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She attended the University of Washington’s pharmacy school, graduating in 1970 in a class that was 33% women, among the highest in the country. “Washington has always been a very progressive state,” she notes. It was the ripe environment for change and the mentoring of Don Katterman, a professional who was passionate about and involved in pharmacy, that led her to pursue a career in community pharmacy practice. “He believed pharmacists should get paid for services. I’m not sure if that grew from his observations during his 4 years as a Squibb sales representative or elsewhere,” she says. He gave her a real heads-up on what was happening in the profession, exposed
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her to new ideas, and told her that many would disagr
ee with the new way of thinking. Another key influence at that time was the school’s assistant dean, Louis Fisher. “He was a much-beloved, rolypoly, jolly man who really tuned into the student’s thinking,” she reflects.
