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Clockwise from above: Kelly Pham ’16 counts pills;
Jason Eakins ’17 and Ashley Kopla ’17 confer; Julie
Nguyen ’19 uses a stethoscope; and Kelvin Reynolds ’19
assists in a pharmacy.
They also found an indispensable ally in
Parkview Health, which agreed to remodel the
cardiology building at the Parkview campus
on Randallia Drive in Fort Wayne and rent it
to Manchester for the Pharmacy Program.
“You’ve got to remember, the first class,
we were showing pictures of this building,”
Bonnarens says. “The only thing that was
in this field was the concrete shaft for the
elevator. That was it.”
Then came the $35 million grant from Lilly
Endowment, which put in motion plans for
the $20-million facility that sits on Dupont
Road today. Faculty signed on. Bonnarens
wound up moving his family to Indiana after
all. And Caudill, who would be intimately