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  1930: Football Team Wins State Championship

  Boiling Springs Junior College are NC State Champions in football.

  Photo Caption: Coach Blainey Rackley's Boiling Springs eleven walked off with the NC junior college football title, failing to loose a game in conference play and being scored upon but once. Pictured by Last Name: Cooley, Harrison, Moore, Faulkenberg, Vaughn, Forney, McCraw, Hendrick, Stroud, Boney, Scarborough, Harris, Hunt, Jolly, Coach Rackley, Waters, Hemny, Mullinax, Wall, Bridges, Lattimore, Bridges, and Falls.

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  1937: Hamrick Hall Fire

  The Memorial Building, later renamed Hamrick Hall, burns in a fire believed to be set by an arsonist. Etta Curtis donates her life savings to the school to aid in the rebuilding efforts.

  Photo caption: Members of the Baptist Student Union pictured standing in front of a burned out Hamrick Hall (formerly the Memorial Building) after the November 12, 1937 fire.

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  1942: The First Issue of the Pilot is Published

  Students publish the first student newspaper, The Pilot.

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  1942: Boiling Springs Junior College Renamed Gardner-Webb Junior College

  Boiling Springs Junior College is renamed Gardner-Webb Junior College in honor of the Gardner and Webb families. Govenor O. Max Gardner gives $10,000 in scholarship funds to the College for local students.

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  1945: Thomas Dixon Collection Donated to the College.

  Photo Description: The cover page of the Men of Mark manuscript application from the Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. collection in University Archives.

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  1952: Football Team Wins the Golden Isle Bowl

  The Gardner-Webb Football team wins the Golden Isle Bowl.

  Photo Description: The 1952 Gardner-Webb Junior College Football Offensive line who helped bring GWJC to victory at the Golden Isle Bowl. Pictured: Junie Tutterow (23), Gene Woodall (44), Earnie Byerly (26), Bunny Price (39), James Garrison, Bobby Bush.

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  1957: Huggins Curtis Building Fire

  Photo Description: The Huggins Curtis building burned on August 23rd. As the remains of the building were demolished, the College opened the building's two cornerstones which contained a copy of the Shelby Aurora, Cleveland Star, the school's original charter, and minutes for the two Baptist Associations.

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  1958: Martha Mason Graduates

  
  Martha Mason of Lattimore, NC graduates. Mason contracted polio as a child and completed her education in an iron lung. She would later go on to write the best selling memoir Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung and appear in the Oscar nominated documentary about polio The Final Inch.

  Photo Description: Martha Mason, a survivor of the 1948 polio epidemic, attended Gardner-Webb College in an iron lung. A prolific writer and subject of the documentary "Martha in Lattimore," she is believed to have lived longer in an iron lung than any other person. (Photograph is dated December 17, 1956)