The Connecticut Dahlia Society

March 2016 Newsletter

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Meeting Date: Sunday, March 13, 2016

Time: 1:00 pm Judge’s Exam

2:00 pm Business Meeting & Historical Slide

Presentation

Place: Thomaston Savings Bank, 985 Watertown Avenue,

Waterbury

President’s Message:

A very mild winter so far must have all of you thinking of having an early spring? We hope that that will be true as last year we had a difficult winter with a lot of snow. It will not be long before you should start looking over your roots to check how they have stored and if you are able to find an excess of different varieties, to put them aside for our Root Sale on April 24^th.

At this March meeting we will go over the plans for our Root Sale. We will have all roots labeled before they arrive at the sale so this should allow us to have a fast and orderly set-up by our Root Sale Committee.

Recently, I picked up the Historical Materials from Ruth Kurtz that had been maintained by her late husband, Mickey, who had served as our Historian. It is exciting for me to find that there are Kodachrome slides from the start of our society in the late 1950’s and sixties that might be of interest to many of you. I have never seen them before and it will be fun trying

to decide the names of many of the varieties that were big winners back then and also to see the different locations where our shows were held. So I plan to show some of them at the end of our business meeting. At our May meeting I will bring our many historic albums for viewing.

We look forward to seeing many of you at the meeting.

Marge Schnerr

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In Memoriam

Ralph A. Epstein, MD

(1939-2016)

Dr. Epstein, an avid dahlia grower, and member of the Connecticut Dahlia Society passed away February 7, 2016, at the age of 76. Dr. Epstein received his undergraduate degree from Columbia College and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed his training in Anesthesiology at the Columbia University Medical Center and served for two years at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, before returning to Columbia University’s Department of Anesthesiology as a professor. In 1981 Dr. Epstein was appointed Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Connecticut Medical Center in Farmington, where he served until his retirement. We extend our deepest sympathy to his wife, Mary Anne.

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2016 CDS Meeting Dates:

April 24 Root Sale, West Hartford, Set-up 9:00 am, 12:00 Noon Sale Open to the Public

May 15 Thomaston Bank, 2:00 pm Regular Meeting

June 12 Thomaston Bank

July 10 Thomaston Bank

Aug. Annual Picnic, date & place to be decided

Aug. 27 CDS Dahlia Society 58^th Annual Show, Pond House, West Hartford

Sept. No Meeting, Show Month

Oct. 9 Thomaston Bank

Nov. 13 Thomaston Bank

Dec. Christmas Party, date & place to be decided