You are right! From Google...As the center was preparing the list of hurricane names for 1969, John suggested Camille as the "C" name, in honor of his daughter. Little did John Hope know that both he and his daughter would make history in 1969. Camille became the second most powerful hurricane to reach land in the history of the United States, and John was covering the storm.
The nice thing about John Hope is he would cut through the BS with the other forecasters getting all excited and gloom and doomy about the storms. He had a way of calming people down yet being deadly serious. Back then, the Weather Channel was a great source for information. Now, they are just another news network.