I received the sad news from my alma mater the other day that H. D. Cameron has died. I first met Prof. Cameron in the summer of 2004, long before I became a student at Michigan. Even at that early date Michigan was my first choice for doctoral study, and I went to Ann Arbor to see the university for myself and meet with some faculty. I went over to the Classical Studies department in Angell Hall and found Prof. Cameron roaming the hall as he so often did. He asked me if he could be of service, and when I explained my purpose, he rousted some grad students to talk to me in the library. As Ben Fortson’s obituary indicates, this was typical of Prof. Cameron. Once I became a student at Michigan a few years later I saw him often in that hallway, dispensing wisdom, advice and good cheer. He made an effort to learn the names of graduate students, even those like me who were not directly part of the Classical Studies department. He was like an uncle to the entire department, someone that every department needs but too few have.
Archaeologist, Art Historian, Sometime Curator, and Ocassional Classicist