Brandeis Magazine

Meyer Drapkin and wife Caryn, both P’12, live in Waldoboro, Maine, where they share their property with six ducks and make maple syrup annually (“usually enough for two or three good-sized pancakes,” Meyer says). A retired rural letter carrier, he has written and illustrated a children’s book titled “The Frog in the Mailbox.” Meyer and Caryn have two daughters and two grandkids. Physicist Edward Farhi, GSAS MA’73, says he stays active doing research related to quantum computers. Having retired from MIT after 37 years, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, Emeritus, now works full time as a researcher at Google. Jonathan Greenberg reports he has retired from practicing medicine after 45 years. Bob Macris writes, “Grace and I continue to enjoy life in a grand rotation: winter in Costa Rica, summer in Canada, and spring and fall in New York. We are grateful to see our children, Camille, Francesca, and Luc, launching themselves into adulthood. An expression in Costa Rica captures the essence of it all — pura vida.” Michael Matza is the author of “Haiti, Love, and Murder in the Season of Soup Joumou,” a mystery-thriller set amid the apocalyptic security crisis that foreshadowed the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in Haiti. Michael covered international, national, and local news as a Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer for three decades. Author Peter Wortsman reports the German translation of his stage play “The Tattooed Man Tells All,” inspired by interviews he conducted with concentration-camp survivors, had an eight-month run at the Deutsches Theater, in Goettingen, Germany. His most-recent works include “Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Pilgrim: Essays in Lieu of a Memoir” (Pelekinesis, 2021) and the poetry collection “Borrowed Words” (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022). He has been married to Claudie Bernard for 36 years, and they have two grown children, Aurelie and Jacques.