Jack Campbell ’49

About 64 years ago, Jack Campbell ’49 came to Cornell to be a writer when Professor Clyde “Toppy” Tull told him he was “too imaginative” to be one. So Campbell, who agreed with Tull’s assessment, majored in history and went on to have a long career as a professor of history education until he retired in 1992. Coming full circle, Campbell has spent his retirement writing books, including his recent Guantanamo Remembered, a work of fiction based on his time in the Navy. Soon he plans to publish two novellas generated from his Cornell master’s thesis “Hog Butcher for the World,” based on the meat packer’s strike in the late 1940s. Campbell, who lives in Bryan, Texas, hopes to attend his 60th reunion in October.