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I like the picture of Alma.
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Miss Alma Grace Stokey, botanist and professor emeritus of plant science at Mount Holyoke college, will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree at the 121st commencement exercises of Oberlin college on June 13. She is one of the six chosen by that college to receive honorary degrees. The others include Richard R. Dupree, chairman of the board of the Proctor and Gamble Co., and Adlai L. Stevenson, former governor of Illinois and 1952 Democratic nominee for president.
Miss Stokey is an expert on fern reproduction. She has received spores by airmail from all over the world. During her 34 years as a member of the Mount Holyoke department of plant science, she spent leaves of absence in India, Ceylon and Java, teaching and studying and returning with large amounts of tropical fern material. She has since raised and studied them in the college laboratories.
During the last five years she has published many articles on fern prothallia and she is now writing a book on the subject. Last summer was the second summer which she spent in Jamaica collecting material. Last year she was made an honorary member of the American Fern Society. She is the third person ever to receive this honor.
Miss Stokey is an expert on fern reproduction. She has received spores by airmail from all over the world. During her 34 years as a member of the Mount Holyoke department of plant science, she spent leaves of absence in India, Ceylon and Java, teaching and studying and returning with large amounts of tropical fern material. She has since raised and studied them in the college laboratories.
During the last five years she has published many articles on fern prothallia and she is now writing a book on the subject. Last summer was the second summer which she spent in Jamaica collecting material. Last year she was made an honorary member of the American Fern Society. She is the third person ever to receive this honor.
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Miss Alma Grace Stokey
It should be "Dr. Alma Gracey Stokey". Miss Alma Grace Stokey was AG, who was 19 years old at the time. I keep wondering if they looked through their files and found AG and thought, "That must be she!" (Or, more likely, "That's her!)
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Adlai L. Stevenson, former governor of Illinois and 1952 Democratic nominee for president.
Stevenson was also the 1956 Democratic nominee for president, but that was in the future.
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Last summer was the second summer which she spent in Jamaica collecting material.
I'm pleased to get dates for when Alma went to Jamaica. I vaguely remember my mother saying that when Aunt Alma went to Jamaica for the first time, she liked it because it smelled like India.
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During the last five years she has published many articles on fern prothallia and she is now writing a book on the subject.
Was there ever a book? Surely I would remember hearing about it if there were. Like, "Aunt Alma had a PhD, and she even wrote a book!" But I don't remember anything about a book.
Here is Wikipedia on fern prothallia:
A prothallus, or prothallium, (from Latin pro = forwards and Greek θαλλος (thallos) = twig) is usually the gametophyte stage in the life of a fern or other pteridophyte. Occasionally the term is also used to describe the young gametophyte of a liverwort or peat moss as well. In lichens it refers to the region of the thallus that is free of algae.
The prothallus develops from a germinating spore. It is a short-lived and inconspicuous heart-shaped structure typically 2–5 millimeters wide, with a number of rhizoids (root-like hairs) growing underneath, and the sex organs: archegonium (female) and antheridium (male). Appearance varies quite a lot between species. Some are green and conduct photosynthesis while others are colorless and nourish themselves underground as saprotrophs.
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The American Fern Society's website is
https://www.amerfernsoc.org/
The American Fern Society was established in 1893 with the objective of fostering interest in ferns and lycophytes, or pteridophytes.
They sound very, very enthusiastic.
Miss Alma Grace Stokey
It should be "Dr. Alma Gracey Stokey". Miss Alma Grace Stokey was AG, who was 19 years old at the time. I keep wondering if they looked through their files and found AG and thought, "That must be she!" (Or, more likely, "That's her!)
2.
Adlai L. Stevenson, former governor of Illinois and 1952 Democratic nominee for president.
Stevenson was also the 1956 Democratic nominee for president, but that was in the future.
3.
Last summer was the second summer which she spent in Jamaica collecting material.
I'm pleased to get dates for when Alma went to Jamaica. I vaguely remember my mother saying that when Aunt Alma went to Jamaica for the first time, she liked it because it smelled like India.
4.
During the last five years she has published many articles on fern prothallia and she is now writing a book on the subject.
Was there ever a book? Surely I would remember hearing about it if there were. Like, "Aunt Alma had a PhD, and she even wrote a book!" But I don't remember anything about a book.
Here is Wikipedia on fern prothallia:
A prothallus, or prothallium, (from Latin pro = forwards and Greek θαλλος (thallos) = twig) is usually the gametophyte stage in the life of a fern or other pteridophyte. Occasionally the term is also used to describe the young gametophyte of a liverwort or peat moss as well. In lichens it refers to the region of the thallus that is free of algae.
The prothallus develops from a germinating spore. It is a short-lived and inconspicuous heart-shaped structure typically 2–5 millimeters wide, with a number of rhizoids (root-like hairs) growing underneath, and the sex organs: archegonium (female) and antheridium (male). Appearance varies quite a lot between species. Some are green and conduct photosynthesis while others are colorless and nourish themselves underground as saprotrophs.
5.
The American Fern Society's website is
https://www.amerfernsoc.org/
The American Fern Society was established in 1893 with the objective of fostering interest in ferns and lycophytes, or pteridophytes.
They sound very, very enthusiastic.
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