Wallace J. Campbell; Founder, Former President of CARE

Wallace J. Campbell, 87, a founder and former president of the international aid group CARE. At the end of World War II, Campbell was asked to set up a package delivery service to supply food and other aid to people displaced during the war. The result was CARE, which originally stood for Cooperative for American Remittances Everywhere. He enlisted 22 volunteer service groups and international relief agencies to serve as a cooperative thwarting postwar food shortages in Europe. Campbell headed CARE’s organizing committee, served on its board and was president from 1978 until he retired in 1986. In 1990, Campbell wrote the book “The History of CARE: A Personal Account.” As world needs changed, he helped move the organization into development projects in Third World countries as well as its original relief efforts. Campbell, a resident of Washington for more than three decades, also served as president of the Cooperative Housing Foundation in Washington from 1964 to 1975. On Jan. 7 in Los Angeles of pneumonia.

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CARE, at its founding in 1945, stood for the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe. The name was later changed to Cooperative for American Remittances Everywhere.

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