Dorothy Campbell
Dorothy Campbell | |
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| Born | August 9, 1909 Monroe, Louisiana, USA |
| Died | January 12, 1994 Franklin, Louisiana, USA |
| NSA member | South America 1953 - 1957 B.P.C.E.V. 1957 - 1961 Ecuador 1961 - 1968 |
Dorothy Campbell Rougeou (August 9, 1909 - January 12, 1994) was an American Bahá’í who pioneered to South America where she assisted with the development of Bahá’í communities and served as a National Spiritual Assembly member.
Biography[edit]
Campbell was born Dorothy Morton to parents Daisy and Oliver in Monroe, Louisiana, in 1909. She studied at Louisiana College in Pineville graduating in 1928 and she began a career as a High School Spanish teacher. She met James Rougeou while they were both students at the college and they married but separated after completing their studies.[1]
Campbell became a Bahá’í in 1942 while living in Jackson, Mississippi, and immediately became an active teacher of the religion. In 1950 she embarked on a travel teaching tour visiting Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Peru, and Bolivia, and in December that year she settled in Sucre, Bolivia, and began serving as secretary of the Bahá’í Publishing Committee for Latin America. In 1952 she was appointed as a delegate of the Bahá’í community to the United Nations Regional Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in La Paz, Bolivia.[1]
In 1953 Campbell was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of South America as Secretary and moved to Lima, Peru, to serve in the role. She was elected to a Regional Spiritual Assembly responsible for part of South America in 1957 and in 1961 she moved to Ecuador where she was elected to the inaugural National Spiritual Assembly of Ecuador. She attended the First International Convention as a delegate of Peru in 1963. She served on the Assembly until 1968 when she was transferred to El Salvador in her professional career.[1]
In 1973 Campbell returned to the United States where she reconnected with James Rougeou and they remarried. She passed away in Franklin, Louisiana, in 1994.[1]
