From the family collection
Photographs
A selection of photographs from Ken’s life. Select a photograph to see it larger, with any inscription on its reverse.
Early years
c. 1926Ken and his brother Buddy in a toy truck at their home, 1153 Bayard Avenue, St. Louis.
June 1937Ken at 16, photographed for his graduation from Soldan High School in June 1937.
1941Ken (right) with his friends Bob Abrams and Vic Ellman in front of the Ellman home on the 5100 block of Kensington Avenue, near Soldan High School.
Navy, 1942–1946
c. 1943Ken as an ensign in the U.S. Navy, in a studio portrait signed by the photographer DeWoskin. The back says it was probably taken during his Navy schooling at Harvard early in the war.
1944Ken with Rabbi Herschel Schacter, an Army Jewish chaplain stationed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, who visited the naval base at Guantánamo Bay in 1944. Ken's note calls him the only Orthodox Jewish chaplain to visit during Ken's three years there, and a friend from then on.
1944Ken conducts a Passover Seder for Navy personnel from the Naval Operating Base, in Guantánamo City, Cuba.
16 March 1946Ken, by then a lieutenant, at the pulpit during a Purim party at Guantánamo Bay, shortly before his discharge from the Navy.
Marriage and family
Building Torah
c. 1964At a Torah Umesorah dinner, Ken (centre) holds a plaque bearing his name, flanked by Moses Feuerstein (left) and Irving M. Bunim (right).
Ken (centre) receives the National Youth Leadership Award of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America at a dinner at the Capital Hilton; the award bears his name.
c. 1976Ken (centre, in a hat) holds a plaque at the 54th National Convention of Agudath Israel of America, beneath the banner “54 years and we’re still growing!”
Ken addresses a formal dinner from the lectern.
1985Ken addresses the convention of Agudath Israel of America at the Hilton hotel in Rye, New York.
1993Ken, honoured at the Chinuch Atzmai dinner in New York City, with Avraham Wilhelm (left) and Rav Menachem Greenblatt (right).
Ken speaks from the lectern at a dinner.
Ken at a formal dinner.
Studio portrait of Ken.
Ken, in a black fedora, at a dinner table with two younger men.
Ken at a bris.
Jerusalem
c. 1993Ken and Rita with Hilda and Aaron Krumbein — “the older generation,” as the back of the print calls them.
Ken and his brother Lee present a plaque in memory of their grandparents Shalom Yitzchak and Shifra Rivka Raskas in the Zichron Moshe synagogue in Jerusalem's Geula neighbourhood, where Shalom Yitzchak had served as gabbai in the 1920s and 1930s. Great-grandsons look on.
7 June 2000Ken, seated at far left, at a siyum celebrating the completion of Meseches Shabbos in Har Nof, Jerusalem, with Rabbi Reuven Kamenetzky (front row, third from left).
Ken and Rita
c. 1975Ken and Rita in their fifties.
1972Ken and Rita (centre) walking in Toledo, Spain, during a Transamerica convention, with their children Fayge in front and Jonathan, Abbie and David following.
c. 1985Ken and Rita at a Transamerica Leading Producers Club convention.
Ken and Rita, a formal portrait.
c. 1995Ken (standing) and Rita (centre) with Aaron and Hilda Krumbein.


