Listed below are recipients from 1930 to 1939.
1939
Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, Doctor of Laws
Chancellor, Vanderbilt University
Charles Lee Raper, Doctor of Laws
Professor of Economics, Dean of College of Business Administration, Syracuse University
William Henry Glasson, Doctor of Laws
Professor of Economics, Chairman of Department and Dean of Graduate School, Duke University
1938
James Braxton Craven, Doctor of Divinity
Methodist Minister, Educational Administrator
Norman Vincent Peale, Doctor of Divinity
Pastor, Marble Collegiate Reformed Church, New York City
Ellen Glasgow, Doctor of Laws
Writer
Ray Stannard Baker, Doctor of Literature
Editor of Public Papers, author and agent of State Department
Lewis Hill Weed, Doctor of Science
Director, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Professor of Anatomy
Charles Holmes Herty, Doctor of Science
Chemist, teacher and organizer of chemical research
Clyde R. Hoey, Doctor of Laws
Governor of North Carolina
1937
Marion T. Plyler and Alva W. Plyler, Doctor of Divinity
Ministers and editors of North Carolina Christian Advocate
Charles Cassedy Bass, Doctor of Laws
Dean of School of Medicine, Tulane University
Robert W. Winston, Doctor of Laws
Lawyer and "man of letters"
1936
Edwin NcNeill Poteat, Jr., Doctor of Divinity
Baptist minister; writer
Charles C. Weaver, Doctor of Divinity
Methodist preacher and educational administrator
Robert E. Blackwell, Doctor of Laws
President, Randolph Macon College
Henry Nelson Snyder, Doctor of Laws
President, Wofford College
Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Doctor of Laws
Chinese Ambassador to the United States
Hardin F. Taylor, Doctor of Science
Scientist and inventor
Jesse Lee Cuninggim, Doctor of Divinity
Organizer and builder of Scarritt College
1935
Thomas Campbell Darst, Doctor of Divinity
Bishop, Eastern North Carolina, Protestant Episcopal Church
Gerald Ray Jordan, Doctor of Divinity
Pastor, Centenary Methodist Church, Winston-Salem, NC
Robert D.W. Connor, Doctor of Laws
Former Secretary, North Carolina Historical Commission; Kenan Professor of History, University of North Carolina
Martha M. Berry, Doctor of Laws
Founder, Berry School, Mount Berry, GA
John Lloyd Newcomb, Doctor of Laws
President, University of Virginia
1934
Howard Bement, Doctor of Laws
Headmaster, Asheville School
Benjamin R. Lacy, Jr., Doctor of Divinity
President, Union Theological Seminary
Paul B. Kern, Doctor of Divinity
Methodist Bishop
1933
Homer L. Ferguson, Doctor of Science
Distinguished Naval architect and ship builder
Ivan Lee Holt, Doctor of Divinity
Member, General Conference and General Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church
John P. Munroe, Doctor of Science
One of founders of medical profession in North Carolina
William Louis Poteat, Doctor of Laws
President Emeritus, Wake Forest College
Sir Josiah Stamp, Doctor of Laws
Chairman, London Midland and Scottish Railway; British representative on reparations commission's committee on German currency and finance
1932
Frank P. Graham, Doctor of Laws
President, University of North Carolina
Thurman D. Kitchin, Doctor of Laws
President, Wake Forest College
1930
Edwin D. Mouzon, Doctor of Laws
Bishop of The Methodist Church
Ray L. Wilbur, Doctor of Laws
United States Secretary of the Interior
Walter L. Lingle, Doctor of Laws
President, Davidson College
David R. Coker, Doctor of Science
South Carolina industrialist