Class Note 1948
Issue
March-April 2022
John Price was nice enough to send me an email, which I’ll quote to you. “Barbara and I have been together for 27 years. We got married four years ago and find that we’re even closer than before. Barbara is a retired teacher and now a docent at our local art museum. Her work is very limited because of the pandemic. Last year I retired after 64 years of practicing child and adult psychiatry. I’m playing tennis several times a week with a bunch of 80-year-olds who should know better. It’s good exercise.
“We have a large flower garden, and I specialize in growing and hybridizing daylilies. Here they bloom mostly from mid-June to the end of July. I wanted more to bloom in August so I started to hybridize them with that goal in mind. Fifteen years ago I began making crosses starting at the end of July and continuing through August so that most of their offspring would bloom in August. Now my daylilies bloom all summer long! When I want to make a cross between two daylilies, I snip off a stamen from one (at the end of the stamen is the anther, which is covered with pollen) flower and rub the pollen against the tip of the pistil of a flower on the other plant. Amazingly, cells in the pollen extend down the pistil to the base of the flower, where the eggs are. If they fertilize—about half the time—egg seeds develop. I then harvest the seedpods about six to eight weeks later and plant the seeds outdoors the next spring.
“Lastly, we play bridge. During the pandemic we started playing with friends on the internet on a site called Bridgebase. What a tough game! We both have our booster shots and are beginning to play bridge in person and go to restaurants. We are both very troubled by the increasing polarization in our politics and hope our country can become more reasonable.
“I look forward to our 75th and hope to see many of you there!”
I look forward to hearing from you on anything you would like to talk about—from Dartmouth to daylilies. Silence is not golden!
—Dave Kurr, 603 Mountain Ave., Unit 331, New Providence, NJ 07974; (781) 801-6716; djkurr@verizon.net
“We have a large flower garden, and I specialize in growing and hybridizing daylilies. Here they bloom mostly from mid-June to the end of July. I wanted more to bloom in August so I started to hybridize them with that goal in mind. Fifteen years ago I began making crosses starting at the end of July and continuing through August so that most of their offspring would bloom in August. Now my daylilies bloom all summer long! When I want to make a cross between two daylilies, I snip off a stamen from one (at the end of the stamen is the anther, which is covered with pollen) flower and rub the pollen against the tip of the pistil of a flower on the other plant. Amazingly, cells in the pollen extend down the pistil to the base of the flower, where the eggs are. If they fertilize—about half the time—egg seeds develop. I then harvest the seedpods about six to eight weeks later and plant the seeds outdoors the next spring.
“Lastly, we play bridge. During the pandemic we started playing with friends on the internet on a site called Bridgebase. What a tough game! We both have our booster shots and are beginning to play bridge in person and go to restaurants. We are both very troubled by the increasing polarization in our politics and hope our country can become more reasonable.
“I look forward to our 75th and hope to see many of you there!”
I look forward to hearing from you on anything you would like to talk about—from Dartmouth to daylilies. Silence is not golden!
—Dave Kurr, 603 Mountain Ave., Unit 331, New Providence, NJ 07974; (781) 801-6716; djkurr@verizon.net