Jerry E. Kessler recently retired after 38 years as a professor of Dental Laboratory Technology. In that period of time, he established four Dental Technology Programs, one of which he taught at for 33 years, Middlesex Community College, in Lowell, MA. He was awarded Technician of the Year by the Massachusetts Dental Society.

Jerry belongs to the American Orchid Society, New Hampshire, and Nutmeg State Orchid Societies. He recently presented a lecture at Tower Hill, Boylston, MA, on the twenty years of cultivating his Cymbidium Pauwelsii ‘Kessander’, CCM/AOS.