WSSU Baseball, Softball and Women's Tennis Teams Win CIAA Championships

The Archives would like to extend a congratulations to the WSSU Baseball, Softball, and Women's Tennis Teams.  Each won the CIAA Championships in extraordinary fashion.  Below are links to the CIAA Website articles providing more details about the championships.

WSSU Baseball
WSSU Softball
WSSU Women's Tennis

In honor of the great accomplishments of the WSSU Athletic Teams this year, we wanted to show how great a tradition and history sports has at WSSU.  Below is a photo of the Slater Industrial Academy and State Normal School Baseball Team c. 1924.  The image can also be viewed through Digital Forsyth along with other sports photographs.


Slater Industrial Academy and State Normal School Baseball Team c. 1924

Simon G. Atkins Collection

Simon Green Atkins (1863-1934) was the founder and first President of the Slater Industrial Academy (which would become WSSU) in Winston Salem, NC. The collection of records from Simon Atkins' tenure as President of the school is now available at the WSSU Archives. Included in the collection are correspondence, financial records, as well as publications and reports among other various other types of records. The collection was reprocessed and a new finding aid was created. The finding aid for the collection can be found by following the link below, or by visiting the WSSU Archives homepage and browsing through the manuscript collections.

http://ram3.wssu.edu/archives/green.pdf