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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upon retirement Campbell became active in a number of charity organizations. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities...
...summer long, Greek and Bulgar soldiers had lurked along the Evros, taking potshots at one another. The most serious skirmishes occurred on three swampy sandbanks named Alpha, Beta and Gamma that lie in the lee of the wooded Greek shore. Then one day last month a Greek patrol on Gamma island, which is about the size of a football field, walked into a Bulgar ambush and lost four men killed and two wounded. It became painfully clear to the Greeks that the Bulgars, egged on by the Russians who have a tank army close to the Evros, were determined...
Wood, who represented the rare combination of All-America athlete and Phi Beta Kappa student, was captain of Harvard's football team when he made the cover. Another TIME story a year later showed that he was doing more than just passing and running with the ball on the football field. With the help of his teammates, who smeared pin-pricked drops of their blood onto slides during the games, Wood was measuring the effect of exercise on white corpuscles in the blood...
Most of his time at College was spent in the Chemistry labs, where he had little trouble in doing all the required work and some original research besides. He made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated in three years, and was an active editor of the CRIMSON all the while. In those days the paper did not run by-lined stories and consequently it is difficult to assess exactly what he contributed, but one remembrance of his days as Assistant Managing Editor still remains in the form of a framed page from the AME's Report Book of the year...
...Beta Kappa officials yesterday announced the election of six honorary members. They...