Robert Knapp

We reproduce here a most fitting letter from Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus to his early teacher, as it so beautifully captures the sentiment of so many Berkeley undergraduate classics students toward our own beloved teacher and mentor, Professor Knapp. 19 November 1957 Dear Monsieur Germain, I let the commotion around me these days subside a bit before speaking to you from the bottom of my heart. I have just been given far too great an honor, one I neither sought nor solicited. But when...

Robert, you elevated my step on our Monday morning walks. Always ready for a perspective on local and worldwide news, your thoughts both informed and valued. Every Monday I still look up Oceanview on `the walk" and miss your rapid gait. Fondly, Tom