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Tutor Gordon Campbell, newly-appointed campanologist (bell-ringer), plans two numbers, one before and one after the Choir sings. He will be assisted by Paul M. Mabry '53 and David C. Stewart...
...happened in the middle of Sunday's carillon concert in the Lowell House tower. Gordon Campbell, House tutor, and recently appointed House bell-ringer, was working to a grand climax in one of his Muscovite bell symphonies. Suddenly, one of the chains securing the bells snapped. Campbell went on until another chain snapped. Then a third went, and more after that. A minute later, only three quarters of the 18 bells remained playable...
...acre ranch before going to the state legislature, which he called "The Follies of 1925" and regaled with tall ranch tales. One of the last of the costumed, showman politicians, he shaded his cat eyes and weatherbeaten face under a white sombrero, was considered a dead-ringer for Will Rogers by Rogers himself. To become governor, he "hung on to Roosevelt's coattails and rode like hell." He once astonished a Washington redcap by demanding: "Hell, boy, where's the watering hole?" When President Roosevelt wanted him to nominate for a Washington job a citizen of South Dakota...
Until yesterday, the bells could only be sounded upon notification from that august body, but at Monday's meeting of the Corporation it was decided to turn the entire problem over to Elliott Perkins '23, master of the House. Perkins was ceded the right to pick the bell ringer and to have the bells rung whenever he wanted to hear them...
Campbell succeeds Richard F. French, the former bell ringer who left last year...