Farewell ​to Moristotle & Co.

On Behalf of
Rolf Dumke

By His Daughter,
Sibylla Dumke,
from Olargues, France

Dear Morris, you have stimulated and showcased the works, ideas, expressions, writings, and pictures of all kinds of different and interesting people. One of them was my dear Dad, whose 82nd birthday would have been this July 16^th.

Rolf & Susan Dumke, Alps in the distance
(photo by Moristotle, September 2014)

Morris & Carolyn Dean with Susan Dumke
(Photo by Rolf Dumke)

    I cannot thank you enough for the fact that he felt so inspired by your talking with him and Mom in their living room in Rosenheim in 2014 that he redoubled his efforts to write down his stories of growing up in America (where he met Mom) and even found pictures to go with them. I still remember him sitting long hours in the kitchen writing on his tablet, reading aloud here and there from what he’d written. This procedure gave him great meaning in life. Maybe some closure too.
    His writings about “Growing Up in America” gave our family a document of our true family history. Dad’s thoughts, his writings, his choice of pictures, his ways of describing. His vivid memory. When I read his columns on Moristotle & Co., it’s as if he is still here with us.
    Thank you for this, dear Morris. I am very grateful.

Dad with my brothers, Tristan & Christof,
at Happinger Lake, near Rosenheim, in Bavaria

Dad trudging in the snow

Dad & Mom at home

Dad at my first art exhibition (2007); that’s me far left

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