Academic Departments. Speech Communication and Theatre Arts Department Records
WFU's Speech Communication and Theatre Arts Department was an academic department, circa 1940s-1990s, that directed the curriculum for theater production, speech courses, and media communication. This collection contains correspondence and subject files, scrapbooks from the Anthony Aston Society, correspondence, financial documents, photographs, faculty materials related to Julian Burroughs, speech communication professor and former WFDD station manager.
Biographical and Historical Note
The Speech Communication and Theatre Arts Department was an academic department at Wake Forest University that directed the curriculum for theater production, speech courses, and media communication. The department existed from circa 1940s-1990s. The department was involved in the creation of courses, major requirements, and other production materials. Originally having a Radio-TV-Film concentration, the department later developed into having a liberal arts emphasis. This department played a large role towards current organizations and departments at Wake Forest, such as the Anthony Aston Society, Communications department, and Theater department.
This collection also includes materials regarding Julian Burroughs, a professor of speech communication from 1958 until his retirement in 1994. Burroughs served in the US Army from 1946-1948. He later acted as WFDD's station manager from 1958 to 1981. Burroughs taught courses in public speaking, acting, directing, writing for radio and television, and radio-TV-film production.
Collection Overview
This collection contains correspondence, subject files, financial documents, photographs, and materials related to theatrical productions. Items by and about Julian Burroughs are also included. Twenty-two scrapbooks, wrapped in paper, document the Anthony Aston Society.
Administrative Information
- Publication Information
- Processed by: John Woodard; machine-readable finding aid created by Apex, 2021 November
- Revision Description
- Revised by Justin Cabiltes, 2022 January
- Access Restrictions
- This collection is open for use.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright for materials resides with the creators of the items in question or their descendants, unless otherwise designated. Users of this collection are responsible for using the materials in conformance with U.S. copyright law.
- Preferred Citation
- Academic Departments. Speech Communication and Theatre Arts Department Records (R16.27), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.