{"id":1580,"date":"2013-10-07T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T11:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2019-03-05T23:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:30:04","slug":"surprise-for-past-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/2013\/10\/07\/surprise-for-past-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise for Past Presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Who was to be the speaker at the regional Past Presidents\u2019 annual gathering? Billed as \u201cMiss Deborah Marsh\u201d, it was announced that she would recount anecdotes about her long career in pharmacy. The door opened \u2026 and in came Regional President Liz McConnell.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">As a\u00a0\u2018Saturday girl\u2019 in the mid-1960s, keen to gain work experience in a pharmacy,\u00a0Liz\u2019s first job had been to scrub returned medicine bottles in readiness for their sterilisation \u2013 in the gas oven at Regulo \u00bd for 40 minutes. This set the tone for the rest of the talk. There\u00a0was the stiff, crackly white nylon coat (so coveted, but so\u00a0uncomfortable to wear);\u00a0top shelf bottles that threatened to cascade like dominoes when Liz dusted them; discreet brown paper bags for customers buying the sherry or ruby port that many pharmacies were\u00a0licensed to sell; and over-the-counter medicines that once contained strychnine, mercury, morphine or alcohol.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2013\/10\/Regional-PP-lunch-President-Liz-IPP-Denise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1584\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2013\/10\/Regional-PP-lunch-President-Liz-IPP-Denise.jpg\" alt=\"denise baldwin and president liz at regional past presidents lunch\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2013\/10\/Regional-PP-lunch-President-Liz-IPP-Denise.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2013\/10\/Regional-PP-lunch-President-Liz-IPP-Denise-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>President Liz drew a veil over her student days when, among other things, she learned about creating lotions, creams and suppositories. (Much pharmaceutical knowledge comes in useful when cooking &#8211; all except the\u00a0intricacies of suppositories.) However, there were many tales from years of dealing with the public \u2013 including the request for liniment for the legs of a racing pigeon.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cI didn\u2019t know until two minutes beforehand the identity of the speaker I was due to introduce,\u201d said Immediate Past President Denise Baldwin, who had organised the event. \u201cLiz kept us all in the dark \u2013 and we loved the surprise.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">And \u201cMiss Deborah Marsh\u201d? President Liz qualified before her marriage, and is \u2018officially\u2019 Deborah.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who was to be the speaker at the regional Past Presidents\u2019 annual gathering? 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