In Memory

Mayer Wantman VIEW PROFILE

Mayer Wantman

Linda Wantman, 16 Park Avenue, London NW11 7SJ 

Phone 020-8458-4454 

 

Linda Wantman wrote: I was touched that you wrote and included me in this special occasion. Mount Hermon was such an important and meaningful part of Mayer’s life. He talked frequently, with fondness and enthusiasm about his time and experiences at the school. It is a great consolation to me that he attended a reunion a few years before his death. He returned home, at that time, full of excitement about meeting so many classmates and renewing his connection with the school.

Mayer and I were married in 1967 in London, whilst Mayer was working over here on a 2 year contract. Following our marriage we returned to live in Boston for 6 years before coming back to London in 1973. Mayer had begun working with computers whilst studying for his Masters at the Sloane School at MIT. From then onwards he remained passionate about computers. He loved the challenge of computer programming and of developing systems. This was long before computers were in common use. He often joked that during the 1960’s, when he told people he worked with computers, it tended to be a conversation stopper! His enthusiasm never waned and he continued to work, in spite of his illness, until a few months before his death.

 

As well as his passion for computers, Mayer was devoted to and proud of our four children, who are now grown up and making their own way in the world. Sadly he didn’t live to see our three grandchildren.

 

We all miss him dreadfully. I feel certain we would have attended this reunion next year and I know he would be touched to have been remembered by you.

 

 





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