Campbell University - Pine Burr Yearbook (Buies Creek, NC)

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Dr. Leslie H. Campbell serving in his first year as president of Campbell College ' - ' f Carlyle, Leslie, and Bessie Campbell. Carlyle is now president of Meredith, Leslie president of Campbell, and Bessie is our oun .Mrs. Lynch, Professor in the .Music Department here at Campbell His moments of laughter are most often moments of friendsliip shared in the job being done. His cloudy hours are most likely to come when people give less than their best toward realizing his dream for the school. He reserves his strongest personal loyalties for those who do give themselves wholeheartedly for the college. Dr Leslie has time for few outside activities, and even the occasional game of golf, civic club meeting, or week-end outing commonly finds him in the midst of associates, busy at shop talk. To understand him one must realize that he is all but totally absorbed in the work of educating the young.

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1 50 %H im iir- 50 Years Ago Fittingly the 1962 Pine Burr is dedicated to the man whose leadership has brought the story we tell in this annual to the present promising moment. President Leslie H. Campbell best symbolizes the enriching wortli of our school ' s past and the hopes we share of her for a greater future as a senior college. He has led this institution as a man ever standing with firm convictions rooted in what the past of the school has taught, but always ready to move over the threshold to what the future may hold for the wise and courageous to claim. Fifty years! — a half-century of life invested in this college! To know the man is better to know and serve the school with which he has so tirelessly identi- fied himself. Clue to his seemingly boundless energy is his burning desire to see Campbell College lifted to higher opportunity and achievement.

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His deep affection for his own family in no sense separates him from his commitment to the college. Mother, brother and sister, wife, children and grandchildren — all are a teacher ' s evidence to him that life is good and meaningful. To detect the pride in his voice when he speaks of son or daughter, the gleam in his eye when conversation turns to a grandchild, the readiness to turn aside in a busy day to meet some need in the life of his aged mother, and the fleeting moment of serenity gratefully received from the sensitive hands of his gentle wife — this is to know one source of the man ' s strength. In this giving and receiving of affection and encourage- ment, he, one suspects, has gained the most, notwithstand- ing all his generous efforts in their behalf. His life has been steadied and nurtured in its central purpose by their quiet gifts of faith, hope, and love. Without him in their day-to-day experience, life would have been a dull and partial thing for his family. Witliout them, his contribution through this great institution would have been noticeably lessened. A snapshot made about 1924 Leslie the drummer and Carlyle the bather Mrs. Leslie H. Campbell, ivife of our president 15