Hi Family:
These are the pictures from dad's scrapbook that were still in good enough shape to scan. Sadly the others were so degraded as to be unusable. They're all either black and white or sepia in real life (yes, I still have all of them, even the ones I couldn't scan) but I have captured them all at high resolution gray scale for file size reasons. These pictures are BIG so be aware that your web browser will probably shrink them to fit in your display window. Clicking on the names below will display that picture, then simply click on the picture itself to zoom to actual size! Use the browsers "back" button to return to this page.
There were also newspaper clippings about him and other family members, wedding invitations, commencement programs, all of his high school basketball letters including the patches from the year they won the New Jersey State Championship, the usual stuff. The book itself is gone as the old pages were brown and brittle. I kept what had meaning to me.
Included are several pictures of his father (Herman), most notably a group from a family vacation in Vermont in 1937, a year before he died. I imagine that's why that set had such meaning for him. There are also a couple of Grandma Morchower holding him as a baby so kids (Matt & Alex), this is one of your grandfather's grandmothers.
I miss him terribly but finally going through his scrapbook, preserving what I could, and sharing it with you brings us all a little bit closer to him, and a little bit closer to each other. I wish we could all be together!
Much love,
John
