the school at the convent, Mike had ultimate responsibility for a Trinity archeological progra~ that required daily visits to the Villa della Pineta Sacchetti, a pensionestyle hotel on the other side of Rome. He was directing and teaching on the Aventine (his class in Italian soared from twenty to thirty-four after the first week); then at intervals
convocations at which he dealt with questions and complaints ranging from bus schedules, textbooks, rescheduling of class times, broken slide projectors, and trivial collegiate complaints abo_u t food . One student complained that strawberries had been the dessert for " three days in a row; and there was the usual unsophisticat~d advice that the Italians should Mike went by car- it often took Professor Michael Campo, circa 1970. fifty minutes at peak traffic time stop serving pasta with every to face the problems of the neophyte diggers who had to lunch. Mike had designed a curriculum and assembled a staff that attested to his keen academic acumen. There be transported to introductory lectures being offered by the Gruppo Archeologico located just behind Castel were courses in art, music, classics, and sociology. Several students, under the tutelage of Paul Smith, were reading SantAngelo. The students made the not unreasonable complaint that the lectures were in Italian. This was conThe Marble Faun and other American and English novels concerned with Italy. Most of the teachers were from trary to the assuranc~s that Mike had received before the sessions started. In the midst of taking th~ Aventine group Trinity - Mitchel Pappas, Alan Tull, Paul Smith - and on a tour of the catacombs, Mike finally produced an Mike had enlisted the services of Professor Arnoldo English interpreter for the archeologist. The catacombs Franchetti in music and David Belmont (Trinity '59), a brilliant young classicist from Washington University in come to mind because I have a dim and perhaps imprecise recollection that he found there an interpreter in the St. Louis. Professor Len Moss ofWayne State taught courses in the sociology of contemporary Italy and he and person of a Biafran studying at the University of Rome. Many of these problems today seem comic and their Mike guided walks around Rome in their sparse free time Waugh-like resolution, as in the case of the Biafran, even during the day and at night when they explored the more so, added to the tasks that daily faced Mike at the delights ofTrastevere and the Capitol. The antiquities convent. Six double rooms never materialized; several and the customs and traditions of Rome, and indeed this small rooms were being completed the day we arrived. In can be said of so many Italian cities, can be a lesson in taste and good manners. Seve;al students adopted a kind the emergency, Mike found accommodation for several students in small hotels close by. Meanwhile, there were of cosmopolitan persona. Some of them whom I see nowadays from time to time are quick to recall that the blown fuses, plumbing problems, bad lighting, and a complete absence of minimal storage space. Mike calmly summer of 1970 was the most memorable summer of and firmly - this was no forum for uncertainty - held their salad days. •
At a reception honoring Campo, second from left, he is joined by, left to right, Professor of History and Director ofltalian Programs Borden Painter '58, former Dean of the Faculty Andrew DeRocco, and Northam Professor of History Emeritus George Cooper.
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