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 1: Sermon Collection --- 1939-1942

Box 1

Folder 1: Sermons for reading services authorized by Synod, vol. I, section A --- 1939

Folder 2: Sermons for reading services, vol. I, section B --- 1940

Folder 3: Sermons for reading services, vol. I, section C --- 1940

Folder 4: Sermons for reading services, original copies, section A --- 1942

Folder 5: Sermons for reading services, vol. II, section B --- 1942

Folder 6: Sermons for reading services, vol. II, section C --- 1942

Folder 7: Sermons for reading services, original copies, section A

Folder 8: Sermons for reading services, original copies, vol. III, section B

Folder 9: Radio sermons on The Reformed Hour, Cleveland, Ohio. Rev. E. S. Holtrop --- 1939-1940

Folder 10: Radio sermons on The Family Altar, Cleveland, Ohio. Rev. D. J. Drost --- 1940-1941

Folder 11

Item 1: Sermon of Dr. H. Stob, --- November 15, 1959
Item 2: Two unidentified sermons

Folder 12: Talks --- undated

Series 2: Calvin College Period --- 1944-1978

Box 2

Folder 1: Personal papers --- 1961-1978
Folder 2: Descriptive poem on Rev. C. Boomsma, written by Kamp (?)
Folder 3: Correspondence for President Spoelhof --- 1958-1970
Folder 4: Correspondence for Calvin College --- 1959-1963
Folder 5: Correspondence for Calvin College --- 1964-1974
Folder 6: Correspondence of Board of Trustees meeting --- 1977
Folder 7: Denominational Reference Service of Calvin College. Translated articles, first issue --- 1966
Folder 8: Today's student: statement and questionnaire --- undated
Folder 9: World Council of Churches: constitution and publications
Folder 10: World Council of Churches issue I: Evaluation by Gereformeerde Kerken --- 1965-1967
Folder 11: World Council of Churches issue II: Evaluation of Christian Reformed Church. Synodical report --- 1944
Folder 12: World Council of Churches issue III: Committee on Ecumenicity and World Council. Synodical committee --- 1965-1967
Folder 13: World Council of Churches issue IV: the nature of the church and its ecumenical calling. Two papers

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

Series 4: Articles Translated from the Dutch --- 1904-1975

Box 4

Folder 1: Albeda, W. "The Diaconate," Zwolle --- October 10, 1973

Folder 2: Baayan, P. C. "Mathematical Language," Free University --- December 15, 1967

Folder 3: Bakker, G. "Ymedam: Past and. . . Future" --- undated

Folder 4: Beets, H. "The CRC in North America: Sixty Years of Struggle and Blessing" --- 1968

Folder 5: Boerhorst, R. H. "A Talk About the States of America" --- 1935

Folder 6: Broene, Geert. Autobiography, translated by J. Broene

Folder 7: Bucer's Idea of the Relation Between Philosophy and Theology

Folder 8: Goudzwaard, B. "Modification of the Economy," from Kerkenformatie --- Feb-75

Folder 9: Hart, Klaas. Articles from the Wachter --- 1959-1965

Item 1: "Unrest for the Church"
Item 2: "The General Synod"
Item 3: "Church of the Clergy"
Item 4: "A Prayer for Peace"

Folder 10: Haverkamp, William. Editorials from the Wachter: --- 1962-1974

Item 1: "Well-grounded Criticism"
Item 2: "At Last an Admission"
Item 3: "Playing Fast and Loose with the Truth"
Item 4: "A New Writer"
Item 5: "Responsible Separation?"

Folder 11: "Homophilia," a report for discussion in the Gereformeerde Kerken --- 1972

Folder 12

Item 1: Kaardingerbroek, J. "Old Testament Data" --- undated
Item 2: F. W. R. Polman, "New Testament Data"

Folder 13: Kamp, H. T. "Emigration Trip From Almelo" --- 1904

Folder 14

Item 1: Kuitert, H. "Without Faith No One Will Prosper," reviews and reactions
Item 2: Abraham Kuyper, "Sphere Sovereignty" --- October 20, 1880

Folder 15

Item 1: Matse, J. "Significance of Mourning Process"
Item 2: H. Faber, "Role of Life in Mourning Process" --- undated

Folder 16: Meuleman, G. E. Articles concerning scripture, from the Gereformeerde Weekblad --- July - August 1960

Folder 17: Meuleman, G. E. Articles on election and reprobation, in the Gereformeerde Weekblad --- October 1964 - January 1965

Folder 18: Noordewier, J. "An Octogenarian," an autobiography, mimeograph of translation

Folder 19: Noordewier, J. "An Octogenarian," an autobiography, handwritten translation

Folder 20: Report of Christian Reformed Synod, from an article in a Dutch magazine --- 1962

Folder 21: Ridderbos, H. N. Articles from Gereformeerde Weekblad --- 1959-1975

Item 1: "Concerning the Authority of the Scriptures"
Item 2: "A Parting of the Way I - IV"
Item 3: "A Partial Report on Our Travels"
Item 4: "Family Visiting"

Folder 22: Van Andel Genealogy, handwritten translation

Box 5

Folder 1: Vander Houde, C. Review of "The Heritage of John Calvin" in Gereformeerde Weekblad --- February 3, 1974

Folder 2: Van Harmelen, J. Articles in De Wachter --- 1962-1967

Item 1: "A 'Quotum' Letter"
Item 2: "The ARSS"
Item 3: "Blauwkamp's Brochure"

Folder 3: Van't Veer's article on Christological preaching --- 1968

Folder 4: Vos, Geerhardus. Letters to A. Kuyper on the translation of Kuyper's Encyclopedia --- 1886-1897

Folder 5: Verkuyl's "The Purpose and Aim of Mission," translated by F. Klunder

Folder 6: Wierenga, H. "Gereformeerde Kerken Synodical Letter," Gereformeerde Weekblad --- 1974

Folder 7: Wind, A. "Report of Visit to Synod 1974," in Leidse Kerkbode --- October 25, 1974

Folder 8: Woltjer, H. R. "The Age of the Earth," from Christelijke Encyclopaedie

Folder 9: Selected articles --- 1959-1960

Folder 10: Selected articles --- 1962-1964

Folder 11: Selected articles --- 1967-1978

Folder 12: Selected articles, handwritten translations. No authors or sources given --- undated

Folder 13: Blacquiere, H. J. "Coronation Feast of Queen Wilhelmina, North Brabant --- 1898"

Folder 14: Boerwinkle genealogy, first installment by Wilma Wierenga

Folder 15: Infallibility issue. Articles, some translated from Dutch --- 1960

Folder 16: Nymeyer, F. "An Analysis of and a Counter Overture on Divorce" --- 1937

Folder 17: Spoelman, P. "What is Wrong with the ARSS?"

Folder 18: Stek, John. Addresses to Synod of Haarlem, Gereformeerde Kerken --- 1974

Folder 19: Geestelijke Lieder uit den Schat Van de Kerk. Organ score

Folder 20: Miscellaneous translations and articles