Catawba College begins a new series of Tuesday Music 515 performances beginning at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, September 14, in the Omwake-Dearborn Chapel on campus. This year’s Tuesday Music 515 Series will open with a duo recital by Ralph Hair, playing baritone horn, and Robert Durocher, organ. They will play a program including music by Albinoni, Pachelbel, Handel, and Mozart.

The new baseball field wall at Catawba College’s Newman Park was dedicated Saturday in a ceremony held before the college’s opening game of the football season. A crowd of around one hundred gathered to show their appreciation to Cecil and Nan Whitley of Salisbury who once again spearheaded a major sports improvement project at the college.

Dr. Sanford Silverburg, professor and chair of the political science department at Catawba College, will offer several lectures at Chautauqua’s Andrews Valley Experience in October in Andrews, N.C. He will lecture on “Threats to American Security – Domestic and Foreign,” at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 11; “American Media – Fair and Balanced?” at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12; and “Trouble in the World and U.S. Policy” at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12.

Dr. Sharon Sullivan, assistant professor of mathematics at Catawba, has been selected, for the second consecutive year, to appear in the 2005 edition of “Who’s Who in America.”

In 1964, the grand opening of the Robertson College-Community Center at Catawba College provided both the College and the Salisbury-Rowan Community with performance venues for various theatrical and musical events. Now 40 years after its opening, the facility will continue to provide those same venues thanks to some much- needed system upgrades now underway.

Despite clouds, rainfall, isolated flooding and the threat of tornadoes caused by Hurricane Charley’s passage through the Carolinas, approximately 250 members of the Class of 2008 moved into their residence halls at Catawba College Saturday. Students and their parents, concerned about how the adverse weather would affect their move, began calling campus on Thursday, August 12, prompting college officials to provide weather-related messages on the main page of the institutional website and in

If a strong theatre arts program is what you’re after, Catawba College’s Theatre Arts Department ranks number two in the nation. That is according to the 2005 edition of The Princeton Review’s “The Best 357 Colleges” guide which hit bookstands Tuesday, August 17. In the 2004 edition of “The Best 351 Colleges” Guide, Catawba’s Theatre Arts program was ranked 11th in the country. Climbing nine rankings ahead in the new edition, Catawba’s program trails only Wagner College (located in Staten Isl

As part of a strategic planning process underway at Catawba College, officials have initiated an overall review and evaluation of the college’s athletic programs.

The Catawba Chiefs Club recently announced its leadership team for the 2004-2005 year and shared the news that there is potential for record memberships this year in the organization.

Gordon A. Kirkland has been named associate dean of admissions at Catawba College. The promotion was announced recently by Dr. Russell Watjen, Catawba’s vice president and dean of admissions.

The Catawba College Community Music Program is pleased to announce the addition of Daniel Skidmore to its faculty.