Homer Charles Washburn
Dean
1904 to 1912

In 1904, the University administration was eager to bring about renewed interest in the School of Pharmacy. At the beginning of that year, Homer Charles Washburn, who had earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan, came to Oklahoma to head the School of Pharmacy and to be a professor of pharmacy and materia medica.

Dean Washburn directed a major change in pharmacy education in 1907. That year the School of Pharmacy began to offer a four-year Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree in addition to the existing two-year Pharmaceutical Chemist degree. Oscar Carl Felton received the first B.S. in Pharmacy on June 1, 1910.

In 1911, Dean Washburn took a leave of absense for one year, and Dr. DeBarr filled in as Acting Dean. Dean Washburn then resigned in 1912 to become Dean of Pharmacy at the University of Colorado.

History sited from: Centennial, The University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy; Author Leo Glenn Tate