Special Collections & Archives

WFU's Humanities Club was a interdepartment group established in 1936 meant to "represent the interests of those in its membership" through informal dinners, speaker events, and academic discussions. In 1982, Humanities Club split into two groups that had separate administrations but worked in close concert for event planning. Collection materials include meeting minutes, attendence records, and anniversary reports, as well as memorandums, club invitations, membership rosters, and event planning and personal correspondence for Group B.

The current faculty governing body of the Wake Forest University is the Faculty Senate; this collection documents materials related to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences. This collection contains College faculty meeting minutes, along with a small amount of meeting agendas, faculty member lists, and bylaws.

Faculty committees are service organizations with intent to maintain the tradition and vitality of WFU's day-to-day operations as well as long-term University projects. Current materials relate to the Committee on Fraternities, the Ad Hoc Antiracism Committee, Wake Forward, and other faculty clubs and committees are included.

This collection documents Faculty Marshals' involvement in Wake Forest commencements from 1975-1991. Materials include correspondence, meeting notes, and commencement programs. Faculty Marshals are senior members of the faculty who are nominated by the academic deans based on their outstanding service to the institution and excellence in teaching. They serve the institution as official ambassadors at university events, such as commencement and convocation.

Faculty and staff organizations provide support and scaffolding to University employees. Materials in this collection include faculty handbooks, emails, and publication lists.

Faculty and staff are routinely recognized at Wake Forest University, including an annual luncheon. These records document events for former and current Wake Forest faculty and staff, including programs and information on events such as talent shows and luncheons.

Founded in 2006, WFU's Staff Advisory Council serves as a pathway of communication between staff and administration. Materials in this collection include meeting agendas and minutes.

Fair Bluff Baptist Church was constituted in 1883. This collection includes two minute books (1887-1937).

Fairview Baptist Church was constituted in 1832. This collection includes membership rolls, church meeting minutes, a letter, and contribution records.

Falling Creek Baptist Church was founded in Goldsboro, North Carolina. This collection includes church meeting minutes from October 7, 1992 to October 3, 1993. They are typewritten on loose-leaf paper.

Falls of the Tar Primitive Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, N.C., was constituted as a Particular Baptist church in 1757. It became a Primitive Baptist Church in the mid-1800s. This collection includes church minutes and member rolls from 1757-1974 across seven volumes.

Fannie Exile Scudder Heck was the first president of the Woman's Missionary Union of North Carolina (1886-1915), and the first president of the Southern Baptist Convention Woman's Missionary Union (1895-1899, 1906-1915). She was one of the founders of the Carver School of Mission and Social Work, Louisville, Kentucky; an author; and editor of Her papers include biographical information; correspondence with North Carolina and Southern Baptist W.M.U. leaders and others; newspaper and magazine articles relating to her North Carolina and Southern Baptist Convention activities; photographs; addresses, talks, and writings, including notebooks of poems; a scrapbook of printed pamphlets by Heck and others; and miscellaneous books.

Farmington Baptist Church was constituted in 1878. Minutes of the Woman's Missionary Society are included.

Faulks Baptist Church was constituted in 1851. Materials in this collection include undated membership rolls of males and females with notes of dates of dismission, decease, etc., covenant, constitution, rules of decorum, church meeting minutes, and a list of school teachers.

Virginia Faye Tunmire worked as a missionary in the Philippines from 1956-1975.Through the different missions she travelled to different parts of Asia-Pacific to extend the international Christian outreach. Materials in this collection include correspondence, photographs, maps, newspapers and magazines. There is also a book relating to the Malaysian people.

This collection consists of two account ledgers for businesses in Fayetteville, N.C., located in Cumberland County, N.C. In one volume, the names A.E. Walters and Lydia Walters are written on the end papers and elsewhere.

WFU's Office of Sustainability opened in July 2009. Its goal is to provide guidance for students, faculty, and staff to gain knowledge, acquire skills, generate values, and become leaders in practices that help sustain a healthy environment. Materials include newsletters, event posters, announcements, promotional stickers, and postcards inviting others to events sponsored by the office.

First Baptist Church was founded in Durham, North Carolina. This collection includes a detached cover and a text block of a notebook. This volume also contains "Sunbeams Society" meeting minutes (1896-1900) and membership rolls of the society (1897, 1900).

The church met informally as early as 1850 under the leadership of Elder Elias Dodson. In 1859, Greensboro Baptist Church was formally constituted. The church has undergone three name changes: Greensboro, 1859-1887; West Washington Street, 1887-1902; and First, 1902. This collection contains a run of from 1951 to 1967, a small amount of other history materials, and audio recordings of sermons and talks from 1952-1974.

First Baptist Church, Mount Gilead, N.C., was constituted in 1861. Items included in this collection are two newspaper clippings from the Montgomery Herald titled (1999), titled "Hamer Creek Baptist" and "Church Bulletin", and church meeting minutes.

Church was constituted in Montgomery County, N.C. on May 5, 1861, as Hamer Creek and reorganized as Mount Gilead First Baptist in 1875. This collection contains church records from 1861 to 1971 with records from some dates missing.

First Baptist Church (Wilson, Wilson County, N.C.) was constituted May 6, 1860. It became First Baptist Church, Wilson, N.C. in 1916. The church has been a member of the Tar River, Roanoke [E], and South Roanoke Baptist associations. This collection contains the Church Sermon Records Book, hymn records (1919-1927), sermon and address records, pastor and deacon meeting minutes (1920), and marriage records (1919-1927).

Flat Rock Baptist Church was organized June 10, 1783 by William Petty. It was originally called Hunting Creek. Records consist of minutes of church conferences from Aug. 31, 1895 to Dec. 1917, including male and female membership rolls, treasurer's reports, and index to church members, reports of protracted meetings, a farewell service in the old church, Dec. 1913, and a list of pastors and clerks.