This information about Campbell Residence Hall and Frank M. Campbell is provided in the dedication program:
Frank M. Campbell Residence Hall:
"The new Frank M. Campbell Residence Hall, located on Payne Street directly across from the G.C.L. Riemer Student Center, is a high rise structure with seven floors above the basement and a total area of one hundred thousand squre feet. It will provide on-campus residence for four hundred fifty students and accommodations for a head resident and six counsellors in addition to the student rooms. Besides the residence quarters, the building provides many other facilities for the pleasure and convenience of students. Among these are study rooms, recreation rooms, television viewing rooms, laundry facilities, guest rooms, and student and public lounges. Construction is with structural steel frame on concrete footings and foundations. The masonry walls are faced with red brick. Window frames are aluminum. The final construction plans include a parking area, sidewalks, and landscaping and also the furnishings and equipment. The total cost of the structure at completion will be approximately three and one-half million dollars.]
Frank M. Campbell:
"The late Frank M. Campbell was truly a man for all seasons on the Clarion State College campus. During his long career here, which began in 1938, he was at various times assistant dean of men, head resident of Egbert Hall when it was a student dormitory, instructor in French and Spanish, a member of the Music Department, and the Social Studies Department, supervisor of student teachers, and for a full decade director of the Alumni Office and editor of Alumni Association publications. He taught an almost unbelievable array of courses over the years in English, history, languages, music, sociology, and professional education, and at one time he served as principal of the Salem Township school and for a period during the war he was an assistant personnel director at the local Owens-Illinois plant. At the time of his death on February 25 of this year, he was instructing a class of forty-five students in social studies teaching methods and supervising the work of twenty-four student teachers assigned to public schools in a wide area beyond the campus. As well as being dedicated to his professional responsibilities, Mr. Campbell had an intense and completely sincere interest in people that reached from campus to community. The town held him in high regard. The National Ensign above the U.S. Post Office was flown at half-mast for him, the first time such a community tribute has ever been accorded a member of the college faculty. It seems especially appropriate that the college should dedicate a residence hall to Frank. He had a very special interest in students which he evidenced both with his teaching and with his support of all sorts of activities outside the classroom. He chaperoned summer language trips to Mexico, assisted in the first organization of the Clarion State College Band, helped found at least two of the national fraternity chapters on campus, and served as Honorary Faculty Marshal at the annual commencement for several years. Most of all he was a friendly counselor and confidant for hundreds of students during his thirty-four years here, a sharer in their moments of happiness and sorrow, a mourner at a youth's untimely passing, an honored guest at their weddings and the christenings of their children. Perhaps the essence of his life and character and the significance of the place he filled in the lives of students were best expressed in the simple, unpretentious tribute of a student editorial writer in the Clarion Call for March 3, 1972: 'If Frank Campbell gets as much fullness and enjoyment out of his afterlife as he did out of his first, he will be a happy man indeed. We will miss him.'"
