I received my doctoral training in plant anatomy, plant physiology and genetics at Cornell University. During six years of postdoctoral and research appointments, I concurrently taught classes part-time in my chosen fields. I then entered full-time teaching (24 credit hours per year) at Elmira College and conducted research with students during summers as an adjunct professor at the L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University. I established the Elmira College Herbarium in 1984, founded on the historical plant collections of T. F. Lucy. During my first sabbatical at the L. H. Bailey Hortorium in 1990, I completed my Field Guide to the Common Plants of San Salvador Island (revised June 2005). While a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the College of the Bahamas in 1996, I facilitated the establishment of the Bahamas National Herbarium, of which I am currently an associated staff member. I have also been Visiting Professor at the herbaria of Michigan State University, and Cornell University. In summer 2000, I retired from full-time teaching. Currently, I am Visiting Professor in the Department of Plant Biology at Cornell, where I focus my efforts on publishing scientific papers and writing an intellectual biography of Barbara McClintock (Cornellian and Nobel Laureate). I also continue consulting and investigating the biodiversity and reproductive biology of Bahamian Plants. Since revising my field guide to the Common Plants of San Salvador Island, Bahamas (Kass 2005), I have continued working towards an updated and expanded 3rd edition. I am a resource person for investigators on the Bahama Flora and historians working in the field of botany and genetics. I have collaborating with Professor RP Murphy of the Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics to write a Centennial history of their department (Murphy and Kass, July 2007). Also, I have guided Elmira College Honors and Research students in updating names for the T. F. Lucy Herbarium collection, which is currently housed at Cornell. Upon completing my current projects, I plan to continue my work in the Bahamas, and pursue research for a biography of L. H. Bailey.