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Paul
Eugene Camp was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia on March 19, 1948,
arriving in Tampa, Florida in 1965. Enrolling as a student at the
University of South Florida, in Tampa, Paul received a Bachelor of
Arts degree from the University of South Florida in 1970, and his
Master of Science degree in Library Science, from the Florida State
University in Tallahassee, Florida in 1972.
Since
1972, Paul has served a specialized librarian in the Special
Collections Department of the University of South Florida’s Tampa
Library, working primarily with the department’s Florida History and
American Children’s Literature
 collections.
Mr. Camp also served as Acting Department Head for the Special
Collections Library from 1989 to 1991, and again from 1998 until
2000.
From
1979 to 1984, Paul served as Executive Secretary of the Florida
Historical Society and as General Secretary of the Florida Historical
Confederation.
From 1993 to 1999, Paul served as Director of the
Tampa Historical Society.
Paul’s
interests include Florida history, military history, historical
reenacting and collecting World War II sheet music. As a re-enactor,
Paul was the founder of the now popular Society of Creative
Anachronism and the first Medieval Society of re-enactors in Florida.
Paul today continues his work with the University of South Florida,
Special Collections Library and provides impressions for the Spanish
American War of 1898, the Spanish regular infantry and Cuban Mambi,
and World War II 197th Guards Rifle Regiment, Red Army of
Workers and Peasants; the French resistance or civilian and the
Italian partisan.
Paul
has over the years conducted, and has been responsible for much
research by others, in Florida’s Seminole Indian War periods, the
American Civil War and numerous other aspects of research. He has
served as a liaison between the University of South Florida and the
Florida Historical Society with researchers and the public at large;
serving both as a teacher and lecturer on a variety of subjects in
relation to history, preservation and rare collections of many types.
Paul
Eugene Camp has proven himself to be a professional in both the fields
of Library Science and historical research in general. |
