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Class Notes: The happenings of your classmates
Leo Basch (Janet Basch), Class of ’95, is currently employed
by Walgreens in Las Vegas, NV. In 2004, he was appointed to
the Nevada Board of Pharmacy where he serves as treasurer.
Janet and Leo enjoy traveling in their motor home visiting
many National Parks and trail riding on their four-wheelers.
There are lots of great trails in southern Nevada and southern
Utah, said Leo.
A WWII veteran, Lyle Q. Crandall, ’48, came to the College
of Pharmacy following the war and worked nights delivering
ice for the Union Pacific Railroad. A resident of Thatcher, AZ,
the 86-year-old Crandall is the patriarch of the Thatcher Stake
for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. About 12
years ago, he and his wife served a mission for the church in
England. Crandall’s son, Steve, is also a pharmacist.
Timothy P. Stratton, Ph.D., BCPS, FAPhA, ’80, recently
completed his second-year of teaching at the University
of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, Duluth, where the
program has been expanded. The specific intent of the
Duluth program is to prepare pharmacists to practice in
rural communities. Prior to accepting the Duluth position,
he taught for 10 and a half years in the School of Pharmacy
and Allied Health Sciences at the University of Montana in
Missoula. “Although my training is in the area of pharmacy
administration, because of my ongoing work as a relief
pharmacist in Alaska, I am now teaching pharmaceutical care
courses to first-professional-year students and an elective
pharmacy ethics course to P2’s and P3’s.” He was voted
Professor of the Year by Duluth’s Class of 2008 last year,
attained his BCPS recognition this past fall (not bad for a BStrained
pharmacist circa 1980, he said), and was just named
a Fellow of the American Pharmacists’ Association. The
award was presented to Stratton during the APhA meeting in
March in San Francisco.
John E. Tilley, a ’77, was recently elected president-elect of
the National Community Pharmacists Association. Following
graduation, Tilley went to work for Zweber Apothecary in
Downey, California. Seven years later, he purchased all three
Zweber pharmacies. In 2001, he opened his first Super Rx
pharmacy in a Stater Bros. Food Market. Four years later, he
owned 16 Super Rx pharmacies, which he sold to Stater
Bros. He currently owns four pharmacies with plans for
expansion.
Kendall Lee Ballard, ’57, Rexburg, ID. Ballard began his career
at a drug store in his hometown of Burley, ID, as a stock boy,
he said. “I stayed in Burley until 1961 when I moved with my
family to St. Anthony, ID, where I worked a few years, then to
Rexburg and back to St. Anthony. I retired in 2005. I still drop
in the store a couple of days a week,” Ballard said. “I live in
Hibbard and have six children – three boys and three girls.
We now have 34 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. I
have worked in the Boy Scouts program for many years and
was awarded a Silver Beaver in 1978. In 1997, I traveled to
Orlando, Florida to be awarded the Silver Antelope from the
Boy Scouts of America. My wife passed in December, 2005.”
John Crawford, ’56, Boise, ID. “I have wonderful memories of
the ISU College of Pharmacy,” he said. “The professors were
always interested in seeing students succeed, and they were
always accessible.” While attending pharmacy school, he and
his wife, Ruth, were married and two children were born.
“Three of my daughters attended ISU – Connie Christofferson
is a staff pharmacist at ShopKo in Boise, Stacie Shouse works
for Pioneer Title in Pocatello and Mary Wardell is a paralegal
in Salt Lake City,” he said. “My son-in-law, John Christofferson
is an ISU graduate as are both his parents. Jill Christofferson is
playing soccer for ISU and is a junior.” Crawford and alumus,
Ralph Smith, were partners in a pharmacy for 30-years.
Today, Crawford enjoys playing golf, spending time with his
grandchildren and traveling with his wife, Ruth.
“Thanks to ISU for the great education and great profession
of pharmacy,” Crawford said.
Robert Allen Parsons, ’51, Boise, ID, continues to work as a
pharmacist in Treasure Valley. “Even after 55 years, I still enjoy
it,” he said.
Jack Lyman Walker, ’55, of Grand Junction, CO, was the
owner of Walker Drug Company for 48 years where he
operated stores in Utah and Colorado. His daughter, Patty,
is a pharmacist. For several years, Parsons served as the
director of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores
and is a member of the NCPA, and Colorado and Utah
Pharmaceutical Associations.
The Idaho Board of Pharmacy recently honored six Idaho
State University alumni as 50-year pharmacists. They include,
James Doss, ’54, Las Vegas, NV; Robert Parsons, ’51, Boise,
ID; Clarence Tanaka, ’55, Twin Falls, ID; John Crawford, ’56,
Boise, ID; Jack Walker, ’55, Grand Junction, CO and Robert
Smith, ’56, Nampa, ID.
Send us a note regarding your career, family and life
since graduating from ISU Collge of Pharmacy. Plese send
Class Notes to: Pharmacy Bulletin - attn: Editor, Box 8288,
Pocatello, ID 83209-8288 or editor@pharmacy.isu.edu.
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