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Indianapolis Women's Oral History Project Indianapolis Women’s Oral History Project: An Interview with Martha Lamkin COPYRIGHT © 2019 INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy and recording or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the William H. Smith Memorial Library, Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, 450 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202-3269. PREFACE Indianapolis Women’s Oral History Project The following interview is one of a collection of oral history interviews devoted to collecting life stories of prominent Indiana women involved in business, education, law, philanthropy, politics, and religion. All of the women interviewed for this project were selected from within the membership of The Gathering, an informal networking group of approximately 175 Indiana women leaders which began around 1990. This group meets four times a year over lunch to hear from speakers and guests on subjects of interest to the group that facilitate discussion and enhance knowledge of current issues and events. There is no organized fundraising by or on behalf of the group, no lobbying, no partisan political activity, no charitable or volunteer commitments required. The Indianapolis Women’s Oral History Project (initially known as The Gathering Oral History Project) was organized in 2013 by the members of The Gathering and conducted with the assistance and supervision of the Indiana Historical Society (IHS). This manuscript was transcribed from a digitally recorded interview conducted on August 29, 2013, in Judge Sarah Evans Barker’s chambers, Birch Bayh Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Indianapolis, Indiana, by Judge Sarah Evans Barker, a member of The Gathering. Data Logistics Control, INC, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, transcribed the interview in 2017, and Wendy L. Adams, director of oral history at IHS, lightly edited the transcript in 2019. The interview, which includes the audio recording, the transcript, and photographs of Ms. Lamkin, is housed at the William H. Smith Memorial Library, Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, Indianapolis, Indiana. Martha S. Dampf Lamkin was born in 1942 in Talladega, Alabama, to Keith J. Dampf (1911– 2006) and Neva Magness Dampf (1916–2005). At an early age, her parents moved the family to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and then on to Artesia, New Mexico, where she spent much of her childhood. When a teenager, she moved to Barstow, California, where she graduated from high school in 1960. She received her bachelor’s degree in English literature and music in 1964 from California Baptist College (now California Baptist University) in Riverside, California, and then attended Vanderbilt University, where she received a master’s degree in English and American literature in 1966. She met and married Dr. Eugene Henry (Ned) Lamkin, Jr. in 1968, while living in Indianapolis. After teaching English at Indiana State University, she pursued and received a law degree from Indiana University School of Law in 1970. After graduation, Ms. Lamkin served on the Indianapolis Human Rights Commission, which led to her being asked by Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut to serve on the Indianapolis Public Housing Authority in the late seventies. At the request of Sen. Richard Lugar, she served as the Indiana manager for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1982 to 1987. During this time Ms. Lamkin also served as the vice chair of the first International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. She accepted the position of executive director of corporate responsibility and government affairs at Cummins Engine Company in 1987, went on to become the president of Cummins Engine Company Foundation, and then left Cummins for the position Indianapolis Women’s Oral History Project – Martha Lamkin i of executive vice president of corporate advancement at USA Group, Inc. in 1991. During her tenure at USA Group, she was appointed by Mayor Stephen Goldsmith to serve on The Indianapolis Foundation board, where she was involved in founding the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF) and its Women’s Fund. Before retiring from full-time employment in 2007, she served as president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation (formerly USA Group, Inc.) with assets of $1.3 billion. Throughout her career and in retirement, she has served on and chaired various boards of directors and trustees, including The Indianapolis Foundation, CICF, Christian Theological Seminary, Citizens Energy Group, Meridian Mutual Insurance Co., Christel House International, The Indiana Academy, Women4Change, and the Hoosier Capital Girl Scout Council. As the chair of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra board from 2007 to 2014, she played a significant role in guiding the symphony through an economically challenging time. Ms. Lamkin and her husband have two children—Melinda Magness Lamkin Magaddino (b. 1970) and Matthew Davidson Lamkin (b. 1973). The Lamkins currently reside in Indianapolis. Readers of this oral history interview should bear in mind that it is a transcript of the spoken word. Although the transcript has been lightly edited, IHS has diligently sought to preserve its informal, conversational style, as well as the integrity of the interview’s content. IHS is not responsible for the factual accuracy of the interview’s content or for the views expressed within. The interview may be used for private study, scholarship, or research. Permission to reproduce or publish this interview, whether in whole or in part, must be obtained from the William H. Smith Memorial Library, Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, 450 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202-3269. Indianapolis Women’s Oral History Project – Martha Lamkin ii Indianapolis Women’s Oral History Project Interview of Martha Lamkin Date of interview: August 29, 2013 Location: Judge Sarah Evans Barker’s chambers, Birch Bayh Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Indianapolis, Indiana Interviewer: Sarah Evans Barker Note: This transcript has been lightly edited and contains post-interview edits provided by Ms. Lamkin. Any additions provided by her are indicated with brackets. Sarah Evans Barker: This is Sarah Evans Barker, who’s conducting the interview of Martha Lamkin. This is part of The Gathering’s oral history project. Today is August 29, 2013, and we are here in the courthouse in my chambers, where Martha has been many times before for visits. She is my dear friend and so she has allowed me to conduct this oral history. So, it’s my honor to do this oral history. Martha Lamkin: Your honor, it’s my honor. SEB: So, thank you, Martha, for submitting to this and more importantly for creating a record that will be part of the women’s history collection that will be accessible to future generations, perhaps even including your own children and grandchildren along the way, so that they can see your life and the wonderful, beautiful arc that it is from start to where we are now—not finished, just where we are today on August 29, 2013. So, it’s a good thing we’re doing today. So, I’ll get the ball rolling by asking you to tell me about your parents. Tell me about where you grew up. Tell me about your parents’ early days; how they met. Maybe something about, if you know, where your family would have emigrated from into the United States originally and so forth. Go back so far as you can go. ML: My parents grew up in the Ozarks of Arkansas. My dad was from Marshall, Arkansas, which is in Searcy County. My mom grew up in Western Grove, which is a little north of that in the northwest corner. Indianapolis Women’s Oral History Project – Martha Lamkin 1 SEB: What were their names? Your mom’s maiden name? ML: My mom’s maiden name was Neva Magness and her mother was a Robinson. My dad was Keith Dampf—D-A-M-P-F—and his grandfather emigrated from Bavaria, And, we have some rather good records, thanks to one part of his family who’ve done quite a bit of research. His great-grandmother—my three great- grandmother—was believed to be half Cherokee and she traveled on the Trail of Tears from Tennessee to Arkansas. She had three children and was pregnant with the fourth, I believe, and the father’s family did not accept her. This was during the days of the Civil War, and he was wounded in the war and his family kept him and she went on the road of tears with these four children all by herself and raised them, then, in northwest Arkansas. So, we’re— SEB: Now who was that again? That was your father’s grandmother? ML: Grandmother, yes. And we need to further research the Cherokee part of our family because moving forward today, our son is now in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Native American heritage matters a very great deal. So, a research project to do on the horizon there. SEB: So, did your father know those relatives? Did he know the aunts and uncles, who would have been his grandmother’s children? ML: Yes, he knew his aunts and uncles. His mother died fairly young. I didn’t think to bring a history book, but there’s a two-volume work of the Baker family, who did research back to the landing at, I think, Plymouth, which is kind of interesting because my husband’s family— (pauses) my husband’s mom was quite proud of the fact that she was a member of the DAR—and our daughter could be—and I had never even focused on my side of the family, since we were just from the Ozarks. But that’s— SEB: So, your father grew up in Arkansas? Indianapolis Women’s Oral History Project – Martha Lamkin 2 ML: He grew up in the Arkansas [Ozarks].
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