{"id":4043,"date":"2020-03-24T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2020-04-03T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:43:45","slug":"anna-f-clancy-e-grace-lotz-early-women-graduates-school-of-pharmacy-class-of-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=4043","title":{"rendered":"Anna F. Clancy & E. Grace Lotz: Early Women Graduates, School of Pharmacy, Class of 1906"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy traces its history back to 1841 with the foundation of the Maryland College of Pharmacy (MCP).\u00a0 The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) formed its own department of Pharmacy in 1882.\u00a0 In 1904 the MCP and the UMSOM\u2019s pharmacy department merged to form the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (UMSOP).\u00a0 The first woman to graduate from the MCP was Dr. Lady Mary Johnson in 1898, because of the intertwined history of the MCP and UMSOP she is celebrated as the first woman graduate of the School of Pharmacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anna Francis Clancy and Elizabeth Grace Lotz, received their degree in Pharmacy in 1906, thus becoming the first woman graduates of the new UMSOP.\u00a0 According to the Terra Mariae <\/em>Yearbook of 1906 the two women were close friends.\u00a0 Clancy even worked at Lotz\u2019 family store during their senior year.\u00a0 There is little evidence of their time at the school; however, the yearbook gives some hints as to their treatment or standing with fellow male students.\u00a0 The Yearbook superlatives for both girls mentions potential interest by a \u201cbachelor professor,\u201d a concern never expressed before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Anna Francis Clancy graduation photograph from School of Pharmacy Class of 1906 from the Terra Mariae Yearbook.<\/p><\/div>\n

Anna Francis Clancy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna Francis Clancy was from Genesee, PA.\u00a0 Following graduation, she moved to Buffalo, New York where she was granted her druggist license.\u00a0 According to an article on the history of women pharmacists at the University of Maryland in The Pharmaceutical Era <\/em>of 1912, Clancy was \u201cstill with the same firm and [was] giving such great satisfaction to her employer that he says he would never be without a lady in his store.\u201d \u00a0It appears that Anna Francis Clancy was an excellent representative of the school and women pharmacists.<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Grace Lotz graduation photograph from School of Pharmacy Class of 1906 from the Terra Mariae Yearbook.<\/p><\/div>\n

Elizabeth Grace Lotz <\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Elizabeth Grace Lotz was born and raised in Baltimore Maryland.\u00a0 Her father owned the William H. Lotz Store on Warner and Conway Streets in Baltimore; as a result, E. Grace Lotz showed an early interest in pharmacy.\u00a0 Lotz earned the first General Prize from the School of Pharmacy at graduation.\u00a0 Throughout her career, Lotz served as the druggist at Union Memorial Hospital, taught pharmacy to nurses at the schools of nursing in the city, and taught chemistry at the Women\u2019s Medical College of Baltimore.\u00a0 Dr. Lotz married Louis Kahler.\u00a0 Dr. Lotz Kahler passed away in 1967.<\/p>\n

Dr. Lotz was a woman leader in pharmacy.\u00a0 In addition to her academic and professional work, she served as the first honorary president of the Women\u2019s Auxiliary of the Maryland Pharmaceutical Association.\u00a0 The 1912 Pharmaceutical Era <\/em>had the following to say about Dr. Lotz Kahler:<\/p>\n

\u201cMiss Lotz is an example of what a woman can ‘be in pharmacy, as she has been extremely successful both as a teacher and as a pharmacist. While she considers the presence of a woman necessary to the conduction of every good, up-to-date drug store, she does not feel that women should take the place of men in this business, but that the two should work together, as there are many things in this profession for which women are better adapted than men, and vice versa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clancy and Lotz represent trailblazers for other women in the school of pharmacy.\u00a0 Together with other notable graduates like Dr. B. Olive Cole they opened doorways for women to successfully complete their degree in Pharmacy.\u00a0 Women in the School of Pharmacy remained a minority until the 1980s when they began to equal or outnumber male students.\u00a0 This trend mimics the national trend according to a study by pharmacy students Brittany and Catherine Botescu studying the history of women in pharmacy and analyzing data from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.<\/p>\n

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Percentages of Women School of Pharmacy graduates. From study by Catherine and Brittany Botescu, 2019.<\/p><\/div>\n

References:<\/sub><\/p>\n

Botescu, C. and B. Botescu. (2019). \u201cAn Assessment of Female Representation Among Maryland Pharmacy.\u201d Study for Pharmacy Coursework, University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy.<\/sub><\/p>\n

Terra Mariae.<\/em> (1906). Retrieved from: http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10713\/2462<\/a><\/sub><\/p>\n

Wallace, E.G. (1912). \u201cWomen in Pharmacy (Addenda).\u201d The Pharmaceutical Era.<\/em> D.O. Haynes, New York: 774-777. Retrieved from: https:\/\/catalog.hathitrust.org\/Record\/000502820<\/a><\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anna Francis Clancy and Elizabeth Grace Lotz, received their degree in Pharmacy in 1906, thus becoming the first woman graduates of the new UMSOP.\u00a0 According to the Terra Mariae Yearbook of 1906 the two women were close friends.\u00a0 Clancy even worked at Lotz\u2019 family store during their senior year.\u00a0 There is little evidence of their time at the school; however, the yearbook gives some hints as to their treatment or standing with fellow male students.\u00a0 The Yearbook superlatives for both girls mentions potential interest by a \u201cbachelor professor,\u201d a concern never expressed before. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,13],"tags":[196,189,194],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-collections","category-pharmacy","tag-class-of-1906","tag-umbsop","tag-womens-history-month-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}