Campbell, Susan

From Lane Co Oregon

SUSAN CAMPBELL

Susan Campbell (1857-1932), wife of Prince Lucien Campbell, left her own individual mark on the UO. Long active in the growth and progress of the university, she was known also for her work in other areas. “Every good cause found a friend in her,” said Old Oregon, the UO alumni magazine, upon her death. “The work for the crippled children, the Red Cross, the Murray Warner Museum of Oriental Art, the Lane County Health Association, the Y.W.C.A., the student loan work, internationalism, social hygiene, the Old Age Relief fund and many more.” But it was the university that Mrs. Campbell considered her closest family. She came to the UO in 1905, as supervisor of student living, and married President Campbell in 1908. She knew hundreds of students personally, and maintained a constant interest in their welfare and activities. In 1921, a women’s dormitory was built and named Susan Campbell Hall.

The building today houses the Chancellor’s Office of the Oregon University System. A bronze portrait of Mrs. Campbell can still be found there, bearing an inscription of Tennyson’s words, “Yoked in all enterprise of noble end.” And underneath, “Benevolence, Simplicity, Love.”