Biographical and Historical Note

Reverend Albert S. Hale was a Baptist minister from Hawkins County, Tennessee, born June 17, 1901. He preached in various churches throughout Virginia and North Carolina. He began preaching in High Point in 1948 and served as chairman on the Biblical Recorder's Board of Directors in 1953. He died in August 1990.

Hale's son, Albert S., Jr., was born November 19, 1933. He graduated summa cum laude from Wake Forest College (1954) and earned an M.D. from WFU's Bowman Gray Medical School (1958) and later a Radiology degree (1964). He finished is residency in Atlanta, GA, and joined the U.S. Air Force as a medical officer in 1959. From 1974-1989, Hale, Jr., served as Chair for the Department of Radiology at the Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. He died September 11, 2019.

Collection Overview

This collection contains fifteen audiocassettes recordings of Reverend Albert S. Hale. Contents include sermons from 1977-1980 and Hale's funeral.

Collection Inventory

• "What Manner of Child is This?," "What, Where?" (1977 February 4, December 11) box 1 item 1
• "I Didn't Know It - part 2," "God's Purpose" (1977 October 23, October 30) box 1 item 2
• "The Goodness of God," "Me First" (1977 November 6, November 13) box 1 item 3
• "Now What Do You Say?," "House-Home" (1977 November 20, November 27) box 1 item 4
• "Oil or Grit - part 1," "Oil or Grit - part 2" (1977 August 7, September 4) box 1 item 5
• "Oil or Grit - part 2" "Nothing Happened Today" (1977 September 4, September 11) box 1 item 6
• "No Vacancy," "Spread It" (1977 September 4, October 2) box 1 item 7
• "The Grace of God," "I Didn't Know" (1977 October 9, October 16) box 1 item 8
• "The Invitation to Christian Discipleship," "These Were Harnessed" (1978 January 1, January 8) box 1 item 9
• "These Were Not Harnessed," "He Was Not Harnessed" (1978 January 15, February 22) box 1 item 10
• "Murmuring," "Wanted: A New Search Committee" (1978 January 29, February 11) box 1 item 11
• "Forgetting," "Little Things" (1978 February 19, February 26) box 1 item 12
• "This Is That," "The Church" (1978 March 5, March 12) box 1 item 13
• "Oh!" (1980 August 18) box 1 item 14
• Hale, Albert S., funeral audio cassette (1990 August 5) box 1 item 15

Summary Information

Repository

Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives

Title

Albert S. Hale Audio Recordings

ID

MS682

Date [inclusive]

1977-1990

Extent

0.21 Linear Feet  1 half-document box

Administrative Information

Publication Information

Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for researchers. 

Copyright Notice

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Preferred Citation

Albert S. Hale Audio Recordings (MS682), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA. 

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