H.W. ‘Wib’ Kamp, Professor Emeritus of political science who worked at North Texas from 1950 to 1984, died Dec. 24 in Denton. A former chair of the Department of Political Science, he was instrumental in the formation of the political science doctoral program and the Master of Public Administration program. He also was chair of the oral history committee and served on the Faculty Senate. He was the last surviving member of the Denton Charter Committee, which wrote the Denton city charter in 1959, and also served on what is now the Public Utility Board for Denton in the 1950s and 1960s. Kamp was a University Honors Professor in 1974 and received the Regents Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research in 1975. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Hendrix College and master’s and doctoral degrees from Columbia University, where he also taught. During World War II, he was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving as a cryptographer in North Africa.
H.W. ‘Wib’ Kamp, Professor Emeritus of political science who worked at North Texas from 1950 to 1984, died Dec. 24 in Denton. A former chair of the Department of Political Science, he was instrumental in the formation of the political science doctoral program and the Master of Public Administration program. He also was chair of the oral history committee and served on the Faculty Senate. He was the last surviving member of the Denton Charter Committee, which wrote the Denton city charter in 1959, and also served on what is now the Public Utility Board for Denton in the 1950s and 1960s. Kamp was a University Honors Professor in 1974 and received the Regents Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research in 1975. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Hendrix College and master’s and doctoral degrees from Columbia University, where he also taught. During World War II, he was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving as a cryptographer in North Africa.
