Catawba College Communication Arts Lecturer Cyndi Allison Wittum was the designated dishwasher when she was growing up because she always burned the food. "I put Pop Tarts in the toaster," said Wittum. "I ducked around the corner to watch cartoons. The corner of one of the breakfast pastries caught in the edge of the toaster, and my Pop Tarts were scorched black."

Members of the Salisbury-Rowan community are invited to join faculty, staff and students at Catawba College for a free showing of "An Inconvenient Truth, a Global Warning" at 7 p.m. Friday, February 2. The film will be shown in Tom Smith Auditorium of the Ralph W. Ketner Building on campus.

In Catawba College's Theatre Arts Department, they're billing it as "the Shakespeare Project," but elsewhere on campus and in the community, Shakespeare fans are referring to it as a special chance to see two very different plays by the Bard of Avon in the same week.

A scholarship was recently established in memory of Simone Grant Timoney, a 1983 graduate of Catawba College. Simone's aunt, Sylvia Wiseman of Salisbury, gave the initial gift to establish the Simone Grant Timoney Endowed Scholarship. Simone received a Bachelor of Arts degree, majored in theatre arts and speech, and frequently appeared on Hedrick Little Theatre stage.

Catawba College’s English Department is sponsoring a reading by fiction writer Luke Whisnant on Tuesday, February 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Tom Smith Auditorium, Ketner Hall. Whisnant is the author of Watching TV with the Red Chinese, a novel; Street, a chapbook of poems; and Down in the Flood, a collection of stories.

Catawba College Athletic Director, Dennis Davidson today announced the football schedule for the 2007 Catawba Indians. "We have a challenging, attractive schedule for next fall including six at home, with the first four under the lights at Shuford Stadium" Davidson said in announcing the schedule.

Catawba College's information technology department has been permanently relocated to refurbished space on the lower level of Hoke Hall, and the staff and resources of the Corriher-Linn-Black Library have made a temporary year-long move from the library proper to the main floor of Hoke Hall. Meanwhile, across the campus from Hoke Hall, the most visible of the on-campus capital improvement projects, the construction of five new residence halls, proceeds at a steady pace.

A total of 236 students have been named to the Dean's List for the fall semester at Catawba College, according to Dr. Barbara Hetrick, vice president and dean of the college. Students named to the Dean's List have achieved a 3.5 grade point average in 15 or more semester hours. Students on the Dean's List include:

The Catawba College Music Department extends an invitation to the public for a guest faculty piano recital, "Three Centuries in Two Countries," performed by Dr. Robert Hallquist on Saturday, January 20 at 7:00 pm in the Omwake Dearborn Chapel. Those attending the free concert are invited to meet the artist and enjoy light refreshments at a reception following the concert in the Lilly Center, located in the basement of the chapel.

Dr. Sharon Sullivan, assistant professor of mathematics at Catawba College, recently presented a paper at the national Joint Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society meeting in New Orleans. She presented her paper entitled, Counting Isomorphic (16,6,2) Configurations to a particular (16,6,2) Design, which deals with her research in algebraic combinatorics.

Preeminent American church historian and the author of more than 50 books on religion, faith and culture today, Dr. Martin Marty, will speak at Catawba College's 2007 Lilly Center Colloquium Tuesday, February 27. He will speak two different times during his visit to campus — at 11 a.m. in Omwake-Dearborn Chapel and at 7:30 p.m. in Hedrick Little Theatre and both sessions are free and open to both the public and the college community.

Forty Catawba College students spent their Martin Luther King Holiday doing volunteer work at six local non-profit agencies. Their participation in the so-called MLK Challenge was sponsored by Volunteer Catawba and the Student Government Association.

The Catawba Community Music Program is now accepting enrollments for spring semester classes and lessons. An outreach program of the Catawba College Music Department since 1984, Community Music continues to provide quality music instruction for aspiring music students of all ages and abilities through the following new spring classes and ensembles:

Our 3rd annual Ladies Night will be Friday night, March 30, 2007 in Hayes Field House. There will be wine and cheese for all with "social time" beginning at 7pm. Chef Don Nilson of Chartwells will once again share recipes and ideas with much "hands on" cooking that was so much fun for everyone last year. After Don's time, Coach Chip Hester, his staff and some players will talk about the upcoming 2007 season and answer your questions.

A new academic scholarship has been established at Catawba College by a Greensboro couple who are graduates of the institution. The Kelly-Cline Family Endowed Scholarship was funded with a gift from Ned and Linda Kelly Cline of Greensboro, members of the Class of 1964. Preference for the scholarship will be given to North Carolina students majoring in the humanities, with additional preference given to political science, English and history majors who demonstrate financial need.

Salisbury Mayor Susan Kluttz was recently recognized through a new scholarship established in her honor at Catawba College. Mayor Kluttz, now serving her fifth term, is the longest serving mayor in the history of the city. The Susan W. Kluttz Endowed Scholarship will assist able and deserving students, with a preference given to those majoring in environmental science.

School teacher Peter Stewart Ney was so beloved by his former students that several gathered around his sick bed in a western Rowan County home in November 1846. For years, people had believed the teacher was Michel Ney, a marshal in Napoleon's Army who fled to America after a faked execution by firing squad. As he was breathing his last, someone asked Ney to reveal his true identity.

Today the world faces a crisis never before seen on this scale in human history. All over the globe, human beings of all faiths and of none are wrestling with the question: what exactly is the proper role of religion in the public life of nations? Proposed answers differ radically, even within individual nations. In the United States alone, some would welcome a system where religion dominates all phases of life, both public and private, while others argue with equal fervor that religion has no

Globalism and localism will be the combined focus of Catawba College's recently merged Department of History & Politics. Much of the strength of this new department is reflected in its current faculty, most notably through the 40 years of experience of Dr. Bruce Griffith, the William R. Weaver Professor of History, who has encouraged his students to reflect on both the local and global aspects of history.

Catawba College Alumnus Thomas J. Shone of Mocksville '81 will be the first one to tell you just how influential his father was in shaping his life and career. "He was a loving, supportive and understanding father who offered me a great balance of expectation and demand."

A new scholarship has been established at Catawba College in honor of Dr. Michael Baranski and in recognition of his many contributions to the institution. Baranski, a professor of biology, joined the Catawba faculty in 1974 and has spent his career promoting environmental preservation and awareness among his students and the public at large. The Michael J. Baranski Endowed Scholarship will be awarded to a student majoring in environmental science until that student graduates.