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Clapinski On 15 April, Wieslaw Gareth (“Gaz”) Clapinski,
MRPharmS, aged 57, of Inglewood, Bury Bank, Meaford, Stone, Staffordshire
ST15 0QA.
Mr Clapinski registered in 1971. He was a former chairman of the National
Pharmaceutical Association and former secretary of Stoke-on-Trent Local
Pharmaceutical Committee. He was secretary of the local organising committee
for the British Pharmaceutical Conference held at Keele, Staffordshire,
in 1989.
Flajsner On 10 March, Wendy Jill Flajsner (née Cuncliffe), MRPharmS,
aged 44, of Algar House, Algar Road, Fersfield, Diss, Norfolk IP22 2BQ.
Mrs Flajsner registered in 1984.
Griffin On 12 March, Margaret Joyce Griffin, MRPharmS, aged 91, of Lugano,
2 Westwood Avenue, Ferndown, Wimborne, Dorset BH22 9HN. Miss Griffin
registered in 1940.
Holton On 21 February, Susan Mary Holton, MRPharmS, née Whitman,
aged 55, of Queens Gardens, 17 Castle Street, Wallingford, Oxfordshire
OX10 8DW. Mrs Holton registered in 1974.
Khosla On 20 February, Sarv Mitter Khosla, MRPharmS, aged 70, of 7 Crown
Terrace, Portgordon, Buckie, Banffshire AB56 5RJ. Mr Khosla registered
in 1961.
Osbourne On 25 February, Olive Mary Osbourne, MRPharmS, née Grierson,
aged 73, of 35 Mill Lane, Kingsthorpe, Northampton NN2 6RQ. Mrs Osbourne
registered in 1955.
Walsh On 9 March, Gwendoline Mary Walsh (née Dowding), MRPharmS,
aged 80, of 1 Maple Grove, Langwood Gardens, Watford, Hertfordshire WD17
4JZ. Mrs Walsh registered in 1948.
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Tribute
Binns In a
tribute to the late William
Wright Binns (PJ, 14 April, p441),
ROGER WOODFORD writes:
Greece had its Golden Age, France its Belle
Epoque and the Portsmouth School of Pharmacy its two memorable decades
of staff pantomimes (the early 1960s to the early 1980s). During that
time Bill Binns and I wrote a series of offerings exposing the interesting,
intriguing and downright sordid activities of our students, to the
amusement of some and discomfiture of others. Those pantomimes included “The
man from Ucal”, “Offwhite and the seven duffs”, “Oh,
cocoa butter!”, “Malice in Blundenland” and many
more. Perhaps the most novel was “The vulgar Bootsmen”,
recognising the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution and featuring
Rasputum the mad monk, Tsar Petridish, his beautiful daughter Anaesthesia
and sundry revolting students.
Former Portsmouth folks will remember the drunken, unwashed rabble
who howled and gesticulated at the lecturers as they strutted their
stuff
upon the stage — and those were just the staff wives, although
the students really behaved little better. What nicer way to finish the
Christmas term than a convivial evening of student and staff pantomimes,
a subsidised bar, pretty girls and the principal lecturer in pharmacognosy
singing along at the piano?
Bill now rejoins the late Philip Watson (a Mad Hatter par excellence)
and Eric Adams (a redoubtable pantomime fairy). Rest easy, gentlemen,
for we shall never see your like again. Tell you what, Bill — see
if you can get some of the old gang together in a Better Place. Then,
if the angels want pantomimes (and they let me in as well), we will jolly
well give them pantomimes. |
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