Special Collections & Archives

Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management was active from 1969-2008. This collection i contains student headshots as well as alumni materials about Jack Kiran and John Medica.

Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management was established in 1969. In 2008, it combined with the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy to become the Wake Forest University Schools of Business. This collection contains materials related to ceremonies held by the Babcock Graduate School of Management, such as convocations and building dedications.

WFU's Babcock Graduate School of Management was established in 1969. It is now merged with the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy, and is now known as the School of Business. This collection contains faculty meeting minutes and reports as well as school founder Robert Shively's obituary.

Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management was established in 1969. In 2008, it combined with the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy to create the WFU Schools of Business. This collection contains bulletins, programs, and booklets about the Babcock Graduate School of Management. It also contains magazines and publications that mention the school, as well as a self-study report.

The Babcock School of Management was active 1969-2008 and then integrated into the WFU School of Business. Materials include programs from the Hylton Lecture Series, Broyhill Exectuive Lecture Series, and Babcock Leadership Series. It also includes correpondance with the graduate school and images of speakers, such as Henry Fiallo and Marijke Jergens.

Balkrishna Govind Gokhale was the first professor (1960-1990) in Wake Forest University's Asian Studies program. Materials in this collection include Gokhale's scholarly articles, a obituary, and bibliography drafts.

Baptist churches use various items as part of their rites and ceremonial occasions; they also may create commemorative mementos related to anniversaries and other notable events in church history. This collection contains various artifacts associated with North Carolina Baptist churches. Artifacts include commemorative plates and mugs; a small number of communion chalices and pitchers used for religious ceremonies and rites are also present.

The Baptist Church and Association Files Collection contains materials related to Baptist church and state associations across North Carolina; Churches and associations other Southern states are also represented, in small amounts. Materials in the collection include news clippings, meeting minutes, church directories, church histories, photographs and other graphic materials, handwritten notes, and correspondence, among other items. NOTE: All materials are available online in Special Collections and Archives' .

This collection includes Baptist church and association newsletters from organizations across North Carolina in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Newsletters disseminate important information to parishioners and to notify them of upcoming events. Materials in this collection include items on both microfilm and paper.

Amanda Bellamy Smart was born to a wealthy, plantation-owning family in Virginia in the early 1800s. Her collection includes correspondences with friends and family from 1831-1844.

Baptist newspapers often served U.S. regions by connecting groups of Baptists who shared similar interests in news. Baptist newspapers also may be used to publicize the actions of a certain church or group of churches outside the church's membership of regional area. This collection includes Baptist newspapers from around the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Collection consists of two items.

The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. The organization supports the work of state Baptist associations and individual Baptist churches throughout North Carolina. This collection contains audio reels from Baptist State Convention annual meetings and other conferences, workshops, and meetings, dating from roughly 1957 to 1980.

The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. The organization supports the work of state Baptist associations and individual Baptist churches throughout North Carolina. This collection contains VHS tapes from Baptist State Convention annual meetings and other conferences, workshops, and meetings, dating from 1985 to 2003.

Correspondence from Perry Morgan, A. W. Fleischmann, Cleo Mitchell and Mrs. W.R. Farmer, Jr., mentioning the history of the Baptist Student Union work at East Carolina University, Greensville, North Carolina, and an undated history sketch.

This collection features materials related to the Baptist Women in Ministry of North Carolina, a group that provides support for women who feel called to ministry, funds scholarships for Baptist women at their four partnering NC Divinity Schools, and provides opportunities for divinity school students to gain training, support, and experience in all areas of ministry. The collection consists of committee meeting minutes and correspondence, convocation programs, financial records, and printed materials such as newsletters and brochures. It also includes historical information about the group, as well as photographs and newspaper clippings.

Transcript of the diaries of Basil A. Thomasson, farmer and school teacher in East Bend-Yadkinville, North Carolina. Transcript by his grandson J.H. Thomasson.

Kurt D. Baum, sometimes Curt, was a young German Jewish boy when he was sent to the United States to escape Nazi rule in Germany. Over several years, beginning in 1937, Baum received letters from his family members in Germany. Materials in the collection include letters, government documents, and realia.

Bear Creek Baptist Church was constituted March 30, 1792, by Elders William Petty and Lazarus Whitehead. The collection contains records from Bear Creek Baptist Church. Materials in this collection include church history materials, meeting minutes, church covenants, and membership rolls.

The Fugitives were a group of poets and scholars who came together at Nashville, Tennessee's Vanderbilt University in the 1920s. This collection contains photographs of four poets, likely the poets Donald Davidson, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, and an undated audioreel.

Benson Field Cole was a Wake Forest College alumnis (1856), who died in late 1856. This collection contains two items from Cole's time as a Wake Forest student: a photocopied diary and a notebook containing course notes for philosophy and chemistry courses taught by William Gaston Simmons. It also contains clippings about Cole from the .