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Der Deutsche Verein, or The German Club, was a student organization at Wesleyan whose purpose was to promote the learning and application of the German language.

The Phi Rho Literary Society was founded in 1891 as a non-fraternity society with the aim of constituting a brotherhood and cultivating the art of public speaking. In 1903, the group became the Gamma Zeta chapter of the national fraternity of Delta Tau Delta. This fraternity existed until 1989.

On February 24, 1845 a vote was passed by the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, establishing its ninth chapter at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

The Physiological Society of Wesleyan University was established in 1839. It was based on the teachings of Sylvester Graham, who advocated a vegetarian diet and temperate lifestyle. The Society appears to have disbanded in April 1844.

Dana Plante (1937-1960) graduated in 1959 from Wesleyan University.

The Honors College, housed in Russell House, was a program for distinguished students in the Wesleyan community. In addition to informal lectures by young men and women, the Honors College hosted a series of music concerts and poetry readings by distinguished, young American poets. The poetry series at the Honors College also came to include an opportunity for Wesleyan students to share their own work for an audience. The Connecticut Poetry Circuit is a non-profit organization that provides three poetry reading programs for colleges and some preparatory schools. The intention of the circuit was to bring established yet unpublished poets to colleges and universities, as well as a competition among students throughout Connecticut to travel the circuit as student poets. The winners of the competition are chosen by a selection committee to tour the state reading their poetry. The connection between the Connecticut Poetry Circuit and Wesleyan University is that Jean Maynard, the assistant director of the Honors College, was the director of the Connecticut Poetry Circuit.

The Press Archives began at Wesleyan University in 1952, but after three years the project lapsed. It was re-started around 1958 by professor Sigmund Neumann. He intended the Press Archives to be a resource for students and faculty in the then-new Public Affairs Center.

Wesleyan University was founded in 1831 in Middletown, Connecticut.

The Public Relations Office, which was later called Office of Public Information and Publications, was responsible for communicating news and achievements at Wesleyan University to the local, state, and national media. This office was later folded into the University Relations department.

Willis Kimball Stetson, son of Daniel Kimball Stetson and Mary Weeks Sanborn Stetson, born 1858 and died 1942. After graduating from Wesleyan University, Class of 1881, he taught public school in Ansonia, CT then became the Assistant Librarian and Librarian at Wesleyan University from 1882 to 1887. Willis Kimball Stetson married Lillian Minor and had three children: John Minor Stetson (born 1887), George Albert Stetson (born 1889) and Mary Mead Stetson (born 1891). Margaret Buell Allen is the daughter of Frederick G. and Mary Mead Stetson Allen. There is no accompanying biographical information regarding the Minor family photographs or other Stetson family member photographs.