Friday, August 17, 2012
Professor Marvin Meyer Passed Away Yesterday
From Marvin Meyer's Facebook page - "Hello, Facebook friends of Dr. Marvin Meyer: This is Marv's wife Bonnie writing the sad news that Marv passed away yesterday, Aug. 16, after a battle with melanoma.
His passing was peaceful, surrounded by our family. Our hearts are broken."
I spoke with Professor Meyer many times on the phone and corresponded through email. I met to say 'hi' at the recent Secret Mark conference in Toronto but the antipathy I harbor toward that city kept me away. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.
I spoke with Professor Meyer many times on the phone and corresponded through email. I met to say 'hi' at the recent Secret Mark conference in Toronto but the antipathy I harbor toward that city kept me away. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.

dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."