Special Collections & Archives

The Snow Hill First Baptist Church was organized on January 4, 1850 by a presbytery consisting of Elders Harley Minor, J.M.C. Breaker, and Jacob Utley with brethren Jones and Wheeler. This collection contains minutes of church conferences, membership rolls, treasurer's account, and financial records.

Sophie Lanneau was a graduate of Meredith College, and a teacher and Southern Baptist Convention educational missionary to China, 1907 to 1951. She founded the Wei Ling Girls' Academy in Soochow (1911) and was interned by the Japanese in 1942. She was repatriated to the United States in 1943 but returned to China in 1946, where she remained until 1950. Her papers consist of biographical information; correspondence files; educational files; financial and legal documents; her writings and other literary productions; talks given; Chinese literary materials; literary productions of others; notebooks; pictorial materials; printed materials and certificates; her professional files; a scrapbook; and artifacts. These materials relate to her missionary and teaching career as founder of the Wei Ling Girl's Academy in Soochow [now Wusien], China.

Southeastern Regional Medical Center is a medical facility located in Lumberton, Robeson County, N.C. In December 2020, the medical center was renamed UNC Health Southeastern. The Department of Pastoral Care was started June 1, 1957, with the employment of Reverend Sam Bagby. This collection contains a history of the Pastoral Care department, written by Revered George Dean Carter in September 2004, and a booklet entitled , published in 1959.

The Special Collections and Archives Teaching Collection contains items to be easily accessed and used in instruction within Special Collection and Archives, Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Some items may be duplicate copies of University-related materials present elsewhere in our collections.

Spradlin Memorial Baptist Church was founded in New Hanover County, North Carolina. The church is a part of the Wilmington Baptist Association. This collection contains minutes of church conferences from November 6, 1957 (as Fernside Baptist Church), including membership rolls and lists of church officers and ministers, the church constitution and bylaws, correspondence, membership records, subject files, treasurer's records, and Vacation Bible School materials.

Stanley First Baptist Church was founded in 1863 and formerly named Bruington Memorial. This collection includes church meeting minutes, rules of decorum, and membership lists of male, female, and African American members.

Garner was a Baptist worker with the Yadkin County, North Carolina prison unit.

Steve Nedvidek holds a master's degree in theater from WFU (1987). After graduating, Nedvidek had a 30-year career working in communications, innovation, and marketing for Chick-fil-A, Incorporated. He is also a co-author of the award-winning graphic novel series . This collection contains his black-and-white illustrations from 1985 to 1987 that Nedvidek created for . Topics addressed include U.S. foreign policy, N.C. laws, University administrative decisions, student life, and sports.

Stony Hill Baptist Church was constituted on November 22, 1884. This collection contains minutes of church conferences, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, and some loose papers.

This club, with a limited membership, was made up of ladies from the "first" families of Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Baptist Students Concerned (1968-1970) was a progressive student group formed by North Carolina Baptist Student Union members to attend the Southern Baptist Convention annual meetings 1968 through 1970 to address issues of racism, poverty, and war. Stuart Sprague, Ph.D. (1947- ) played a key role in the activities of Baptist Students Concerned, collected and created the documentary history of the group, and wrote and collected writings by others about the group's activities. This collection primarily documents the formation and activity of Baptist Students Concerned and the trajectory of the Southern Baptist Convention through correspondence, conference material, news reports and clippings, typescript and manuscript documents, and a photograph. There are also National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion records, including annual meeting programs and reports.

WFU's Campus Kitchen, started in 2006, is a division of the University's Pro Humanitate Institute and member of the national The Campus Kitchens Project. This collection contains documents and artifacts related to its operation, including promotional items, banners, posters, photographs, reports, and educational portfolios.

Wake Forest University's Campus Recreation aims to enhance the quality of life for University students, staff, and faculty through programs and facilities designed for all ability levels. Materials in this collection include emails and statistics on services offered through Campus Recreation.

The Office of Wellbeing offers classrooms for training and programming, massage therapy and wellbeing coaching, and nutrition workshops. It focuses on eight areas of wellbeing: emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual. The materials in this collection include alcohol and other drug awareness coasters, announcements about Reynolds Gym, Office of Wellbeing newsletters and emails, Outdoor Pursuits calendar, new wellbeing-related projects, signs of stress campaign, Thrive promotional material, Wellness Center initiative fundraising and construction booklets, and a World Mental Health Day card.

Theme Years held at Wake Forest University consist of monthly forums, interactive web site, film series, service opportunities, organized by students and faculty around a specific topic. Materials in this collection mainly include materials from the theme year "Year of Religion in American Life," including programs, preparation, and correspondance; one folder is an item related to the year "Fostering Dialogue: Civil Discourse in an Academic Community."

WFU's Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Center promotes undergraduate research, facilitates faculty and student collaboration, and hosts an annual presentation of undergraduate scholarly activities. This collection contains documents related to its operation, including committee meeting minutes, program evaluations, executive reports, budgets, promotional materials, participant lists, and conference programs with abstracts.

WFU's Afro-American Society was founded by Howard Stanback and Freeman Mark in 1969; the Afro-American Society later became the Black Student Alliance. The collection contains programs, booklets, photographs, and memorabilia documenting the activities of both the Afro-American Society and the Black Student Alliance.

Alpha Phi Omega is the largest co-educational intercollegiate service organization in the United States. Materials in this collection include articles and fliers.

The Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity was chartered on Wake Forest College's campus in Wake Forest, NC in 1940 and still remains chartered on Wake Forest University's campus in Winston-Salem. The materials in this collection include the constitution and bylaws for the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.

The Wake Forest Baptist Student Union was founded in 1921 on the College campus in Wake Forest, North Carolina, campus. Materials in this collection include pamphlets, emails, newspapers, and magazines.

The Challenge symposium was a biennial student-run speaker series with the intent of bringing more global issues into Wake Forest dicourse, starting in 1965 and likely concluding in 1979. This collection contains 1965 and 1967 event records. Material types include event planning materials, speaker biographies and correspondence, research materials, newspaper clippings, event programs, and purpose statements.

The Chi Psi fraternity was established at Wake Forest University in 1986. Materials in this collection include a newsletter an invitation.

The Cullom Ministerial Conference was a student organization that operated in the first half of the twentieth century to support future pastors and to further students' Christian education with religious discussions, sermons, and hymm singing. This Baptist organization hosted guest speakers from the Winston-Salem community as well as all over the country. Materials in this collection include the organization's constitution, by-laws, meeting minutes, reports, and correspondence.

The Delphi Society was a local women's society created in 1985; in 1993, it became the Zeta Tau chapter of the Delta Gamma Fraternity sorority. Materials in this collection include photographs, Delta Gamma constitution, correspondence, and new member materials.