Campion College, new Resident Hall, in honour of Paul Stenhouse MSC

While names like Magdalen College evoke the spires and cloisters of Oxford and the academic gowns passing to and fro, Australia’s first liberal Arts college is hoping the name Stenhouse Hall becomes synonymous with academic excellence in this country. Campion College will name one of its new residential halls after the late Father Paul Stenhouse MSC, a long-time friend of the college and staunch advocate for the liberal arts.

Father Stenhouse, who died in 2019, was a passionate supporter of Campion from its earliest days, serving as a member of the Campion Foundation Board. “Father Stenhouse was a renowned scholar and had a deeply Catholic perspective of the liberal arts and of the nature of Campion as a Catholic liberal arts institution”, Campion President Dr Paul Morrisey said.

“We think it fitting to honour Father Stenhouse by naming one of our residential homes in his memory.”

Stenhouse Hall will be one of four residential houses to open at the end of 2022 as part of a large construction program to cater to Campion’s growing student body.

Father Stenhouse was not only admired by many but regarded with something approaching awe by almost everyone the notoriously humble personality encountered. He edited the influential Annals magazine for decades, was an expert on Arabic language, history and studies and was admired by many much more famous journalists as one of the finest writers in the country.

The major feature under construction at Campion is an Academic Centre which will house a new library dedicated to the liberal arts including seminar rooms, office spaces and special collections dedicated to a particular author or topic.

The new academic wing will also include a large dining hall which will double as an event space as well as lecture theatres, tutorial rooms and an underground car park.

Those interested in supporting Stenhouse Hall can find the relevant information at www.campion.edu.au.