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</description></item><item><dc:creator>Maegen G. Worley</dc:creator><title>English Professor's Swan Song Commemorates Books and Roses</title><link>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2012/04/24/eason_bookday2012.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:52:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2012/04/24/eason_bookday2012.aspx</guid><description>Dr. Laurel Eason scurried to drape a table with books and roses before the 1:30 p.m. start time of her Southern Literature class at Catawba College on April 24th. She knew she was a day late for her celebration, but it did not matter.</description></item><item><dc:creator>Maegen G. Worley</dc:creator><title>Catawba Faculty Help Show Elvis in a Different Light</title><link>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2012/04/12/elvis2012.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:09:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2012/04/12/elvis2012.aspx</guid><description>by Len Clark for SalisburyPost.com - Are You Lonesome Tonight? Well put on your Blue Suede Shoes and Surrender yourself to an evening chronicling the era and honoring the influence of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. If you don't laugh you have a Wooden Heart.</description></item><item><dc:creator>Maegen G. Worley</dc:creator><title>Catawba Students and Faculty Member Attend Alpha Chi Convention </title><link>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2012/04/12/alphachiconv2012.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:09:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2012/04/12/alphachiconv2012.aspx</guid><description>Three Catawba College students and one faculty sponsor represented the North Carolina Omicron chapter at the super-regional convention of Alpha Chi, the national college honor society, March 22-24 in Baltimore, Md.</description></item><item><dc:creator>Maegen G. Worley</dc:creator><title>Catawba College Professors Exhibit Their Work</title><link>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2012/01/17/mylife2012.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:32:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2012/01/17/mylife2012.aspx</guid><description>Catawba College Professors Sean Meyers and Janice Moore Fuller will be on hand for the opening of an exhibit of their photographs and poems on Thursday, January 26, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Delhaize Room. The exhibit entitled "This Has Been My Life All My Life: Portraits of Residents, Lutheran Home-Winston Salem, North Carolina" includes 16 pairings of photographs and poems based on interviews with the residents. </description></item><item><dc:creator>Maegen G. Worley</dc:creator><title>Author Laura van den Berg coming January 18</title><link>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2012/01/11/vandenberg2012.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:15:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2012/01/11/vandenberg2012.aspx</guid><description>By Dr. Forrest Anderson, Assistant Professor of English - Laura van den Berg, author of the prizewinning short story collection "What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us," will read at Catawba College at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, January 18. The event, slated in Tom Smith Auditorium, is free and open to the public.</description></item><item><dc:creator>Maegen G. Worley</dc:creator><title>N.C. Poet Laureate, Cathy Smith Bowers, Speaks on Campus Nov. 21</title><link>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2011/11/14/faitharts2011.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:27:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2011/11/14/faitharts2011.aspx</guid><description>The Center for Faith and the Arts will hold its annual Colloquy on Monday, November 21, at 7:00 p.m. in Tom Smith Auditorium on the Catawba College campus. Co-sponsored by Catawba's English Department, the Colloquy will feature Cathy Smith Bowers, North Carolina's Poet Laureate.</description></item><item><dc:creator>Maegen G. Worley</dc:creator><title>VIDEO: A Catawba Story - 3 Friends, 53 Years</title><link>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2011/10/25/story_3friends.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2011/10/25/story_3friends.aspx</guid><description>by Eleanor Link, Flo Breisch Peck, and Alice Funkhouser Carrick (1962 Alumni) - Three alumnae reflect on their 53-year friendship that began when they were Catawba College freshmen. 

</description></item><item><dc:creator>Maegen G. Worley</dc:creator><title>Community Forum: On Shakespeare and Being Human</title><link>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2011/10/13/beinghuman2011.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:53:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.catawba.edu/news/archive/2011/10/13/beinghuman2011.aspx</guid><description>When Dr. Bethany Sinnott retired from the faculty of Catawba College this past spring, the entire college rose for tribute after tribute to her gentle spirit and unflagging dedication to the college community. Dr. Sinnott left a remarkable legacy: hundreds of former students who, under her tutelage, learned to love English language and literature in general, and the works of William Shakespeare in particular. </description></item></channel></rss>
