ALUMNI PROFILE
ABOVE RIGHT:
ABOVE LEFT:
Campbell (fifth from right) participating in a fashion show on campus in 1958.
Campbell (kneeling, bottom right) as a member of the Hi-Fi’s, Holy Family College’s first athletics team.
Holy Family Loyalty for More Than Six Decades
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any members of the Holy Family
for Campbell. “Holy Family was the best thing
University community can refer to
that ever happened to Gini Campbell,” she
themselves as lifelong Tigers because of
reflects happily. “It brought me out of my shell,
their commitment and connection to the University.
which my parents tried to do for years. Maybe it
In the case of Virginia “Gini” (Fluehr) Campbell
made me too outgoing, but that depends on who
’60, her long association with Holy Family even
you talk to!”
predates the institution’s Tiger mascot—and even most of the buildings on campus today! Campbell decided to attend Holy Family College
classmates,” she says. “If something was good, we
close to home—quite literally in her case. “I went
shared in the laughter. If something wasn’t good,
to Holy Family because I lived across the street,”
we shared in the tears.” She credits the many on-
she explains, though she does list other reasons for
campus activities and events for helping her to
attending. "Financially, Holy Family was something
become less shy around others. Though some of
that I could readily afford. Holy Family was smaller
those Holy Family traditions continue today, such
than the grade school and high school that I went
as the annual Christmas Rose, others are no longer
to." Campbell, the oldest of 12 siblings, jokes, "In
part of the University’s culture.
with! So, I got to meet people.” But the small size of Holy Family College was an aspect that was incredibly advantageous FA L L 2 0 2 1
camaraderie because we got to know each of our
only a few years after it opened because it was
some cases, it was smaller than the family I lived
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Campbell grew close with her classmates and developed lasting friendships. “We had a
One example? The College’s dress code. “If you look at the rules back then, they are totally different than they are today,” Campbell remembers. “Every Friday you could dress casual,
