This spring SNPhA volunteered with the national Kidney foundation which was a great experience for all who attended. We also held a food and clothing collection for a St. Louis organization. The Valentines day candy-gram sale was successful. Thanks everyone that received or bought some for someone! Several SNPha members recently attended the regional conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. Everyone had a great time and enjoyed networking and meeting other pharmacy students.

Future events include elections, which are coming up on April 17th. Also, our yearly banquet will be held on April 20th, it is open to everyone to attend. Cost is $15 per person.

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SRC voting members.

2011—2012

Class of 2012:

Cody Sandusky

Class of 2013:

Ryan Birk

Class of 2014:

Savanna Mattingly

Class of 2015:

Johnny Truong

APhA-ASP:

Ryan Birk

Chis Selby

SSHP:

Brice Foose

Kelcey Correll

NCPA:

Andrew Schwierjohn

Kristie Reese

ASCP:

Emily Papolczy

SNPhA:

Serge E.C. Anato Gold Uche

Rho Chi:

Brice Foose Christina Hayes

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The purpose of the SRC newsletter is to keep student pharmacists

informed of all student organization activities and opportunities.

SSHP

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Rho Chi hosted a soup fundraiser on February 2nd and was able to donate half of the proceeds to the local soup kitchen. This semester, we have also managed to obtain a Rho Chi banner with our grant money through Kimmel. Members nominated and voted on the Rho Chi Faculty Achievement Award

this semester. Congratulations to Dr. Stacey Thacker for winning this award! Currently, we are planning on volunteering an afternoon in April at a local soup kitchen as well as preparing for the Rho Chi ceremony for the class of 2014.

SSHP hosted a credentialing board on February 2nd where several faculty members talked about their various board certifications. March was a busy month for our chapter starting off with legislative day on March 7th. SIUE was able to send 20 students to this event. The faculty auction was held on March 15th. Thank you to all of the students that participated and the faculty that donated! Additionally, the ICHP spring meeting was held in Bloom-ington, IL on March 23rd and 24th. SSHP hosted a speaker, Desi Kotis, a director at Northwestern hospital in Chicago, on March 27th. GenerationRx presentations were March 30th at Pontiac Junior High School where students educated 7th and 8th graders on prescription drug abuse. Elections will be held April 10th with many positions open. Good luck to all of the incoming executive members and to all students in their final few weeks of the semester!

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This semester we held a speakers series, “Staying relevant: The future innovations of independent pharma-

cy.” On February 7th, McKesson had an ownership panel consisting of 2 local independent pharmacy own-

ers and 1 manager in a long term care pharmacy. They discussed their experiences of ownership and how

they started their pharmacies. On March 22nd, we had another session with Mike Bollinger from Cardinal

Health. He discussed the logistics of buying and selling an independent pharmacy. The last speaker for

the series, JoEllen Miller, will be coming on April 12th. Elections for executive offices will be held prior to

her presentation.

NCPA has taken charge of coordinating the school of pharmacy’s presence at the SIUe Employee Benefit

Fair on April 26th. We are working with ASCP, SSHP, and faculty to provide File of Life, Brown Bag

counseling sessions, osteoporosis screenings, and medication disposal for the employees of SIUe. We are

excited to provide these services and hope the event is a success.

Kristie Rees– NCPA President

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ASCP

The ASCP Chapter recently received a Meridian Society Grant to co-develop a Hospice Volunteer Training Program. This will be a great opportunity to get involved in the community and help out a well deserving program. ASCP also sponsored a File of Life event at the Edwardsville Schnucks Pharmacy on March 16, 2012. The event was successful by performing 5 complete File of Life cards and providing 15 cards to other interested patients. ASCP would like to thank Dr. Teri Kerr and all those who volunteered to help! ASCP is having a spring clothing sale during the month of March to raise funds for future community projects. See Roxane Spann if you are interested in ordering a tote bag, hoodie, or V-neck pull over. Various colors are available and each will be embroidered with the SIUE School of Pharmacy logo. The deadline for ordering is March 23. Elections for ASCP will be held on April 3rd. We are looking for interested P1s and P2s to run for of-fice and take a leadership role in the future of ASCP. Mark your calendar for the ASCP Spring Barbeque which will be held April 24 during common hour. Expect the food to be delicious and the weather to be beautiful!

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APhA

APhA has had a very busy spring semester. We kicked it off

with another very successful Diabetes Symposium. It was

held in the Morris University Center on campus and we

reached over 200 people in the community at this event.

We have also continued to inform the community about

medications and pharmacists with presentations present-

ed by the Medication Awareness Program.

ASP also got a great start on two brand new events to the

chapter. The first was a homeless health clinic in collabo-

ration with medical students in Springfield, IL This was

a great start to Project CHANCE and we hope to continue to

work with the medical students to include the pharmacy

students in the health clinic even more. In addition, Project

Heart hosted its first Ladies Night Out event in the Morris

University Center. We had a great turn out at the event

and many area businesses participated. We hope to

make this an annual event and get an even better turn

out next year!

Several members of ASP also had the opportunity to

travel to New Orleans, to the APhA Annual Meeting.

At this meeting our chapter received 1st runner up in

the AA division for chapter achievement! It was a great

honor to be recognized nationally as a successful chap-

ter and we would like to thank everyone who puts their

hard work into making ASP so successful each year.

Most recently, Operation OTC hosted an event at Buf-

falo Wild Wings. Those who attended saw Ryan Birk

dominate Dr. Jessica Kerr in the wing eating contest.

Everyone is looking forward to seeing her sport the

trendy pink hair and pink panther costume! Student

members, Chris Walters, Derek Smith, and Harry

Zollars in addition to Dr.Hecht also completed the

Blazing Challenge which was a spectacle for all in at-

tendance. Be on the lookout for information on our

upcoming trip to Six Flags! Mallory Klein

(maklein@siue.edu) will be sending the details soon.

Elections were held at our last ASP meeting so we will be welcoming a new executive board for the next school year. We would like to thank all of the executive members this year who helped make it another success-ful year for ASP. Our next meeting will be held April 24th during common hour. Hope to see you all there!

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Cardinal Tickets are NOW on sale! As the St. Louis Cardinals go for their 12th world championship in 2012, the Class of 2013 are selling tickets for April 17th at 7:15 PM as the St. Louis Cardinals take on the Cincinnati Reds. Tickets are only $25 each (includes a FREE hot dog and soda). Cash or checks made out to SIUE SOP class of 2013 will be accepted. Please contact Christina Ley (cchirby@siue.edu), Ryan Birk (ribirk@siue.edu), Sal Khon-daker (skhonda@siue.edu), or Laura Jeffers (ljeffer@siue.edu) for tickets. The Cardinals game and ticket sale is the class largest fundraisers, so please come out and enjoy a day at the ballpark. Thank you for supporting the Class of 2013!

The Class of 2014 is pleased to announce their up-coming events for the Spring 2012 Semester. The Class of 2014 will be hosting a Spaghetti Dinner on April 12th, 2012 as well as a Bag's Tournament at Big Daddy's in Edwardsville on April 20th, 2012. Please check your emails for details regarding the events, you wouldn't want to miss out! The Class of 2014 will also be hosting The 2nd Annual Pie Day during finals week. Raffle tickets will be sold for the chance to pie your favorite professors! Please come out and support our class at these awesome events! We hope to see you there!

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Class of 2015

During the year of 2011-2012, the Class of 2015 has done many events and plan to do much more. Beginning of the 2011-2012, school year, a class fundraiser was conducted by selling t-shirts with the cute saying, “Drugs are my Life”. At the end of this fund- raiser, the class managed to raise over $1000. A great start for the new school year. In February 2012, the class crated a new fundraiser to the school called e-Pharmony. This was a survey that was filled out by students and their answers were compared with other stu-dents in the school. Based on these comparisons, they were best “matched” with the person that had the most matched answers. This went overall well for the first time making over $100. In the future, the class is planning on hav-ing another fundraiser night at Cold Stone Creamery. Cold Stone has been nice enough to donate part of their profits for a specific night. Another fund-raiser event that is in the making is a Mother’s/Father’s Day t-shirt. We are now designing a t-shirt that can be sold as a gift for parents during the Mother/Father Day season.