The Claude H. and Ruth L. Trexler Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund has been established at Catawba College with a gift from the estates of the late couple. The scholarship will be awarded to needy students who desire to become teachers in Rowan County.

A small group of students and faculty members from Catawba College followed the footsteps of Charles Darwin and Russell Crowe when they traveled in May to the Galapagos, a Ecuadorian national park located 600 miles off the coast of that country.

When Catawba College sought a new director of major gifts and planned giving, administrators knew they wanted a seasoned professional with a strong background in finance. They found those attributes in Salisbury resident Eric Nianouris who began his new position in April.

Two Catawba College professors, Dr. Sanford Silverburg and Michael Bitzer, earlier this month participated in the annual reading and scoring of the College Board’s Advanced Placement Examinations in Fort Collins, Colorado.

The 65th annual session of Tar Heel Boys State is underway now on the campus of Catawba College.

Space is still available in Catawba College’s Community Music Camps, slated for June 28 through July 1 between 9 a.m. and noon in the Williams Music Building on campus.

Kimberly A. Betts has joined the Catawba College Center for the Environment as the executive administrative assistant. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Brandi Bettis Orbin, formerly assistant director of development stewardship at Georgia Institute of Technology, has joined the staff of the Catawba College Center for the Environment. She will serve as coordinator of fund raising and volunteers.

The Catawba College Center for the Environment is ratcheting up its efforts in the community. “We’re taking our mission to the next level,” says Dr. John Wear Jr., center director.

The Catawba Chiefs launched their 2004-2005 membership campaign June 1. The goal for this year is 425 members, according to Bill Pieczynski, Chiefs Club coordinator.

For a portion of May, the Catawba College Guest House was the Salisbury-Rowan Symphony Guild’s Designer House. Thanks to a substantial gift from Catawba Trustee and Alumnus Larry Cloninger ’74 and wife Susan, the guest house will remain elegantly furnished and be renamed the Cloninger Guest House at Catawba.

Dr. Maria Vandergriff-Avery, an assistant professor of sociology at Catawba College, is attending Ferrum College's second National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Teachers June 3-29.

For the fourth consecutive year, Catawba College will host Tar Heel Girls State June 6-12.