Frank Chrzanowski:
CLASS OF 1959
St. Joseph Polish SchoolClass of 1959
Camden, NJ
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & ScienceClass of 1975
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & ScienceClass of 1968
Philadelphia, PA
St. Joseph High SchoolClass of 1963
Camden, NJ
Frank's Story
I attended St joe's Grammar, 1010 Liberty Street and graduated in 1959. Followed by SJHS from 1959 until 1963. I was active in sports, football and basketball until senior year. I then attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy from 1963 to 1968 and earned a BS in Pharmacy. The day after the last exams, I married Eileen Kennedy a classmate from SJHS. I worked one year as a pharmacist intern in Marlton NJ, and became a licensed P{pharmacist in PA and NJ. I then returned to PCP&S and earned an MS (1972) and PhD (1975) in Pharmaceutical Sciences. I used my pharmacist's licenses to work PT as a pharmacist while attending grad school FT. We had 2 sons Frank and Jeff before I finished my PhD work in 1974. Our third son David was born soon after I started my 2nd academic career as an Assistant Prof of Pharmacy at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy (MCP) in Boston.
After a disappointing year at MCP, I was hired by Northeastern University in Boston, Assist Prof again, teaching Pharmacy and enjoying it. The atmosphere at Northeastern was so much better than MCP. However, the first experience at MCP caused me to change my mind about an academic. Also Northeastern was a true University, with promotion based on research and publications and grants. The Northeastern Pharmacy Dept had no graduate program and it was through graduate students and their PhD research that academics created their publications and got their grants. With another uphill battle looming I decided that my career would best be fulfilled in the industry and not in academia. So after only 16 months in Boston, we moved to Marlon NJ after I accepted a position at McNeil Pharmaceutical in Fort Washington PA.
In 1976 I was hired as a Senior Scientist at McNeil Pharmaceutical in Fort Washington PA, and continued to work for this company in the Pharmaceutical Development Dept for 20 years. My experience and responsibilities grew over the years at McNeil and later at the merged Ortho-McNeil R&D company (RWJPRI). On my 20thwork anniversary I was down sized and began a new career as a consultant. Downsizing was a result of the then new generic substitution regulations and the expiration of a patent on Haldol(R) haloperidol, One of my first clients was a start-up "drug delivery" development company. (Drug delivery" is a catch-all phrase for novel dosage forms, and their novelty was 3-D printing. A starch binder solution containing a concentrated solution of drug was "printed" over a bed of powder, and this process was repeat5ed with a new layer of powder and more printing until the desired thickness and intended amount of the drug were added. The process was not dependable and after 4 years I faced downsizing again. THis time with no intent in returning to industry and only intending to actively buid a consulting business again.
I decided to go full effort as a consultant and even an expert witness in Pharma patent litigation, which I continue to do even after full retirement While fully employed I used my R.Ph. license PT in an independent pharmacy in Maple Sh...Expand for more
ade NJ. A night a week and alternate Saturdays. Just in case, I was keeping my license active. After the 2nd downsizing, I added PT work CVS and worked about 40% of a FT schedule, mostly in the summer months as a floated filling in where needed.
We lived in Marlton NJ most of our married life. Our sons attended St Joan of Arc grammar school and Cherokee HS. The oldest, Frank attended Ursinus College and Jefferson Med School, is married and is now a colo-rectal surgeon in Jacksonville. He and his wife have a daughter. Jeff, our second son, attended Carnegie Mellon U in Pittsburgh PA and the U of Virginia earning B E and M.E degrees. He's a computer hardware engineer, lives in San Diego, is married and has a daughter as well. He was on Jeopardy on the 19th and 20th of March 1998. David, our youngest attended Ursinus College and the U of Virginia and is an Ear, Nose, Throat and Facial plastics surgeon in Salem MA. He is married and his family consists of2 daughters and 2 sons.
Eileen and I were and continue to be actiive within our communities and our church. In Marlton Eileen was a member of the Women's Club and I was a member of the KofC. Eileen held several offices, including being elected President. I held several offices in the KofC and was elected Grand Knight. I was a lector and later a Special Minister of the Eucharist at St Joan's,and later at the newly formed St Isaac Jogues Parish, At its initiation I headed the Eucharistic Ministry and Eileen the Lectors. We served as both Lector and EM for several years before moving to St Augustine FL.
Professionally, I was an active member of the Membership Committees of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Science of the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA) and later held similar posts in the newly created American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences. I was elected to 2 x 3 year terms as Sec-Treas of the Pharmaceutical Technologies Section American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) and later elected to the Chair positions (Vice-Chair, Chair elect, Chair and Past Chair.
In my industrial career, I had opportunities to present seminars, abstracts at national and regional meetings and have manuscripts published. I am fortunate that I can continue to use these assets and continue to present seminars in my semi-retirement.
Eileen and I relocated to Saint Augustine FL in January 2011 and have enjoyed every minute since, We have history all around us and a beach 2 miles away. The climate here not quite as harsh in the summer as southern FL, and the winters are short. Frost and freezing occurs, but only at night. There is occasional snow, when a Jacksonville PTA decides to have a fund raiser and rents a snow making machine in January of February. That snow is usually at least 50 miles from our home, requires no shoveling by us and is really out of sight except for the reports in the newspaper.
Our distant children visit us with some regularity just as we get to visit them. Our son in Jacksonville is only 50 min away. I wish we all could live closer together, but sso far that has not happened.
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