[Leica] My father

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Peter,
Thank for sharing your fathers abreviated story.  I am glad that there were
good images to fix his memory for those not as close as you to your father.
Pick a time periodically and reflect on your father.  It will keep you
closer and any pain further away.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 1/29/06, Peter Klein <pklein@2alpha.net> wrote:
>
> You haven't heard from me in a while, and here's why.  My dad, Milton
> Klein
> passed away on Sunday, Jan. 22.   The funeral was Thursday.
>
> These were the two pictures that stood by the guest book at his funeral.
>
> Dad in 1951, photo by my Mom, Bolsey B2, Kodachrome:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/EmMiltHoneymoon/20MiltCar
>
> Dad in late 2004, photo by me, M6TTL and V/C 50/1.5 Nokton, Tri-X:
> http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/family/06Milt.htm
>
> Dad was born in 1917 and grew up in the East Bronx, the son of poor
> eastern
> European Jewish immigrants.  His father was a tailor who had little
> understanding of the world beyond his job.  Dad was different from the
> rest
> of his family.  When his father gave him money to fix a hole in his shoe,
> Dad put cardboard in his shoe and used the money to buy books.  No one
> else
> in my father's immediate family went to college.  His two brothers and
> sister worked as a postal worker, a cab driver and transit worker, and a
> secretary.  My father went on to earn a bachelor's in chemical engineering
> from City College of NY, then a master's in mathematics and a PhD in
> physics from NYU.
>
> He worked for the U.S. Census, then at Langley air base in Virginia during
> WWII.  His work on aerodynamics was considered important enough that he
> was
> in and out of the military in six days, and reassigned to his old job.  He
> later taught at NYU, worked for General Electric and a couple of small
> companies, then spent most of the rest of his career as a civilian
> scientist for the U.S. Air Force in the Boston area.
>
> After he retired, one of his greatest pleasures was to sit in an easy
> chair
> with the New York Times Book Review and a book of advanced math in his
> lap,
> alternately reading about books and doing calculations that interested
> him.  He also loved classical music, particularly chamber music.
>
> --Peter
>
>
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