of service in both hospital and multispecialty group settings. He and his wife, Melody (Hamann), bs ’80, who worked as a clinical pharmacist for 30 years, have four children. 1977 Cindy Flores, bs, of Chicago, closed her retail shop, Cindy’s Pharmacy, in 2008.
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Tammi Marron
1984 Tami (Klemmer) Marron, bs, of Chicago, returned to COP this fall to audit the principles of drug action and therapeutics I class. In 2008, Marron left her position as pharmacy operations manager at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center to help her two daughters transition to high school. In September, she took on a part-time position at a small pharmacy in Chicago Heights. Marron, who also holds an MBA from DePaul University, returned to COP to strengthen her clinical skills while considering pursuit of a doctorate degree. “I’m having a ball,” says Marron of her return to COP. “It’s intellectually stimulating and eye-opening to see how many interesting things are going on here.”