Student Organizations. Challenge Series Records
RG8.3
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives
English
1.3
Linear Feet
1 record carton
1962
1968
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.
Wake Forest University. Challenge Series
Historical Note
The Challenge speaker series was pitched in 1964 as student-administered symposium to include more critical, real-world dialogue at WFU. The Challenge ran from 1965 through the 1970s; the event likely concluded with the 1979 series.
The 1965 event topic was on the emergence of prominent Black Americans, with speakers Harry Ashmore, Daisy Balsley, Wiley Branton, William D. Campbell, Hodding Carter III, Thomas Dodd, James Farmer, Thomas Pettigrew, and Hobart Taylor Jr., among others.
The 1967 topic was the question of promoting student interests given global problems, with speakers James M. Buchanan, Dick Gregory, Herb Kaplow, Frank S. Meyer, L. Richardson Preyer, William Proxmire, Harry Reasoner, Edward K. Smith, Warren Smith, Craig Spence, and Norman Thomas. George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party, also spoke.
Collection Overview
This collection contains records of the 1965 and 1967 Challenge speaker series. Contents include event planning materials, speaker biographies and correspondence, research materials, newspaper clippings, event programs, and purpose statements.
Preferred Citation
Student Organizations. Challenge Series Records (RG8.3), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
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Challenge '65Accounts paid and receipts11Advisory Council records1964196512Appreciation note cardcirca 196513Budgetcirca 196514Contributor appreciation letter1965 January 1215Contributors outreach materialsundated16Correspondence1964196517Division of Entertainment materials1964196518Division of Funds materials19641965110-12Division of Programming materials19641965118Division of Publicity and Public Relations materials19641965122Division of Registration materials1965 February-March125Event proposal and related materials19641965113Event publicity newspaper clippings1965 March123Foundations support outreach and correspondence1964196519Invitation cards with envelopescirca 1965114Lodgings Committee materials115Magazine and related publications materials1965116Magazine advertising materials19651967117Programs and event schedule1965120Progress reports1965121Press releases1965124Research materials126Speakers' agencies correspondence and related materials19641965158Speakers materials19641965127-29Sperry and Hutchinson County Lectureship Program materials19641967159Speakers materials: acceptedAshmore, Harry S.1965130Balsley, Daisy F.19641965131Branton, Wiley A.19621965132Campbell, Will D.19641965133Carter, Hodding, III1965134Carter, Robert Lee19641965135Cumming, Joseph B., Jr.1965136Dodd, Thomas Joseph1965137Farmer, James1965138Fleishman, Joel L.1965139Hayes, Harold T. P.19641965140Hentoff, Nat19641965141Jackson, Joseph H.1965142Kirk, Russell19641965143Lomax, Louis E.1965144Lyford, Joseph P.1965145McKnight, C. A.1965146Osborn, George Coleman1965147Pettigrew, Thomas F.19641965148Pfaus, George S.1965149Preyer, L. Richardson1965150Rusher, William A.19621965151Smith, McNeill19631965152Taylor, Hobart, Jr.19641965153Thompson, Frank, Jr.19641965154Wendt, Lloydcirca 1965155Whitehorne, Robert A., 1925-1965156Winters, John W.1965157Challenge '67Accounts paid and receipts19661967160Advisory Board materials1966161Advisory Board invite declination letters1966162Banquet materials1967163Brochures and related planning materials19661967164Church contributors correspondence1966167Contributors outreach materials19661967circa 1966-1967166Contributors thank-you correspondence1967193Contribution letters19661967168Correspondence19661967169Faculty outreach materials1966170General proposalcirca 1966171Purpose and topic choice statement19661967circa 1966-1967194Press releases and publicity materials19661967175Program planning materials1967172Progress reports1966174Proposed budgetcirca 1967165School registration materials19661967circa 1966-1967176Speaker hospitality materials19661967circa 1966-1967192Speakers Committee materials19661968191Speakers correspondence19661967190<part>Time Magazine</part> event advertisement correspondence1966173Speakers materials: acceptedAccepted speaker correspondence and résumés1967177Buchanan, James M.19661967178Gregory, Dick19641967circa 1964-1967179Kaplow, Herb1967180Meyer, Frank S.1967181Preyer, L. Richardson1967182Proxmire, William19661967183Reasoner, Harry19661967184Rockwell, George L.19661967circa 1966-1967185Smith, Edward K.19651967186Smith, Warren1967187Spence, Craig1967188Thomas, Norman1967189