Current Home City: Atlanta, Georgia

Your College: Arts and Sciences

Email Address: hknapp@khlawfirm.com

Tell us what you’re doing with your life:
Charmed by the virtues of the New South, I settled in Atlanta, Ga. and married Lyn Rogers, Atlanta’s finest. Like our favorite magazine, Garden & Gun, we like to hike, bike, entertain, hunt, cook, watch lacrosse, workout and argue about politics, God and the meaning of life. Lyn’s kitchen (both in Atlanta and our lake house) produces meals of legend which are the perfect backdrop for such fun. Our two children, Hale and Eve, bring us great joy when they are back in town. During the week, I practice law, resolving disputes involving businesses and the duties and obligations that officers and managers owe their owners. I frequently write, speak and train young lawyers on the art of the practice of law. Tires down on the open road, I find peace on my road bike.

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
In recent years, I have been active with my fraternity, Chi Psi, helping recolonize the brotherhood and refurbishing the house. Reunion planning twice has brought me to Ithaca in 2016. Each time, I have walked the campus, amazed at how it has changed (flowers, yes flowers on campus) yet also remains the same: a beautiful, energized place.

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Walter LaFeber-American Foreign Policy
Vance Christian-Wine Tasting
Latin 300 Horace and Catullus (It’s a long story involving Sly & the Family Stone and missing a mid-term)

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 40 years?
1) Trust your instincts;
2) Don’t underestimate the power of the the truth; and
3) Embrace every impulse to serve others.

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Chi Psi Brotherhood
On cover of Daily Sun running Phi Psi 500
Sly & Family Stone Concert
Sage Chapel Choir
Senior Spring With The Newc
Sitting on blue line all 4 years (men & women)
Being part of TV commercial
Watching Big Red lax
Found library once
Chapter House

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1977.
Lacrosse has been a constant companion in our lives. Statkeeper for years for local high school men’s & women’s teams. I still watch the 1976 & 1977 finals on YouTube and both my son, Hale, and my daughter, Eve, (honorable mention high school All American) played the sport with great passion. Season ticket holder of the Atlanta Blaze and thus get to watch Max Siebald and Rob Pannell remind us of Big Red’s glory days, images of Eamon always dancing in the background.