Camps, Miriam (1916–1994)
Camps, Miriam (1916–1994)
American state department official and author on international affairs. Born Miriam Camp in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1916; died of lung cancer, age 78, in Little Abingdon, Cambridge, England, on December 30, 1994; sister of Paul R. Camp and Margaret Schwartz ; earned degrees at Mount Holyoke and Bryn Mawr colleges; married William Anthony Camps (a classicist at Cambridge University), in 1953.
Miriam Camps was the first woman to be vice chair of the U.S. State Department's Planning Council. Born Miriam Camp in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1916, she studied at Mount Holyoke and Bryn Mawr before joining the State Department during World War II and working at the U.S. embassy in London. From 1947 to 1953, she worked for the State Department in Washington, D.C., then resigned to marry William Camps, a classicist at Cambridge University. Miriam Camps returned to the State Department from 1968 to 1970 as vice chair of the Planning Council. Her books included Britain and the European Community (1964), What Kind of Europe? (1965), and European Unification in the Sixties (1966).