Gardner Webb University - Web / Anchor Yearbook (Boiling Springs, NC)

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In 1907. construction work on the main building (the girls ' dormitory now) started, and the corner stones, one for the Kings Mountain Association and one for the Sandy Run. were laid in June. In May of the same year Mr. J. D. Huggins was elected as the school ' s first principal. In January. 1908. the school moved into the unfinished building. Ifhus the Boiling Springs High School continued under the able lead ership of J. D. Huggins until 1928. In 1928. after the campaign for funds by the Kings Mountain and Sandy Run Associations and the Baptist State Convention had been completed, the school was opened as a junior college with J. Blaine Davis as its first president and J. D. Huggins as the dean. ■Very little change was made in the plant until 19 39 when the buildings and grounds were partially renovated and beautified. The gymnasium was veneered with native stone, and by 1 940, the E. B. Hamrick building, which had been burned, was under reconstruction. This building had been erected after the first World ' War as a memorial to the boys from this section of the state, boys who had given their lives in the cause of freedom. In 1942. Horace Easom and Mai Spangler led the people in an effort to raise $150,000.00, which effort resulted in the extension of the campus from five to thirty-five acres, the rcfinishing and refurnishing of the Memorial build- ing, the erection of the new library building, and the complete renovation and refurnishing of the dormitories. In June. 1942, the trustees changed the name of the institution to Gardner- Webb Junior College in honor of two prominent Carolina families. On October 1. 1943. the trustees launched a campaign to raise a maximum of $500,000.00 as a memorial building fund. J. E. Sirrine and Company, of Greenville. S. C made the survey and drew the plans for thirteen new buildings. Since October 1 . more than $1,300 per day has come into this fund. Building will start as soon as convenient after the close of the war. You will do well to watch the next ten years of Gardner-Webb. Page Five

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mwrn COLLEGE HISTORY Gardner- Webb College has a varied and interesting history. As early as 190 the idea of establishing a school of high grade, where the youth could have the best possible educational advantages under distinctive Christian influences. was firmly fixed in the minds of the people of the Kings Mountain AssociStion. By 1905 Boiling Springs was selected as the location of such a school, and the Sandy Run Association had joined enthusiastically with the Kings Mountain Association in the determination to build it. The school was chartered on December 2. 1905. as The Boiling Springs High School. Incorporated. Page Four

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- 1 . 1 Ya - 1 rn T r f i-joK ' - A TRIBUTE TO THOSE IN SERVICE Our country that loves peace icas again forced to come face to face with the horrors of icar when the enemy struck at Pearl Harbor. American families who were once filled with joy, laughter, love and hope have come to know death, sorrow and frustrations. The first call for men left a vacancy in many homes — homes from the poorest to the wealthiest. Then all America missed the boys from the streets, the churches, the farms, the factories and finally from the class rooms. But ' tis the bravery of these boys under fire which , gives all America the courage to believe in the rights of men and the faith to look ahead with optimism and with confidence in a just and undying cause. Page Six