Woolfolk Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC 274

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This material was generated in Dr. Woolfolk's research on her book, Pioneers, Patriots & Planters, which was published in 2004. The materials in the three boxes are organized by three brothers Robert, Richard and Joseph Woolfolk, who were living in Virginia by the later half of the 17th century. The file folders containing copies of documents are other data are arranged in chronological order. 1660s (photocopies)-1990s 3 boxes (3 l.f.)

Dates

Creation: Majority of material found within 1660 - 1990

Biographical / Historical

According to the Pearson website, Elizabeth Carrow-Woolfolk, Ph.D., is well known for her work in the area of language disorders. Over the past 40 years, Dr. Woolfolk has been a primary teacher, a teacher of children with reading and learning disabilities, a speech and language pathologist, a university professor, and a university administrator, as well as a researcher, lecturer, author, and test developer. She has received numerous awards for her accomplishments, particularly for excellence in teaching and for community support of agencies specializing in language disorders.

Dr. Woolfolk earned an M.A. in educational psychology from the University of Texas, a Ph.D. in speech pathology from Northwestern University, and did postgraduate work in linguistics at Indiana University. She founded the Harry Jersig Center for Communication Disorders and initiated the master's program in speech and language pathology at Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio. She later served as vice president of that university. She headed the Communication Disorder Program at the University of Texas and the Speech Pathology Program at Baylor College of Medicine's Department of Otolaryngology. For more detailed information on Dr. Woolfolk's academic career, see the Pearson's Assessments website mentioned above.

In addition to her professional writings, Dr. Woolfolk is the author of Pioneers, Patriots & Planters, a historical narrative of the Woolfolk Family, first settlers in Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.