Catawba College - Sayakini / Swastika Yearbook (Salisbury, NC)

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s 9-fa Swast ika. wmii Mmm » EDGAR WHITENER PRESIDENT BOARD TRUSTEES (I SI Page Eighteen $29

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1 m rti i The New Catawba Catawba College, which was formerly situated at Newton, North Carolina, was re- located at Salisbury in September, 1925. The Administrati on building at Catawba, which was originally intended for an industrial institute, was purchased by the Board of Trustees, and with the addition of Zartman Hall, which was immediately erected, the College began its work. Since that time Catawba College has entered upon a period of remarkable growth. The evidence of this change is everywhere visible — in the enrollment, in the addition of new buildings, which made the physical plant more adequate, and in the greatly increased number of faculty members. The high standard ' of the work of the College has become widely accredited. Within a period of only three and a half years, Catawba has risen from a practically unknown institution to a school which is recognized throughout the State as one of the outstarding, if not the outstanding, of the smaller Colleges. When Catawba College was reopened at Salisbury in 1925, the institution began work with only two buildings, the present Administration Building and Zartman Hall, a girls ' dormitory. Since that time, three large buildings have been erected, as well as the president ' s home. A splendid field has been arranged for all athletic contests in the open. An adequate gymnasium with physical education equipment was constructed at the conclusion of the College ' s first year ' s work in its new home. The Home Economics Building and the Faculty Apartments are the other additions. Two other buildings are planned for next year, a Music Building and another Faculty Apartment. The enrollment of the College has grown in remarkable proportions. In its first vear the College contained slightly over a hundred students. The enrollment of the institution at the conclusion of this year ' s work will be approximately eleven hundred, including those attending the Summer session and others connected with the Extension Department. Catawba ' s percentage of increase in enrollment was highest of any college in the State during the past year. The faculty of Catawba College has increased from year to year in order to keep pace with the increased enrollment. Catawba College has received an A grade rating by the College Rating Board of North Carolina. At a meeting at Fort Worth, Texas, in December of last year, the Southern Association of Colleges admitted Catawba to membership in the Association, thus placing the College on a par with any institution in the United States. This achievement stands as the highest in the history of Catawba and is the product of the exceptional period of growth which the institution is now undergoing. , I 111 SI Page Seventeen ' 29 ft!

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ft fti THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Edgar Whitener, President ----------- High Point, N. C. H. E. Rote, M. D. ----- - - - - - - - - Newton, N. C. Rev, John H. Keller ----- China Grove, N. C. M. A. Foil, M. D. ----------- Mt. Pleasant, N. C. J. T. Hedrick ------------- Lexington, N. C. Rev. G. A. Longaker, D, D., Secretary -------- Hickory, N. C. Ross M. Sigmon --------- Salisbury, N. C. Stahle Linn Salisbury, N. C. Rev. J. C. Leonard, D. D. - - - - - - - Lexington, N. C. J. O. Moose --------- Concord, N. C. W. G. Hinkle -------- Thomasville, N. C. J. P. Linn ---- Landis, N. C. Rev. Dr. Chas. E. Wehler ------- Frederick, Md. Rev. Felix B. Peck ' ' .. Westminister, Md. H. A. Rouzer -..- Salisbury, N. C. George Seal - - Harrisburg, Pa. John W. Peeler, Vice-President ------ Rockwell, N. C. G. A. Fisher, Treasurer ------- Salisbury, N. C. L. A. Corriher --------- Landis, N. C. Harry Foil --------- Mt. Pleasant, N. C. Sam Carter --------- Salisbury, N. C. P.S.Carlton - - - - -■- - - - - Salisbury, N. C L. R. Abernethy --------- Hickory, N. C. M. C. Jones ---------- Gettysburg, Pa. HI iW Page Nineteen s