Kleber Alexander Campbell, Jr.

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He began his career with Stobbs & Hartwell in Worcester, then founded his own practice. He was general counsel and a director of the then Freedom Federal Savings and Loan Association. He was a member of the Worcester County, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations.

The YMCA was a vital lifelong interest of his. In 1972 At the Third Annual Meeting of YMCA INTERNATIONAL DIVISION held in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was honored as follows:

"For 44 years of dedicated leadership, the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association takes pleasure in presenting to Kleber A. Campbell, Jr. its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award."

Kleber Campbell was first elected to the International Committee of the YMCAs in 1958 following a distinguished career in his own local Association, Worcester, Massachusetts. There he served as Chairman of the World Service Committee for seventeen years and a member of the Board of Directors for twenty years. He was president of the Association from 1952 to 1955., and is currently a member of the Advisory Board of Directors.

Mr. Campbell served as Chairman of the World Service Education and Income Production Committee from 1962 until 1971. It was during these critical years that Mr. Campbell led the challenge to the YMCAs in North America to help build and rebuild YMCAs and YMCA movements across the world. Gifts to World Service reached its highest point under his leadership. Following his retirement from the Chairmanship of the Education and Income Production Committee, Mr. Campbell has continued to give service to the Program and Budget Committee.

In 1965, Mr. Campbell was a delegate to the International World Council in Tokyo and then visited YMCA Movements in eight countries. His earliest work in the YMCA came in 1928 when he helped to develop a Y's Men's Club in the Worcester YMCA."

He was active as a branch chairman of the Red Cross, Vice-President of the Family Service Organization and a Director of the Bay State Society for the Crippled and Handicapped, Inc. He received the St. Thomas More Society's (an association of Catholic lawyers) Ecumenical Plaque in 1978 for "humane principles of good will and kindness to his fellow men and women". He received the Worcester YMCA Chairman's Award 1990 for outstanding service.

He was a member of the Worcester Kiwanis Club and Franklin Masonic Lodge. He was also a member of the Evangelical Congregational Church in Grafton.