Well, it has taken more than a year, during which, I have been in contact with Michael Sivitz, Rona Kalin Moss, Steve Houck, Rick Houck (who lives in Panama of all places), Ellen Bet Shiller, Joy Isenberg, and of course, Ruth Siegel who, with her father, Stanley Siegel, has provided many of the documents we have collected for the website so far. I am sure Ruth gave up hope this site would ever go live as I have obsessed over the details and struggled with the Jewishgen requirements and my inexperience with site development. Yet here we are.
In addition to uploading the Golden Anniversary Booklet, I have scanned the 1952 Ohev Sholom Community Center Dedication Booklet and will be putting it online for everyone in the near future. Unfortunately, the original printer used a printing process that led to moire patterns in my scans. I tried scanning the book on three different scanners and all of them produced output that is far from perfect. This is unfortunate but it appears that I will be unable to correct the patterns which have not ruined the text but have affected the quality of the photographs.
I have a few other items to share, including some material supplied by my cousin, Joy Isenberg. I will add these to the site as well. I am working on getting the blog ready so that others may add to it; part of the problem lies with my struggle to learn to use the program that helps me build and extend this site. But when I am able to enable others to add to the blog, please do add to the site.
—Iris