Special Collections & Archives

Wake Forest's Board of Trustees Architect's Committee seems to have begun around June 1951, formed to prepare to move the College's campus from Wake Forest, N.C., to Winston Salem; this move was often referred to as "the removal." Members of the committee included Board of Trustees members, School of Medicine men, as well as the campus architect Jens F. Larson and his son and business partner Nils Larson. This collection documents the work of Wake Forest College's Architect's Committee in preparing to move the campus. Materials include minutes, correspondence, and notes by and about the Committee. Two sets of filled out questionnaires document faculty satisfaction at both the College and School of Medicine. Letters from both pro- and anti-Tribble parties are represented in the collection, as well as the transcripts of interviews with various campus parties in December 1955 conducted by the Special Committee to Investigate the Welfare of Wake Forest College.

Irving E. Carlyle was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (1917) who became a lawyer in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and trustee of Wake Forest College and Bowman Gray School of Medicine, later Wake Forest University School of Medicine. His papers contain personal, legal, and financial records, subject files, and other files relating to his service to Wake Forest University and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. The files contain extensive correspondence with leading politicial figures in North Carolina. Also included is information on the relocation of the College from Wake Forest, N.C., to the Winston-Salem campus.