[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 7, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E40]
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    TRIBUTE TO THOMAS P. CAMPBELL, JR.--FATHER, GRANDFATHER, SCHOLAR

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                           HON. PETER T. KING

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, January 7, 1997

  Mr. KING. Mr. Speaker, I rise today, the historic opening session of 
the 105th Congress, to pay tribute to Prof. Thomas P. Campbell, Jr., of 
Waban, MA, an outstanding American and friend of my office who passed 
away in November after a long illness.
  Professor Campbell's life was marked by his extraordinary devotion to 
his family, his faith, his community, his profession, and his country. 
He led a life of involvement and accomplishment and was truly the 
embodiment of the American Dream.
  My thoughts and prayers are with Professor Campbell's family. On 
behalf of every Member of this House, I want to extend good wishes to 
his wife Anne, sons Tom, Ned, and Jim, daughter Molly, his daughters-
in-law and, of course, his four grandchildren. Like Professor Campbell, 
they demonstrated great courage and dignity during many difficult times 
in recent months.
  Mr. Speaker, at this time, as part of my tribute to Thomas P. 
Campbell, Jr., I want to offer into the Congressional Record an article 
from the November 13, 1996 edition of the Boston Globe that discusses 
his many achievements and his lasting legacy.

                 [From the Boston Globe, Nov. 13, 1996]

      Thomas Campbell Jr., Professor of Law at Northeastern; at 58

       Thomas P. Campbell Jr., a Northeastern University law 
     professor renowned for his legal scholarship and compassion 
     for students, died of cancer Monday at his home in Newton. He 
     was 58.
       Mr. Campbell was a professor at Northeastern since 1970. He 
     was honored by the university with a distinguished teaching 
     award in 1994, and was repeatedly chosen by graduation 
     classes to address them at commencement.
       ``Tom Campbell will be remembered as the pillar of teaching 
     excellence at this law school,'' Northeastern Law School Dean 
     David Hall said yesterday. He taught property law in a way 
     that students learned what they were supposed to learn.''
       Born in Manhattan and raised in White Plains, N.Y., Mr. 
     Campbell attended Brown University and the University of 
     Virginia Law School. He practiced on Wall Street and served 
     as assistant general counsel of the Melville Shoe Corporation 
     prior to his academic career.
       Former students yesterday recalled Mr. Campbell's gift for 
     breathing life into arcane and technical legal issues. Behind 
     a stern and stoic visage, they said, lay an elegant sense of 
     humor and infectious love for the law.
       ``Virtually everyone who ever took a class from him became 
     an admirer,'' said Suffolk District Attorney Ralph C. Martin 
     2d, who first encountered Mr. Campbell as a first-year law 
     student. ``He had a facility with the law and a way of 
     presenting the law that demystified it. He was just a prince 
     of a guy.''
       His property law course, one of the traditional first-year 
     requirements, helped introduce generations of Northeastern 
     students to the rigors of law school.
       ``He was an absolutely brilliant professor,'' said former 
     dean Dan Givelber. ``Students uniformly adored his teaching. 
     He will be remembered as a beacon of sanity in a confusing 
     first year of law school.''
       Mr. Campbell also played an instrumental role in the 
     affairs of the law school outside of the classroom. He set up 
     the first co-op program there in 1970, and spent a year as 
     acting dean in 1992.
       He also enjoyed a lifelong involvement with the Boy Scouts 
     of America, receiving the Silver Antelope Award, the highest 
     regional award in scouting.
       Colleagues say they saw a new and profound side of Mr. 
     Campbell in recent years as he struggled with illness. He 
     insisted on maintaining his normal course load and drove 
     himself to maintain his lofty standards of scholarship.
       ``He taught us much more than law,'' said Northwestern 
     associate dean Diane Tsoulas, another former student. ``The 
     phrase I think of for him is `lion-hearted.' He was 
     incredibly courageous in the face of illness and taught us a 
     great deal about courage and dignity.''
       Mr. Campbell leaves his wife of 36 years, Anne (Shanklin); 
     three sons, Thomas P. 3d of Roslindale, Edward S. of London 
     and James D. of Old Town, Maine; a daughter, Margaret A. 
     Campbell of Jamaica Plain; two sisters, C. Gale Brannan of 
     Sussex, England, and Anne C. Lyman of Pund Ridge, N.Y.; and 
     four grandchildren.
       A funeral Mass will be said at St. John the Evangelist 
     Church in Wellesley Hills tomorrow at 10 a.m. Burial will be 
     in Newton Cemetery.

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