Le Chevalier: English Professor Receives French Knighthood

It was a chance encounter in an elevator that brought Maurice Géracht to Holy Cross 52 years ago. He was a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin, wrapping up his dissertation and fielding job offers, when his adviser asked him to meet with her friend Edward Callahan, then-chair of the Holy Cross English department. Géracht was attending the same conference as Callahan, but had so many meetings and presentations to attend that they never connected.