Special Collections & Archives

George McLeod (Mac) Bryan was a Wake Forest alumnus, earning both his BA (1941) and MA (1944) from Wake Forest College. He continued his education at Yale Divinity School and earned his B.D. (1947) and Ph.D. (1951). Bryan was a faculty member of the Wake Forest Religion Department from 1956 until he retired in 1987 as professor emeritus. Materials in this collection include biographical and personal materials, correspondence and photographs, subject files, and personal and others' writings, dating from 1900 to 2011.

This collection of postcards consists primarily of photographic postcards of theatre actors. Dated circa 1900-1910, the 99 postcards are autographed and many are addressed to "G. Sykes."

Gardner's Baptist Church was first an arm of Reedy Creek and later Farmer's Church until 1844 when it was constituted into a separate Baptist Church by Elder Thomas Willcox and N.M. Havens. The Church received its name from Elder Thomas Gardner who ministered to the people in the community. This collection spans from 1844-1931 and contains minutes of church conferences, articles of faith, membership rolls, treasurer's reports, and financial records.

Garland A. Hendricks (1913-2003) was a North Carolinian Baptist pastor and alumnus of Wake Forest College and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He wrote and spoke on the topic of rural churches and wrote several church histories. This collection contains biographical information, correspondence, and writings, including sermons, articles, and pamphlets.

Collection consists of research materials and survey results used in a cooperative research project by John R. Earle of Wake Forest University, Dean D. Knudsen of Ohio State University, and Donald W. Shriver of North Carolina State University. This project, entitled grew out of a response to by Liston Poper and resulted in the publication of (1976).

The Academic Urban Affairs Consortium operated as a non-profit organization engaging in education and charity programs within the Winston-Salem community. Members of the Consortium included Wake Forest University, Salem College, North Carolina School of the Arts, and Winston-Salem State University. Materials in this collection include correspondence, budgets, personnel and employment records, progress reports, project proposals, and contracts.

WFU's Compliance Program for the Bowman Gray School of Medicine and Reynolda campuses is a program to outline and communicate federal and state guidelines. Materials include two reports and outlines of these procedures and the compliance committee structure.

The Wake Forest University Civil Defense Committee was established in 1962. Materials include management guides, operation manuals, training materials, and memorandums.

The Wake Forest University Board of Visitors creates a line of communication to the Board of Trustees and the administration. Their communication includes: a study of needs, a study of resources, reccomendations to the Board of Trustees, and support for the Dean's priorities for the college. Materials in this collection include meeting agendas, meeting booklets, member lists, proposed member suggestions, and meeting minutes.

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An inaugural committee plans events for a new University president's inauguration celebrations, including a formal investiture and social events across a week or weekend. This collection contains certificates and letters congratulating Thomas K. Hearn on his new role as WFU's thirteenth president.

The Wake Forest Hospital Committee oversaw certain functions of the Wake Forest College Hospital during its operation. When the Wake Forest school of Medicine moved from Wake Forest to Winston-Salem in 1941, the hospital ceased operations as did the Hospital Committee.

The Wake Forest Literary Circle met once or twice monthly at a professor's house to discuss a book that had been assigned that month. Materials include a notebook detailing who was at each meeting and what they read.

The Wake Forest University Ministerial Council was founded by Wake Forest undergraduate alumni clergy seeking ongoing education opportunities and advocating for the establishment of a Baptist-affiliated Divinity School at the University. Materials in this collection include annual meeting schedules, member lists and addresses, meeting minutes, and Poteat Scholarship recipient information.

This collection contains records of Winston-Salem's Museum of Man, a former anthropological musuem that was located in Reynolda Village. It served as a site of classroom and lab instruction as well as a public research domain, and was administered mostly by WFU's Anthropology and Sociology Departments. Materials include annual reports, a promotional brochure, and lecture series programs, covering 1975-1979.

Wake Forest University's Oral History Project was undertaken by retired professor A. Lewis Aycock at the request of President James Ralph Scales. From 1970-1977, Aycock interviewed alumni, retired faculty and staff, and family members of former professors. Materials in this collection include correspondence and research, interview transcripts, biographical materials, and writings and speeches. Project finances and some of Aycock's personal materials are also included.

Wake Forest University hosted the first Presidential Debate on September 25, 1988 in the Wait Chapel. Repulbican candidate George W. Bush and Democrat candidate Michael Dukakis. Jim Lehrer of PBS moderated the debate with John Mashek of Atlanta Consitution, Peter Jennings of ABC, and Anne Groer of Orlando Sentinel as panelists. Twelve years later, a second debate was held on October 11, 2000, in Wait Chapel. Republican candidate George W. Bush and Democrat candidate Vice President Al Gore debated on stage for the 2000 presidential election. This collection contains materials related to the two debates that WFU has hosted, such as budgetary materials, planning documents, newspaper clippings and promotional materials, and correspondence.

WFU's Pro Humanitate Center is a vocational ministry organization that helps students understand the process of becoming a minister and their career after college. Materials include a promotional video compact disc, pamphlets, and brochures.

Thomas Jackson Simmons, Wake Forest alumnus (1883), established the Simmons Art Museum on June 2, 1941, on the Wake Forest College campus in Wake Forest, N.C. Materials in this collection include a formal letter written by Governor J. Melville Broughton, the museum's annual reports, museum catalogs, and a visitor's register. The museum became the WFU Simmons Collection, part of the University Art Collections.

The Tribble Inaugural Committee coordinated the inauguration ceremony for Dr. Harold Wayland Tribble, the tenth president of Wake Forest University.

J. Van Wagstaff ran the Urban Affairs Institute from 1968-1970. These are the papers of him in his role as director, consisting of budgets, proposals for grants and programs, minutes, and related materials.

The Wake Forest Foundation of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Inc. was incorporated August 1, 1947, to acquire property, make loans, and receive gifts on behalf of Wake Forest College. The collection contains a certificate of incorporation, meeting minutes, an annual report, and promotional flier.

The Wake Forest Women's Network was an organization on campus that supported women on campus and addressed gender inequality issues. Materials in this collection include meeting notes, correspondence, newsletters, and surveys. A small number of materials related to Art Collections are included.

George Carl Loven and Cordie Phillips Loven were North Carolinians who lived most of their lives in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. This collection contains their correspondence while Carl was training and deployed with the Army, 1917-1920. A small amount of other items include military and biographical materials, as well as two portrait photographs of Carl.

Rev. Dowell was a Baptist minister in North Carolina

George J. Griffin was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (1935) and a Professor of Religion at Wake Forest College and Wake Forest University, 1948-1981. His papers document his education, professional work, and work related to the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, including correspondence, writings, memorabilia, biographical information, and other subject and professional files.

George Jonadab Hobday was a Baptist pastor in Virginia. The collection consists of notebooks kept while he was a student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 1872-1874. They outline classes in systematic theology taught by William Williams, 1872-1873, and introductory lectures in Bible taught by William H. Whitsitt, 1873-1874.

Merrell was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1889), and a Baptist pastor in North Carolina.

George O. Marshall was an alumnus of Wake Forest College.

George Pennell was a Wake Forest College alumnus (1914) and Board of Trustees member. This collection documents Pennell's personal and professional interests. Materials document a variety of circuses and include legal documents, photographs, clippings, periodicals, posters, and correspondence.

Tunstall was a Baptist pastor and alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1910).

G.W. Greene was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1870), educator, and Southern Baptist missionary to China from 1891 to 1911.

George Washington Paschal (1869-1956) was professor of Greek and alumnus of Wake Forest College (class of 1892); editor of the Biblical Recorder; Baptist historian and author. George Washington Paschal's papers consist of biographical information and genealogical materials on the Paschal famiy; correspondence; writings and speeches; legal documents; maps; photographs; certificates and printed materials; research files; professional files; and Wake Forest College files. The bulk of the materials are for the period 1926-1954 and include his rough drafts and notes for his published history of North Carolina Baptists and his unpublished history of the Southern Baptist Convention's Foreign Mission Board.

George Washington Paschal, Jr., was born in 1909 and graduated from Wake Forest College in 1927. He was a medical doctor and surgeon who became a benefactor of Wake Forest College, later University, and served on the Board of Trustees. This collection documents a bit of Paschal's family life and his work with the Board of Trustees. Materials include biographical information, personal and family correspondence regarding internship and World War II experiences, writings such as articles and speeches, photographs, and subject files. Records regarding his time on the Wake Forest Board cover topics such as dancing, the relationship with the College charter, correspondence with other trustees and interested individuals, reports, minutes of the Board of Trustees, and the selection of a president.

George Bagby was doctor, editor, and writer from Virginia who was a Confederate supporter and soldier as well as a frequent lecturer and humorist. This collection contains 5 broadsides, printed circa 1870s, that advertise lectures by George Bagby.

Gerald W. Johnson was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1911), an author, and a newspaper reporter and columnist on the and other newspapers. His papers consist of biographical information; professional and family correspondence; education files from his studies at the University of Toulouse and Wake Forest College; financial documents; literary productions, including speeches, addresses, and book reviews; copies and clippings of his newspaper columns; magazine articles; his World War I notebooks, photographs, and memorabilia; photograph albums and loose photographs on the Duls, Haywood, and Johnson families; a postcard album; awards and certificates; honorary degrees; medals and insignia; scrapbooks of clippings; his subject files; and memorabilia including his academic regalia, his typewritter, and a lap-top desk.

Germaine Brée was a scholar specializing in 20th Century modern French literature, acting as WFU Kenan Professor of Humanities from 1973 to 1985. She lectured and wrote on writers such as André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marcel Proust, Marguerite Duras, Samuel Beckett, and Albert Camus. This collection contains writings, research, administrative materials, personal materials, travel materials, and correspondence.

The Conference Press was the creation of three UCLA students, Hal Levy, Gilbert A. Harrison, and William Bayard Okie. The collection consists of the publishers' archive for Gertrude Stein's book, (Los Angeles: Conference Press, 1940), as well as several Stein manuscript fragments and notes, offprints, reviews, and other Stein ephemera, mostly related to her 1934-1935 American tour.

Music manuscripts and theatrical memorabilia of Gertrude and Max Hoffmann, famous vaudevillian and performing arts figures. Gertrude Hoffmann was known as a vaudevillian, mimic, dancer, and the director of The Gertrude Hoffmann Girls. Max, one of the first arrangers to use ragtime rhythm, was a composer and musical director. The collection (1900-1956) includes music manuscripts, programs, photographs, playbills, notebooks, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks.

Stephenson was graduated from Wake Forest College in 1902, and a lawyer by profession. He was an active Baptist layman and author.