Gerard Campbell, former president of Georgetown University who was a priest for 61 years and a Jesuit for 72 years, died Aug. 9, 2012. He was 92.
Campbell earned a bachelor’s degree in Latin from West Baden College in 1943, a master’s degree in history from Fordham in 1954, and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton in 1957, returning to Princeton for postdoctoral studies in 1962-63. He began teaching at St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia in 1945, and in 1957 he became professor of history at Loyola University Maryland for five years.
Campbell began at Georgetown in 1963 as executive vice president, and was named president in 1964, serving until 1969 (also being rector of its Jesuit community from 1964 to 1968). In 1969, he became provincial assistant for colleges and universities whereby he oversaw the five institutions in the Maryland Province. From 1974 to 1979, he returned to the novitiate as rector.
From 1979 to 1983, he had the dual roles of director and superior of the Woodstock Theological Center. He became founding director of the Center of Jesuit Spirituality in 1983, continuing until 2004. In 1965, Princeton awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree.
Campbell is survived by his sister, Mary Margaret Norton.
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