Special Collections & Archives

The Worrell House was acquired by Wake Forest University in 1977. Formerly known as the Hampstead House, the house was a gift from Anne and Eugene Worrell, and was renamed in their honor. Students can study abroad here during either fall or spring semester. This collection includes brochures and historical information on the Worrell house as well as London.

Miller was a Baptist pastor and co-founder of the Texas Christian Life Commission and Executive Secretary of the Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

WFU's Office for Educational Planning and Placement was established in 1978. The goal of the office was to offer guidance to students in educational planning and career development. The material in this collection is an annual report for the 1982-1983 academic year.

WFU's Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) was opened as part of the 2006 strategic plan's call to facilitate faculty development as a investment in Wake's scholar-teacher model. Beginning in September 2019, it was renamed the Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT). Material types in this collection include information fliers and newsletters.

WFU Dining Services . This collection contains newsletters and other written materials.

WFU Facilities and Campus Services maintain the buildings and landscape of the Reynolda campus of Wake Forest University. Materials in this collection include brochures, memorandums, and event programs.

Wake Forest University's Human Resources Department oversees the recruitment, hiring, training, retention, and firing of employees at the University. Materials in this collection include manuals, policies, awards, training materials, employee benefit packets, and memorandums.

Campus planning and space mangement is an ongoing enterprise at WFU, as the student body and campus buildings evolve over time. This work is part of the division of Facilities and Campus Services, overseen by an Associate Vice President of Planning, Real Estate, and Space Management. Materials in this collection include an expenditure and student flow report.

Wake Forest University's Office of Residence Life and Housing manages on-campus, undergraduate student housing enrollment, adjustment, and community-related relationships. Materials in this collection include housing related policies, housing agreements, staff mannuals, meal plan and residence and housing brochures, Deacon One Card policies, resident advisor materials, and parking pass information.

WFU's Student Health Services (SHS) provides medical services to University students and is affiliated with the Wake Forest Emergency Medical Services (Wake EMS). This collection documents the work of Student Health Services personnel and the construction of a health center. Also included are registers that contain lists of students along with hospital stay information and other treatment information.

WFU's University Police department was first mentioned in the in 1963; it is currently headed by Regina Lawson. This collection documents the work of WFU's campus police department. Materials include brochures, emails, guides, memorandums, news articles, and reports.

These records document the history of the University shops at Wake Forest. Materials in this collection include gift a catalog.

WFDD is a radio station, owned by Wake Forest University, that airs in 32 western North Carolina counties. The station programming includes news and talk shows during the day and switches to classical music after work hours. Materials in this collection include photographs, staff lists, show recordings, newsletters, and newspaper clippings.

In 1967, under the direction of Barbara Babcock Millhouse, Reynolda House became a public museum collection of American art and is a nonprofit institution dedicated to the arts and education. Collection materials include invitations, emails, newsletters, programs, promotional items, and reports.

Alan Preston Neely (1928-2003) was a minister, missionary to Colombia, and scholar of missions, ecumenics, and theology. He served on the faculties of Southeastern Baptist Seminary, Princeton Theology Seminary, and Duke University Divinity School from 1976 to 2000 and was instrumental in founding the Alliance of Baptists, an organization of progressive Baptists, in 1987.

Albert Clayton (A. C.) Reid was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (1917), Philosophy Department chair at Wake Forest for 46 years, and an author. This collection contains biographical information, correspondence, his literary productions (including articles, speeches, memorials, and prayers), certificates of membership, student papers, gradebooks, subject files, Wake Forest University files, and his Wake Forest College diploma.

Reverend Albert S. Hale was a Baptist minister from Hawkins County, Tennessee. He preached in various churches throughout Virginia and North Carolina. Contents include sermons dated 1977-1980 and Hale's funeral service in 1990.

This certified carbon copy of materials from the album of Reverend Alexander Bell Smith contains birth and death dates, family information, sermon notes, notes of a student, and a Civil War letter from M.A. Nelms to her husband Capt. E. Nelms, 9th Regt, Miss. Inf., November 15, 1861.

Alexander Farnsley was a farmer in the vicinity of Louisville, Kentucky. This collection contains reproductions of letters, made on the occasion of the marriage of his two great-granddaughters, and in 1962. The original letters were written to of Louisville, Kentucky.

This volume belonged to a doctor and lists his visits, prescriptions, and medical treatments of patients (including enslaved patients) in Oxford, North Carolina during 1831, and in Franklin County, North Carolina, 1831-1835. This volume contains a map of the Weldon-Garysburg, North Carolina area, ca.1831-32.

According to Wikipedia: "The moralized Ovid is a text manuscript anonymously with about 72,000 octosyllabic lines, and formerly erroneously attributed to Philippe de Vitry and a li Crestien Gois . He seems to have been written between 1317 and 1328 and is dedicated to Jeanne of Burgundy , Queen of France and wife of Philip V. Long . It is an adaptation of Metamorphoses 'of Ovid in Old French ."

The Alliance of Baptists, an organization of progressive Baptists, was founded in 1987. Known as the Southern Baptist Alliance until 1992, the group was dedicated to preserving Baptist freedoms, traditions, principles, mission, and ministry, especially those they felt were threatened by actions of the Southern Baptist Convention. In reaction to the fundamentalist movement in the SBC, the Alliance of Baptists promoted open inquiry, ecumenism, theological education, and social and economic justice. The collection includes correspondence, writings, and printed and financial materials. Some of the writings document both the activities of committees and officers of the Alliance and reactions of concerned parties to Alliance stances. Audiocassettes and videotapes document the Alliance's annual convocations and related conventions.

The Half-Century Club is composed of Wake Forest alumni who graduated from the school more than fifty years ago. Materials include photographs and Sesquicentennial questionnaire information from members of the Half-Century Club, classes 1912-1940.

Wake Forest University's alumni offices are dedicated to creating a network that connects Wake Forest alumni, friends, and family members. The office serves as a way for past students to engage with the growing Wake Forest community and maintain a closer relationship with their fellow alumni across the globe and across industries. Materials in this collection include brochures, directories, programs, postcards, and promotional materials.

The WFU Office of Student Engagement works to build community through student involvement on campus. Items in this collection include memorandums, booklets, newsletters, information cards, and promotional fliers.

The Wake Forest University Events team organizes and executes events. Materials in this collection include symposium and event programs, brochures, and calendars.

Wake Forest University's Alumni Office, now the Office of Alumni Engagement, manages alumni relations and development of the alumni program. Materials in this collection include campaign letters, meetings minutes, correspondence, reports, memorandums, press releases, publications, and pamphlets.

WFU's Wake Forest Fund aims to raise money for student aid, faculty development, emerging programs for students and library and technology resources. Items include memorandums, booklets, magnets, newsletters, and updates.

This collection documents the work and files of the Office of Communications and External Relations that have helped to shape the University's public image and reputation. Prominent faculty members, students, campus events, commencements, and academic programs are documented with materials including newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, magazine copies, pamphlets, and various audiovisual materials such as DVD discs and VHS tapes.

WFU's Office of Family Engagement provides information and support to families as did its predecessor, the Office of Parent Programs, in a more focused capacity. Materials in the collection include brochures, emails, stickers, and calendars.

Contains files on conference proceedings, Baptist Student days, January Bible studies, Poteat scholarships, Cause grant, the covenant relationship with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, and the proposed Divinity School.

Charles Sylvester Green was a Wake Forest alumnus, clergyman, newspaper editor, freelance writer, and Vice President of Wake Forest College. This collection contains subject files, church committee and association files, correspondence, Bowman Gray School of Medicine materials, and Wake Forest alumni and public relations materials.

WFU's Alumni Association creates a community for University graduates, hosting events and award ceremonies and providing updates on current campus happenings. The Alumni Association was created during the Wingate administration (1853-1862).

Alvada Gunn (later Durham) was a Southern Baptist Missionary to China from 1920 to 1926.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), founded in 1913, works to develop standards and procedures relating to faculty members at higher education institutions. The Wake Forest University AAUP chapter was founded February 4, 1949. This collection contains records of the WFU chapter and includes minutes from chapter meetings, member lists, correspondence, as well as national and state materials.

Anderson Grove Baptist Church was established in 1854 in Albermarle, N.C. This collection includes meeting minutes, record books, newsletters, membership rosters, newspaper clippings, and sesquicentennial anniversary materials.

Clements was a native of Wake County, North Carolina and apparently was involved in Baptist affairs in the 1840s. His obituary appears in the Dec. 21, 1892.