Rachel Harris Campbell Original Poetry Unique San Diego

Original 1930s Poetry Collection From San Diego Poet Rachel Harris Campbell

Certain Poems, by Rachel Harris Campbell (1970), typewritten manuscript, 32pp.

About the poet: Rachel Harris Campbell was a poet and published author in the 1930s in San Diego. Her book was The Potters Field (Boston: Walter H. Baker Co. 1939).

This collection of her poetry she selected and typed up in 1970 for the birthday of a friend is likely the only extant copy, although much of her work is in the Special Collections/Archives at the San Diego State University Library, and many of the poems were previously published in magazines and anthologies.

About the prior owner: Sue Wolfer Earnest, better known as Dr. Sue to the many that admire her, was born Sept. 19, 1907; the same year John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn and Rachel Carson were born. Graduating in 1928 from what was then called San Diego State College, she married classmate Lester Earnest that same year. At the time, the world was in awe of Amelia Earhart's becoming the first woman to successfully pilot an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. What's more, as the low rumblings of women's rights were beginning to stir, Sue's own journey as a female academic trailblazer was about to take flight.

A master's from San Diego State in 1938; a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1947; then teaching and serving as an administrator in San Diego City schools. Sue's accomplishments were all the more remarkable in an era where Rosie the Riveter was urging women to work in the munitions industry. Years later, the end of WWII meant a return to hearth and home for many women. But for Sue, it meant returning to her alma mater, this time as a member of the San Diego State faculty.

A professor of speech arts, Sue witnessed the evolution of that program into the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the newly named San Diego State University, where she taught for 26 years, 18 of which she served as chair. Dr. Earnest died in November 2007 at the age of 100.

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