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