Special Collections & Archives

Porter Brown Byrum (1920-2017) was a lawyer, businessman, and philanthropist from Charlotte, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest with a JD in 1942, and his donations to Wake Forest University from 1993-2007 have funded hundreds of scholarships for undergraduate students, law students, and student athletes. This collection consists of materials documenting the personal life and philanthropy of Porter B. Byrum.

This family scrapbook contains photographs, mounted and loose clippings, and other items relating to the Poteat, Bender, Gunter, Hendrix, Williamson and Dodson families. There is information on Ida Isabelle Poteat, William Louis Poteat, Edwin McNeill Poteat, Edwin McNeill Poteat, Jr., Hubert McNeill Poteat, J. Douglas Poteat, Ernest Lindsay Poteat, and James P. Gunter.

Francis Pendleton Gaines was president of Wake Forest College, 1927-1930. This collection contains correspondence and subject files from Gaines' tenure as College president.

Nathan O. Hatch was the thirteenth president of Wake Forest University and a scholar of religious history in America. This collection documents the years of his presidency, 2005-2021, as well as some of his personal life. This collection also contains unprocessed materials.

For more information about Dr. Nathan O. Hatch, thirteeth president of Wake Forest University, please see , Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives. This minimally processed portion of records from the office of Nathan Hatch will be added to the full record collection when resources permit.

Dr. Susan R. Wente became Wake Forest University's 14th president on July 1, 2021. Materials in this collection include emails, news articles, and certificates.

WFU's Public Information Office, now known as the Office of Communications and External Relations, is the official headquarters for managing the University's media. Collection materials include correspondences, faculty records, news releases, speeches, proposals and resolutions, questionaires, office records, as well as various campaign and committee records.

is a student-run literary magazine that publishes a variety of visual and literary artistic forms including art, poetry and prose. Issues,typically published once a semester, in print and/or digital format, are distributed on campus free of charge. This collection includes Spring publication issues from 2000 and 2001 and student artwork slides.

The is WFU's student-run newspaper, named after the school's colors. The newspaper was founded in 1916 and is published every Thursday during the school year with the exception of school holidays and exam weeks. This collection includes fliers, an article, promotional materials, an index, and issues of the paper.

Wake Forest University students publish materials other than the main campus publications, which include yearbook and the newspaper. Materials in the collection include promotional items, photographs, publication issues, and other writings.

is the annual yearbook publication for Wake Forest University that documents campus organizations, events, athletics, academic departments, and student life. This collection includes drafts, newsletters, promotional materials, articles, drawings and sketches, and photograph layouts used to plan the yearbook's publication. Also present are newspaper clippings regarding racist content present in from 1903 to 2019.