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

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J cA ' .onS @ 1943 g05 TW C. cane(J e-dIrector, For a review of ' Gardner-Wlbb ' 54 ' . early as iQ W e idea of establishing a school of high school grade, cre the young . . . could have the best possible;Q; ation!Jtf n- Jge? under the distinctive Christian influence, ' .Was Jurmy fiijaM pe inds of the people of the Kings Mountain Assocrawn.- By 19TO Boil- ' ine Sjprings was selected as the location of such a schrolj ahd the school is chartered as The Boiling Springs High School, Incorporated. In instruction work on the main building (Huggins-Curtis Hail v ) waf tS ed, and tjiu corns stones %ere laid in June. l ' 1928 the school was opened as a jjyiior college with J- Blaine Davis ' in the plant until 1939 reirovated and beauti- S 150,000.00 o thirty-fivt ged k iWne dff the in- ior College in honor of two prominent ied. In 1942 the people were led «i«an as Its first president. Very little chani|»as amdt when the buildings a d ouffflTs were partially pie were led «i«ang|tfort to raise ; tsiSof the can Bs froi tivKc ir ffle tru t¥!ss c Riged re ifflni )r College in honor of t ' it Hi 3 t € Baptist tRB9 ' which resulted in the|e kcres, and in that sanje stitution to Gardner-Webi North Carolina families In 1946, the college was HMRId to ' t € Baptist IBlBiy of colleges of North Carolina on the condition that by November, 1948 the friends of the institution in addition to $75,000.00 for a plant, raise $250,000.00 for endowment. These conditions were satisfactorily and completely met. Also, in this year the college achieved the goal of attaining the highest accreditation within its reach — full and unqualified membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Behind the curtain ' s mystic fold, the growing future lies unrolled. . » 1 I w I iVft ' TiiiliOi V.