George Kamp Collection, 1904-1978 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

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Collection Overview

Title: George Kamp Collection, 1904-1978

ID: COLL/139

Primary Creator: George Kamp (1892-1981)

Extent: 5.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Folder level description

Abstract

Business manager for Standard Oil of Ohio, statistician in the business office of Calvin College, and translator in Heritage Hall. The collection includes: sermons for reading services, correspondence for Calvin College, committee papers on interchurch relations, mission reports, Synodical Youth Committee papers, numerous articles translated from Dutch, book reviews, poems, and personal material.

Biographical Note

In 1904, George Kamp’s family moved from Almelo, Overijssel to Cleveland, Ohio. He was then a boy of twelve. Although he had almost completed his grade school education when he came to the United States, he had to begin again in order to learn the new language. However, he moved through the grades with rapidity and graduated from grammar school as the valedictorian of his class.

Although the Rev. J.R. Brink urged the family to direct George toward the ministry, family circumstances made the ministry an impossible goal. George worked for Standard Oil of Ohio for almost thirty years. For many of those years he was manager of cost and sales.

When George Kamp retired at sixty-three, he was asked to serve the college as a statistician in the business office. He was always keenly interested in the activities of the denomination and the school of the church. Next to his knowledge of the Bible, he knew the denominational Yearbook. He was a translator of many Dutch articles, an arranger of housing for Synodical delegates, an overseer of the flow of reports to the floor of Synods, a friend of ministers and always a willing servant in the church where he served as member. He served often as elder.

George Kamp passed away at the age of eighty-eight, March 14, 1981. His wife, Anna, passed away in 1988.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Sermon Collection, 1939-1942],
[Series 2: Calvin College Period, 1944-1978],
[Series 3: Denominational Material, 1934-1977],
[Series 4: Articles Translated from the Dutch, 1904-1975],
[All]

Series 3: Denominational Material --- 1934-1977

Box 3

Folder 1: Classical study on diaconate (Rocky Mountain). Constitution of the Holland-Zeeland Deacon's Conference --- 1949

Folder 2

Item 1: Classis Pella reports on church visiting --- 1936
Item 2: Synodical procedure --- 1936
Item 3: Missions --- 1941
Item 4: Evangelism --- 1944

Folder 3: Committee on Inter-church Relations: report and papers --- 1966

Folder 4

Item 1: Heidelberg Catechism: A New Provisional Translation --- 1973
Item 2: Harmony of the confessions

Folder 5: Indigenous mission policy report, CRC Board of Missions --- 1950

Folder 6: Mission reports:

Item 1: Board report to Synod --- 1942-1945
Item 2: Inspection Committee report --- 1946
Item 3: Harry Dykstra report to Board --- 1947
Item 4: Emergency Relief Committee for Korea letter --- 1951

Folder 7: Mission reports: from secretary and workers. Inspection Committee and Synodical --- 1944-1946

Folder 8: Navan case, Church in Ontario, Canada. On moving congregation --- 1965-1967

Folder 9: Reformed Ecumenical Synod Handbook. Sermon, membership, committees --- 1963

Folder 10: Reformed evangelism: method, report --- 1934

Folder 11: Synod: list of candidates --- 1974

Folder 12: Synod: correspondence --- 1975

Folder 13: Synod: correspondence and reports --- 1977

Folder 14: Synodical Youth Committee material --- 1943-1957