GRANDPA JOHN's memoirs, and old family photos

The memoirs of John Korns (1883-1959) are available as pdf's, for easy reading (or printing) with free Adobe Reader software.

CLICK HERE FOR PART ONE (John's life before China). Fans of the television series "ER" will see that nothing has changed at Cook County Hospital in a hundred years -- same old "whoring" interns! Parts Two and Three will be on-line soon.

Old family photographs you can view (and download) here. Many were added in November 2007.

You can link to Robert ("Grandpa") Korns's 1995 obituary here (thanks to Julianne Kelly for finding this!).

John and robert sr.'s works

Several of you have recently discovered online some of the professional output of John Korns and his son Robert, who were active in the medical community from about 1905 to 1975.

Here is an item by John Korns on the "influence of the Peking Medical College". Here is an article by Robert ("Grandpa") Korns on "en epidemiological approach to traffic accidents", while here is an article of his on...poop!

DIGITAL "RAINBOW NEWS"!

The Rainbow News was a Korns family-and-friends newsletter compiled by John Kelly from 1980 to 1992.