Earnest and Janie Campbell: Department of Chemical Engineering

LSU's Department of Chemical Engineering will benefit from a generous gift from one of its most successful alumni. Mr. Earnest "Dare" Campbell and wife, Janie, donated $75,000 in May to the LSU Foundation, establishing a Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust dedicated to LSU's Chemical Engineering Department. Earnest Campbell graduated from LSU with a degree in chemical engineering in 1949 after serving in the Army Air Corps in WWII. He went on to work at Dow Chemical Company where he was a Section Superintendent for 27 1/2 years and he helped to establish the Louisiana Division of Dow which is now a multi-billion dollar operation. Mr. Campbell retired from Dow at the end of 1983. Earnest and Janie Campbell are both natives of Louisiana. The two lived in Baton Rouge for many years and now reside in Destin, Fla.