Matt Meyers died June 25, 2011, in Las Cruces, N.M., surrounded by friends from his community of artists, writers, environmentalists, yoga enthusiasts, and spiritual seekers. Matt loved the peacefulness he found in the mountains of New Mexico, where he taught yoga, meditation, and smoking-cessation techniques.
Matt hailed from Brooklyn, graduating from James Madison High School, and brought to Princeton all the intensity and spirit that Brooklyn begat. Matt excelled in Professor Alpheus T. Mason’s famously
challenging course on “Constitutional Interpretation,” and later, as editor of the 1968 Bric-a-Brac, dedicated the yearbook to Professor Mason. Ever loyal, Matt made a point of visiting Professor Mason whenever he returned to Princeton. But Matt will be most vividly remembered by us as an avid and conspicuous leader of the campus anti-war movement.
After graduation, he earned a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University, and traveled extensively, including several extended stays in Israel. His focus gradually turned from politics to individual and community well-being, and to poetry. We are privileged to have known such an indomitable soul, restless intellect, and wellspring of creativity.