Background
Campbell, Walter Stanley was born on August 15, 1887 in Severy, Kansas, United States. Son of Walter Mallory and Isabella Louise (Wood) Vestal.
Campbell, Walter Stanley was born on August 15, 1887 in Severy, Kansas, United States. Son of Walter Mallory and Isabella Louise (Wood) Vestal.
Graduate Southwestern State Normal School, Weatherford, Oklahoma, 1908. Rhodes Scholar, Merton College, University of Oxford, 1908-1911, Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, honors in School England Language and Literature, 1911.
Instructor, Male High School, Louisville, Kentucky, 1911-1914. Research among Indians, 1914-1915. Instructor in English, University of Oklahoma, 1915-1917, assistant professor of English, 1919-1928, associate professor, 1928-1939, professor and director of courses in professional writing since 1939, research professor, 1947.
Fellow Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1930-1931, Rockefeller Foundation, 1946. Served as captain, Held artillery, United States Army, 1917-1919. Director Association American Rhodes Scholars.
Member Modern Language Association, Society American Historians, Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Kappa Alpha (Southern), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Isabel Jones, December 26, 1917. Children: Malory, Dorothy.