The Campbell Bequest

An unrestricted bequest of $100,000 to the College was provided in the will of Richard Crawford Campbell '86, who died at his home in Denver, February 15. Always a faithful and generous contributor to the Alumni Fund, his final gift to be applied by the Trustees to the use in which it will be of greatest benefit to the College is characteristic of his thoughtful generosity. It was Mr. Campbell who anonymously offered the prize of $1000 for music to Hovey's poem, "Our Liege Lady Dartmouth," the award of which is to be announced soon.

Mr. Campbell went to Denver in 1895 and became associated with the Rocky Mountain News at once, becoming within a few years general manager of the company. A later purchase of the Times independently, and a still later combination with the News produced the News-Times Company. Opportune sale was made in the latter part of the war period, and Mr. Campbell's direct interest in the newspaper game with which he had been so successfully associated since boyhood was terminated. After his retirement from newspaperdom, he entered the investment field and became one of the financial leaders of the West.

Richard C. Campbell, Jr., the younger son of Mr. Campbell, died during the war. Thomas P. Campbell, the elder son, graduated from Dartmouth with the Class of 1918.