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  1963: First African American Students Admitted to Gardner-Webb Junior College

  Joyce Watkins (Class of 1965) and Hazel Brown are the first African American students admitted to Gardner-Webb Junior College.

  Photo Description: Joyce Diane Watkins, member of the Day Student Association, Secretary-Treasurer of the International Relations Club, a delegate of the Model UN Assembly, and reporter for The Pilot, was selected as one of the six 1965 Outstanding Sophomore's chosen by a faculty-student committee who represent the ideal qualities of a Gardner-Webb student.

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  1967: The Green Scribe Literary Journal is Published

  The Green Scribe is published as the College's first literary publication. Later the publication would change names to One Little Candle (1969), followed by Reflections (1973), and finally the Broad River Review (2002).

  Photo Description: A progression of Gardner-Webb's literary journal from its earliest days as The Green Scribe, One Little Candle, Reflections, to the present Broad River Review. Read through each individual issue in the Literary Societies and Publications Collection.

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  1974: John R. Dover Memorial Library is Built

  The current John R. Dover Memorial Library is built. Students create an assembly line to move books across campus.

  Photo Description: Gardner-Webb students help move the library across campus from Craig Hall to the newly built (1974) Dover Memorial Library.

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  1981: Second Hamrick Hall Fire

  Hamrick Hall catches on fire, again. Hamrick Hall would be restored and accepted into the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

  Photo Description: The front cover of The Foothills View newspaper depicting Hamrick Hall in flames.

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  1992: Gardner-Webb College Receives University Status

  Gardner-Webb College receives accreditation to become Gardner-Webb University. For more information, see the article titled Gardner-Webb University! published in The Pilot student newspaper.

  Photo Description: The Town of Boiling Springs water tower gets an update reflecting Gardner-Webb's change in status from a college to a university.

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  1995: Artis Gilmore Inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame.

  Artis Gilmore, class of 1969, is inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame.

  Photo Description: Artis Gilmore's player profile from the 1968 - 1969 Gardner-Webb College basketball program.

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  1996-97: The Year of the Scholar Program

  The Year of the Scholar program was started by Les and Joyce Compton Brown. The program would later become the annual Life of the Scholar Multidisciplinary Conference supporting undergraduate research and scholarship. The program celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2017.

  Photo Description: The March 5, 1997 issue of the Year of the Scholar newsletter. While the Year of the Scholar program lasted for the 1996-1997 academic year, it lead to the annually held Life of the Scholar Multidisiplinary Conference and the Gardner-Webb Review scholarly journal.

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  2008: Webb Building Tree Campaign

  Students launch a successful campaign to save the trees in front of the Webb Building.