Childhood and education; Undergraduate years at UW; World War II and Army service; Badger Village; School of Pharmacy at UW after World War II; Physical research movement in pharmacy of 1940s and 1950s; Dale Wurster; Takeru Higuchi; Louis Busse; Graduate education at UW; Employment at Merck Company; Joining the pharmacy faculty at UW; Teaching; Pharmacy faculty; Pharmacy Dean Arthur Uhl; Changes in pharmaceutical certification and education; Food and Drug Administration; State Board of Pharmacy in Wisconsin; Importance of teaching; National Industrial Pharmacy Research Conferences; Department of Health Sciences; Deanship of School of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago; Deanship of School of Pharmacy, UW; Clinical education faculty and Tenure-track faculty; Probation of School of Pharmacy; Sonderegger Research Center; Irving Shain; Donna Shalala; Rennebohm Hall.