One of the most consequential initiatives to come out to the CPA’s annual meeting in 1920 was the establishment of a Connecticut school of pharmacy. The idea had been kicking around since at least 1879, but it was not until after World War 1 that official pharmacy classes were taught in Connecticut, first in the home of George Rapport, a member of the Board of Pharmacy and president of the CPA. But in 1921, things started to come together and on October 20, 1925, the Connecticut College of Pharmacy opened at 150 York Street in New Haven: 88 high school graduates were accepted as students in the first year. At the college’s inauguration ceremonies, CPA president Patrick Marvin said that “The pharmacists of the future will be college trained, and all men who are keen observers can see that at last, Pharmacy is coming into its own.” CPA would remain a driving force behind the Connecticut College of Pharmacy until July 1, 1940, when the college was integrated into the University of Connecticut, but stayed in New Haven. In 1949, CPA sponsored and the assembly passed a bill appropriating funds for the erection of a new building for the School of Pharmacy in the UConn campus at Storrs, which opened in September of 1950.
