Editor’s note: The Seafarers LOG reserves the right to edit letters for grammar as well as space provisions without changing the writer’s intent. The LOG welcomes letters from members, pensioners, their families and shipmates and will publish them on a timely basis.Remembering Red
To the LOG and all the seafaring brothers who knew Red Campbell:
I knew Red Campbell since 1945 when I left the Army Transport Service to join the SIU. Red was one of the nicest people I have ever known. He was a good SIU union man. Whenever we’d meet, he always shook my hand and smiled and asked how I was doing, no matter how busy he was. Red seemed more like a flesh-and-blood brother to me, and not just an SIU brother.
While I never heard anyone say anything bad about him, I wanted to say something good—and I’m sure a lot of other seafaring brothers felt the same way, though many of them already have crossed the final bar.
The late SIU President Paul Hall was the same way. He never forgot a face and he always had time for me. I was surprised that he remembered I came from the Norfolk, Va. area.
In fact, I liked all of the old officials. They were good people and I’m proud to have known them. I’m also proud to have spent most of my life in the SIU before retiring in 1987. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Bruce E. Knight
Chesapeake, Virginia
Angus “Red” Campbell, retired SIU vice president contracts, died last September at age 84. His obituary was published in the November issue of the LOG and remains available on the SIU web site, www.seafarers.org
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