1964
Cordelia Camp

Dr. Cordelia Camp (1884 – 1973) of Asheville, retired educator, received the award in 1964 for authoring books on the life of two North Carolina governors: Zebulon Baird Vance and David Lowry Swain, and for her contributions to the teaching of North Carolina history in the schools. Camp, a native of Rutherford County, was a former member of the Western Carolina College faculty and served as secretary-treasurer of the WNC Historical Association beginning in 1959.