Catawba College Softball Alumni should save the weekend of April 18th, 2009 for a reunion. If you have recently moved or if you unsure we have your correct mailing address, call Gordon Kirkland at (704) 637-4394 or e-mail him at gakirkla@catawba.edu. Reunion details will be mailed January, 2009.

Catawba College professor of psychology, Dr. Sheila Brownlow, collaborated with two of her students, Stephanie Valentine and Alvin Owusu, to produce a paper which has been published. The paper, "Women Athletes' Mental Rotation Under Stereotypic Threat" has been published by Perceptual and Motor Skills.

Three panelists will provide insights and perspectives on Catawba College's 2008 common reading selection, "We Are All the Same," when they participate in the annual BookRevue on campus Tuesday, August 26th.

Catawba College's fall semester classes in the traditional day program begin Thursday, August 21, and preliminary projections indicate close to 900 students will be enrolled. This figure includes returning students as well as first-time and transfer students. A final enrollment tally will not be available until after the drop/add period concludes August 27.

New faculty and staff members hired by the College since the start of last academic year were introduced at the August 12th Fall Conference held in Hedrick Little Theatre.

When Catawba College faculty and staff gathered for their annual fall conference on August 12th, it was an opportunity for the institution's new president, Dr. W. Craig Turner, to rally the troops before the start of a new academic year.

The Catawba College Ketner School of Business, will sponsor "Prepared Communities Win," at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, presented by the Salisbury - Rowan Economic Development Commission. This free program, to be held in Tom E. Smith Auditorium in Ketner Hall on the Catawba campus, begins with refreshments at 5:30 p.m. and reservations are required.

by Lainey Nichols '09. This morning was fairly uneventful. A group of us, consisting of Big Cat (Catawba alumna Catherine Ballentine) Lays (sophomore, Layla Ghorbani), Becks (Becky Factau), and Paige Harrington (senior forward) walked in the rain to a nearby library like a line of baby ducks. This weather is beyond soupy. I was a drowsy kid today

by Lainey Nichols '09. Bath is incredible. I walked into my first building with a rotunda, oculus, and coffered ceiling today — until this point, I had only learned about them in my Art History books. This building was the reception building for the Roman baths and is all that is classic and beautiful.

by Lainey Nichols '09. I cannot begin to express the excitement — our team has to play today! The morning was left to us, but this evening was to be our first game against a Cambridge club. The pitch was ridiculous. Everything is just so green here. Lys (teammate) and I did cartwheels across the center circle when Coach left us to explore the surface as a team prior to the game.