Fonds documents Wilks' work as the coordinator and photo page editor of the Mount Royal College History Project. Wilk worked with author Robert MacDonald on the project to research and write an unpublished book as part of Mount Royal's 90th anniversary celebration titled: "An Institution and its Communities: A History of Mount Royal College 1910-2000." Fonds contains one series of audio recordings of interviews with Mount Royal faculty, staff, and students. Fonds also contains correspondence, book drafts, research notes, brochures and promotional material, newspaper articles, photographs, project proposals, timelines, and progress reports.
Item is a taped interview with Lexi and Bob Church regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Bob Church was a former Mount Royal student who went on to become a geneticist and Dean of Medicine at the University of Calgary.
Item is a business card and taped interview with Greg Flanagan regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Flanagan worked as a faculty member in the Economics Department starting in 1972.
Item is a business card and taped interview with Emmett Hogan regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Hogan was a Social Work instructor and Chair of the Criminology Department from the 1970s-1990s.
Item is a taped interview with Gerald Knowlton regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Knowlton was a student from 1949-1950 and President of the Student Council. He also worked as a Field Representative for the Mount Royal from 1951-1955.
Item is a taped interview with Janette Nickles, a former staff member, regarding the history of Mount Royal. Nickles went on to become the Vice-President of SAIT.
Item is a business card and taped interview with Patrick Peacock regarding the history of Mount Royal. Peacock was a member of the Board of Governors for six years.
Item is a business card and taped interview with Don Stauffer regarding the history of Mount Royal. Stauffer worked as the Dean and Assistant Dean of Community Health Studies and the Dean of Physical Education.
Item is the first of two taped interviews with Douglas Turner regarding the history of Mount Royal. Turner was a former student from 1955-1956 and a faculty member for 35 years who taught Biology and Physical Education.
Item is the second of two taped interviews with Jack Wallens regarding the history of Mount Royal. Wallens was a faculty member who taught Religious Studies. Tape also includes part of an interview with Leona Paterson.
File contains correspondence, notes, a list of individuals to interview regarding Mount Royal's history, a program from an employee rewards ceremony, an invitation to the 'Fabulous Fifties' reunion dinner and dance, photocopies of photographs, newspaper articles, and part of a draft resume.
File contains correspondence, a draft table of contents, a draft overview of Mount Royal College history, printed finding aids from the Glenbow archives, and a master list of interviews.
File contains notes, a draft research and interview guide, the consultation model for the Mount Royal history project, a proposed project budget, a list of significant dates in Mount Royal's history, newspaper articles, a list of Student Association revenue streams, a Mount Royal newsletter, a program for Mount Royal's 70th anniversary celebrations, photocopied pages from Mount Royal yearbooks, information on Mount Royal's architectural design, and a photocopy of the Act to Incorporate Mount Royal College.
File contains notes, lists of campus locations names for individuals connected to Mount Royal's history, a list of potential interviewees, and short biographies on former members of the conservatory.
File contains a list of project outcomes and a paper on the value of the history project. File also contains a detailed report summarizing the steps and stages of the history project and contains project correspondence, proposals, mission documents, budget information, credentials for the author and project coordinator, reports, research papers, minutes, and agendas.
Item is a taped interview with Doris Anderson regarding her recollections of her time as a MRC student in 1936-37 and of her friend and former Mount Royal College Librarian and faculty member, John Brown. The tape also includes a brief interview with John Anderson's daughter, Linda Oats.
Item is a taped interview with John Sabastian Bach, a former faculty member and Director of the Conservatory, and his wife who was a cafeteria staff member, regarding the history of Mount Royal College.
Item is a taped interview with Steve Bezpoluk regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Bezpoluk was a violin student in the Conservatory from 1958-1961 under John S. Bach.
Item is a taped interview with Helen Brown regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Brown was a high school student at Mount Royal in the 1960s and went on to become a math teacher.
Item is a taped interview with Marc Chikinda regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Charlton was a Mount Royal student from 1975-1976 and went on to work as a Broadcasting staff member starting in 1981.
Item is a taped interview with Ann DeWitt regarding the history of Mount Royal College. DeWitt attended Grade 12 at Mount Royal and later joined the faculty, eventually becoming Head of the English Department.
Item is a business card and taped interview with John Kadz regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Kadz is a former Conservatory faculty member and Artist in Residence.
Item is a business card and taped interview with Mahfooz Kanwar regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Kanwar was a faculty member in the Behavioral Sciences Department.
Item is a business card and taped interview with Neil Webber, a former faculty member from 1966-1975, regarding the history of Mount Royal. Webber went on to form his own college, The Webber Academy and serve as a provincial MLA for 14 years.
File documents the preparation of Wilk's Mount Royal history book. The file consists of: correspondence, a student paper on the history of Mount Royal, a draft book introduction and photo index, a photograph of Wilk, a quote for a book cover design, a synopsis of the history book, blank consent/release forms, and draft manuscript and design pages relating to locations around Mount Royal named for college pioneers and early childhood, orchestral, and athletics programs.
Item is the first of two cassettes of a taped interview with Donald Baker, college president from 1980-1989, regarding the history of Mount Royal College.
Item is a taped interview with John Balcers regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Balcers was a former Mount Royal faculty member since 1965 in the Centre of Communication Studies and a lecturer in Journalism.
Item is a taped interview with Gary Beagle regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Beagle was a business student in the mid-60s and later taught evening business classes from 1969-1972. Beagle went on to become the treasurer of Canadian Occidental Petroleum.
Item is a taped interview with Jean Bentley regarding the history of Mount Royal College and her father's role on the Board of Directors. Bentley was a student in the Commercial Department in the 1950s.
Item is a taped interview with Jerry Burden regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Burden was the chair of the Board of Governors from 1975-1981.
Item is the second of two cassettes of a taped interview with Donald Baker, Mount Royal College president from 1980-1989, regarding the history of the College.
Item is the second of two taped interviews with Jack Collett regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Collett was a past Mount Royal President and Principal.
Item is a business card and taped interview with Roy V. Deyell regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Deyell was the Chair of the Board of Governors from 1981-1987 and a Court of Queen's Bench judge.
Item is a taped interview with Jane Flemming regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Flemming was a faculty member in the Conservatory Department of Speech Arts and Drama.
Item is a taped interview with Robert Harris regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Harris was a former faculty member from the Forensic Department.
Item is a taped interview with Bruce Horrey regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Horrey was a staff member in the Sciences for over 30 years, starting in the 1960s.
Item is a taped interview with Netta Kelley regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Kelley was the wife of Owen Kelley, a deceased faculty member from the English Department.
Item is a taped interview with Laural Kirnick regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Kirnick was a faculty member in the Business Department and Secretarial School from 1959-1977.
Item is a business card and taped interview with Cameron Loveday regarding the history of Mount Royal College. Loveday was a staff member in Counselling Services for 30 years.
Item is a taped interview with Leona Paterson regarding the history of Mount Royal. Paterson was a faculty member in the Speech Arts program in the Conservatory.
Item is a taped interview with Aileen Sibbald regarding the history of Mount Royal. Sibbald was a former student who attended in 1912 or 1913 and was taught by Mrs. Kirby.
Item is the second of two taped interviews with Douglas Turner regarding the history of Mount Royal. Turner was a former student from 1955-1956 and a faculty member for 35 years who taught Biology and Physical Education.
Item is the first of two taped interviews with Jack Wallens regarding the history of Mount Royal. Wallens was a faculty member who taught Religious Studies.