Edward Farhi, MA’73, works full time for Google as a researcher in the field of quantum computing. He maintains an affiliation with MIT, where he served as director of the Center for Theoretical Physics for 12 years. Writer/producer/director Marshall Herskovitz was interviewed on actor Ilana Levina’s “Little Known Facts” podcast in August. George Kahn was part of a Zoom reunion organized to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead album “Workingman’s Dead.” Also participating were John Horn; Michael Kairys ’72; Rick Kaskawits; Steve Kelley ’72; Shmuel Klatzkin, PhD’92; Sara Klein; Eric London; Ruth Ryave; Carl Sealove ’74; Janet Smith ’76; Andrew Stockwell-Alpert ’72; Marc Tarrasch; Andrew Yood; and Gary Zellerbach ’74. Kenneth Schorr, who has practiced poverty law for 45 years, was recognized with the North Carolina Justice Center’s Lifetime Champion of Justice award. In October, Curtis Tearte was given the Distinguished Graduate Award by the University of Connecticut Law School Alumni Association. He is chairman and founder of the Tearte Family Foundation, serves as a vice chair of the Brandeis Board of Trustees, and was an executive in information technology at IBM for more than 30 years. Peter Wortsman’s stage play “The Tattooed Man Tells All,” inspired by interviews he conducted with aging survivors of the concentration camps, was filmed and screened in November by the Silverthorne Theater, in Greenfield, Massachusetts. The film is available for rental by educational organizations; for more information, email silverthornetheater@gmail.com. Rehearsals are currently underway for a production of a German translation of the play at the Deutsches Theater, in Göttingen, Germany. The original interviews on which the play is based are in the Peter Wortsman Collection of Oral History at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C.
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