Jane Campen of Eau Claire, died peacefully at the Fall Creek Valley Care Center on Thursday May 20, 2010, one month short of her 102nd birthday.\r\nJane was born in Stevens Point, Wis. on June 19, 1908, to Allen Porter Temple and Blanche Wyatt Temple. She was raised in Springfield, Missouri, where her father was a science professor at the newly established normal school that later became Southwest Missouri State Teachers College, and she graduated from that same college. By the time she arrived in Eau Claire in 1930 to join the faculty at what was then Eau Claire State Teachers College (now the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire) at age 22, she had received her BA degree, taught school for one year in Mt. Vernon, Missouri, earned a Masters degree from Teachers College at Columbia University in New York City, and taught Latin for one year at what is now the University of Wisconsin - Superior. \r\nJane was a faculty member at the college for thirteen years, primarily teaching seventh grade and supervising student teachers at the college's Campus School. Although she left the college in 1942 for marriage and motherhood, she participated in university activities until well into her 90s. \r\nShe was an active sportswoman her entire life, and met her future husband, George Campen of Campen's clothing store in downtown Eau Claire, while horseback riding at the Bit&Spur Club. During their courtship, he introduced her to skiing and golf, and she remained an enthusiastic golfer at the Eau Claire Golf&Country Club from the early 1940s into the late 1990s. She was the Ladies Club Champion there in 1946.\r\nShe was an active member of the First Congregational United Church of Christ, and maintained a humane and progressive outlook even as much of the world around her veered right during the McCarthy era and again during the Reagan years. \r\nShe enjoyed socializing and playing bridge with a wide circle of friends, loved the theater, and was an avid reader of newspapers, magazines, and books.\r\nJane loved to travel. She and a friend made a grand tour of Europe in 1936, including the Olympic Games in Berlin. After her beloved husband George died in 1984, she took many interesting tours - to China, Africa, and Europe, as well as within the United States. \r\nShe is survived by her son Jim Campen, an economist in Cambridge, Mass.; her daughter-in-law, artist Phyllis Ewen; her two grandchildren: Georgia Ewen-Campen, an architect in New York City and Benjamin Ewen-Campen, a graduate student of biology in Cambridge, Mass.; her nephew Dean Jamison of Seattle, Washington; and her niece Kay Redfield Jamison, of Washington, D.C.\r\nShe was preceded in death by her husband George Campen in 1984 and her sister Mary Dell Jamison in 2007. \r\nThe family will hold a private service for burial of her ashes. Memorial gifts may be made to the Jane Temple Campen Scholarship Fund at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation.\r\n

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