{"id":16184,"date":"2010-07-02T08:10:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T12:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=16184"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:36:37","slug":"a-mothers-wish-becomes-her-sons-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/07\/a-mothers-wish-becomes-her-sons-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mother’s Wish Becomes Her Son’s Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"<p>Patrick<\/a>
Patrick Campion '83. Photo provided by UConn Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In what can only be called payback for every parent who has spent countless hours driving teenagers to events and activities, Patrick Campion \u201983, spent his teenage years doing the opposite.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother went back to community college in her 40s,\u201d he says. \u201cWe often had one car, and through all of my teenage years, we were always dropping off and picking her up from school.\u201d<\/p>\n

His mother eventually was awarded her master\u2019s degree in hospital administration and had a successful career at Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown. Her example, and her unfailing commitment to her children\u2019s education and her own, resonates with her son to this day.<\/p>\n

Campion has given $50,000 to the UConn Foundation to establish the Patrick M. Campion Scholarship Fund in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences<\/a>, with a President\u2019s Challenge match that will double the award students receive from his gift. HSBC, Campion\u2019s employer, will also partially match his donation.<\/p>\n

Campion worked his way through school, flipping hamburgers in the Student Union on the Friday night late shift. He also was a resident assistant and an assistant in the dean\u2019s office in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember every year all I wanted to do was go to Cape Cod for the summer and my mother said, \u2018That\u2019s nice, but you\u2019re going to work in the factory,\u2019 because it paid $10 an hour and we made enough to pay our tuition for the next year,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

He also worked during high school for a family of lawyers in his hometown of Waterbury, becoming immersed in Wall Street and the financial markets so completely that he declared economics as his major at UConn. Now CEO of the U.S. Private Bank at HSBC in Manhattan, Campion is keenly aware of the importance of his gift.<\/p>\n

\"Campaign\u201cWhen the recession hit, I knew that it was probably very difficult for some students to afford college,\u201d he says. \u201cIf a student is academically capable of getting into UConn and doesn\u2019t have the resources to pay for it, I think that is a shame and I\u2019d like to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

All his life, thanks to his mother\u2019s lead, he has set goals for himself. Now his goal is to help UConn students as they set theirs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was young, we didn\u2019t have the resources to go to college, and my mother drove us to apply for scholarships and student loans and jobs,\u201d he says. \u201cThat enabled me to attend UConn. So I couldn\u2019t be happier that I\u2019ve helped to create this scholarship; it\u2019s the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information about supporting the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, please contact the UConn Foundation\u2019s development department<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick Campion\u2019s mom urged him to apply for scholarships. Now he\u2019s helping others do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[43],"class_list":["post-16184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 00:37:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36462,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184\/revisions\/36462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16184"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=16184"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}