(information revised 12/99)
Current Address: 5170 Golden Gate Avenue, Oakland, CA
94518
Home Phone: 510-658-6547
Email: rcknapp@socrates.berkeley.edu
Current marital status: married for 25 years
Children: two, Abigail (1977; graduated from UCLA
6/99; Event Planner) and Hannah (1980; sophomore at Mt. Holyoke College)
Spouse: Carolyn Knapp (Professor)
Occupation: Professor of Classics at the University of
California, Berkeley (since 1974)
Honor/distinctions: Salutatorian, MPHS, 1964; Valedictorian,
CMU (January Class 1968)
Years at College El: 1950-1958
A Short Biography since 1964
I attended Central Michigan and graduated as the Valedictorian
of the January Class of 1968 (Don Marks was Valedictorian in the Spring!)
Married Judy Danford (divorced in 1973, no children) and went off to graduate
school at the University of Pennsylvania, where I completed a doctorate
in Ancient History in 1973. I taught briefly at Colby College, Waterville,
Maine (1973), and at the University of Utah (1973-74) before joining the
faculty at Berkeley in 1974. I was married to Judy Danford from 1968-1973;
married Carolyn Smith, whom I met at Colby, in June of 1974; we have lived
in Oakland since and had a daughter in 1977, another in 1980. Carolyn
is a librarian; she gave up that career during the early childhood of our
daughters, but went back to Berkeley and received her doctorate in British
History in 1998; she is currently employed at the University of Nevada
(Reno). We have lived while on sabbatical in Munich, Aix-en-Provence,
Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, and London. My own work has taken me regularly
to Spain and Greece, where Berkeley has an excavation at Nemea. As
"empty nesters" we are sorting out where our lives are going, but managing
rather well. An interesting development is the purchase of a log
home built by my great-grandfather in 1892 just outside of Clare, which
we are restoring.
Family News
Austin
Knapp in 1950 
Gail Knapp in 1950 
Charles Knapp in 1953
