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Friday, July 21, 2023

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 16th.
    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.
Rolf & Susan Dumke, Alps in the distance
(photo by Moristotle, September 2014)
Morris & Carolyn Dean with Susan Dumke
(Photo by Rolf Dumke)
    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

Copyright © 2023 by Sibylla Dumke

2 comments:

  1. What a lovely and gracious tribute to both father and friend.

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  2. What a blessing for your family and I am glad we as readers got to share in those stories through this forum!

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