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Abby Campbell

• Title: Admission Representative
• E-mail: acampbell@csbsju.edu
• Phone: (800) 544-1489
• Territory: Twin Cities, Alaska
• Hometown: Minnetonka, Minn.
• High School: Hopkins High School
• College: 2006 CSB/SJU Graduate
• Majors: English and French

College activities: I was a member of the cross country, track and nordic ski teams during my four years at St. Ben’s. I worked as a preschool teacher’s aide at a local elementary school for my work study job. I also served as a poetry editor for CSB/SJU’s literary magazine, Studio 1, and studied abroad in France. I was very busy, but I loved it!

Travels Abroad: I spent a semester during my junior year of college in Toulouse, France. After graduation, I returned to France to teach English at several primary schools in Pau. Pau overlooks the Pyrenees Mountains and I was lucky to be placed in a town with a beautiful view. I greatly improved my French speaking skills and had the opportunity to travel within France, around Europe and to Africa. I enjoyed working with my students, but quickly learned that teaching English to eight-year-olds (and teaching in general) is no small task. Thanks to teachers everywhere!

Favorite Books: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Ferdinand by Munro Leaf; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith; The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger; Good Poems by Garrison Keillor

Fun Facts:

• I love dark chocolate. The darker the better.
• Both my mother and brother have worked or work at the U.S. Naval Base in San Diego, California.
• While watching the 2005 London Marathon, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his family walked right by me.
• I completed the 2009 Twin Cities Marathon.
• My younger sister and I were born exactly ten years and ten days apart.
• The worst summer job I ever had was delivering phone books with my brother. We found an enticing announcement in the newspaper advertising good pay and flexible work hours. The pay was fairly good and the hours were flexible, but bagging and delivering thousands of phone books is not fun at all. We only lasted a couple of weeks, and found out that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is.

What impresses Abby about CSB/SJU: As a student, I found that CSB/SJU is an ideal setting in which to read, write, question, create and discover. The classes are small and intimate and the professors challenged me to continue beyond the first right answer. The woods, lakes and farm country outside of the classroom create a learning environment that offers a sense of focus, simplicity and purpose.

As an employee, I am proud to work for these schools because I believe they value and retain good people. Our experienced faculty, dedicated leadership and hardworking support staff are here to serve you, the student. Join us.