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Mason H. Campbell, Former Dean at URI, Dies

MASON H. CAMPBELL, dean of the College of Agriculture and director of the agricultural experiment station at the University of Rhode Island from 1942 until his retirement in June, 1959, died at Rhode Island Hospital recently. He was 66.

An outstanding authority on dairying and other phases of agricultural science, Dr. Campbell was the author of a number of scientific publications and was sent by the U. S. Government on two foreign assignments.

In 1954 he was given a year's leave of absence to serve as chief agriculturist in Egypt for the Foreign Agricultural Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. In this capacitv he directed Point Four technical aid for Egypt's agricultural program.

In July of last year Dr. Campbell represented the United States as a consultant to the conference of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation in Paris.

A native of Genoa, Ill., Dean Campbell earned the Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois in 1917.