Born September 7, 1918 Graduated Gesu Grade School (1932) Attended West Division High School (1933-1937) U.S. Navy, World War II (Dental Technician, USS Effingham) Married Margaret M. Kortsch (1944) Graduated Marquette University, B.S., Business Administration (1947) Graduated Marquette University Law School…
Dad with law school friends. The letter is an August 17, 1945, inquiry written two days after the end of the war while aboard the Effingham to the Marquette registrar about how many years of education he would be given…
Dad worked for Lines, Spooner, & Quarles as an office boy before he went into the Navy and again from 1947 to 1949 while he was in law school. On p. 25 of the History he is said to have…
Racing form from the Santa Anita racetrack in Los Angeles, April 24, 1989. Only the cover and pages with Dad’s notes have been preserved here.
A small (3 ½”x 2 ½”) leather bound book listing Dad’s friends, family, and acquaintances. It also includes a number of entries for Kortsch family members and lists Mom’s measurements on the last page (18½ inch waist), showing comfortable familiarity,…
Postcards Dad–and Roman Renk–sent to Dad’s family during the 1940 canoe trip. You can read Dad’s diary of the trip in typeset or autograph versions.
Typeset version of Dad’s handwritten account of the canoe trip with Roman Renk. Pictures have been added to show some of the places he mentions as he might have seen them.
Nine page diary of the 1940 canoe trip with Roman Renk in Dad’s handwriting. For easier reading, see the Typeset version.
Dad’s closest friend, Jim O’Herrin (1918-1936), died young, when Dad was a high school senior. Afterward, he remained close to Jim’s younger brother, Bill (1920-2009), and the O’Herrin family. After Dad’s mother died in 1944, Mrs. O’Herrin wrote an affectionate letter…
Dad was manager of the West Division football team, definitely in 1936 and probably the following year, too. The three bench tags are dated 1936. None of the news clips are dated, but the last one refers to the trade of…
Dad’s senior yearbook. Only pages with annotations have been included here although the complete hard copy is available in the physical archive. Dad’s portrait is on p. 35 and a reference to him on the preceding page. Numerous references to…
Dad’s junior yearbook. Only the annotated pages are shown here, though the complete hard copy is available. Dad’s homeroom group picture is on p. 66.
Dad’s Personal Health merit badge certification (second picture), as well as five of those for Robert Quinn, who graduated from Gesu Grade School with him in 1932 and must have been a friend. Why Dad had them is a mystery.…
Five-page booklet on cardboard stock, supplied by Hartman Furniture and Carpet Company, on West Water Street. With, of course, a recommendation to buy a Hartman’s baby carriage. Dad was born at home, 1219½ Clybourn Street, at 10:28 (presumably a.m.). Weight…