Belhaven Prof Earns Humanities Teacher Award for 2007

The Northeast Ledger reports, Louis Campbell, "professor of theater and founding chair of the theater department at Belhaven College, recently received the Humanities Teacher Award for 2007. The Mississippi Humanities Council gives it to one humanities faculty member at each institution of higher education in the state...Campbell, 66, grew up in Colorado and attended Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where he met Laura, his wife of 43 years. He earned a master's degree at Brigham Young University, received a doctorate in theater from the University of Minnesota, then started a theater program at a Catholic school in La Crosse, Wis. He conceived and directed the first International Festival of Mime and Pantomime in 1974 in La Crosse. Later, he worked with Ohio State's theater program and consulted for 20 years in the United States and abroad before Belhaven asked him to start its program...His own books include Mime in Our Time, Biomechanics for the Actor and Mime in the Twentieth Century. He continues to be a consultant for theaters in the U.S. and abroad, having helped with more than 100 facilities. He's working with Jackson Academy and the Ruth B. Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Fla. He and his wife co-founded The Joshua Squad, a missions-based physical theater performance team involving students in service and ministry through the arts. He also founded the Enclave of the Arts, an international performing arts networking organization." (Read the Full Story Here)