SPRING/SUMMER 2011 Volume 32, Number 2 Congratulations Class of 2011 Graduation Spotlights 1-3 Spotlights 4 ..........Banner System Goes Live 32 ..........GREEN PIG: GREEN WAYS 4 ..........Catawba Tuition, No Increase 32......Awards Convocation 5 ..........Adrian L. Shuford, Jr. Awards 33......EDF Fellow to work on Energy Efficiency Plan 6 ..........Ben Smith, Dean of Students 33......Dave Foreman Wilderness Conservationist 6 ..........“Zeitoun” - 2011 Common Reading 33......Champions for Clean Air Awards 7 ..........The Writing Center Tutoring Program 33......Two Join Center for the Environment Tonia Black-Gold 8 ..........Kenerly Smith Family Scholarship 42 ..........Gary Hauze ’70, Professor Schiemann Editor & Chief Communications Officer 8 ..........Pat McCrory ’78 Visits Campus 42 ..........Professor Pam Thompson’s PROM!SE Tracy MacKay-Ratliff 8 ..........“The Journal of Economic Issues” 44 ..........Catawba Singers’ European Tour Director of Graphic Design Services 9 ..........CEO Lecture Series Speaker, Bryan Jordan ’84 & Photographer 44 ..........Students, Acken and Hendrick Thrive and Grow 10 ..........2010-2011 NC Teacher of the Year, Facciolini Nancy Mott 45 ..........Catawba’s TV Spots Air Staff Coordinator 10 ..........Alumni Abound at Josten’s 10 ..........Catawba’s Master of Education Degree Maegen G. Worley 23-28 Web Designer & Developer 12 ..........Dr. George Drum ’62 Retires Departments James D. Lewis ’89 12 ..........Dr. Sanford R. Silverburg Retires Sports Information Director 14 ..........Dr. Bethany Sinnott Retires Contact us at 16 ..........Carly Sabat, Lip Balm Analysis Newsletter & Athletics 1-800-CATAWBA 17 ..........J Term is a Success 1-704-637-4393 18 ..........Lilly Colloquium Speaker Ruth Anderson 34 URL 19 ..........Church/College Award & Paul Fisher Service Awards www.catawba.edu CLASSNotes 20 ..........Sports Hall of Fame Alumni updates & Close-ups [email protected] 21 ..........Eric P. Slipp Endowed Scholarship 22 ..........New Sport Women’s Lacrosse 40 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 22 ..........Four Catawba Basketball Players. Where are they now? In Memoriam Campus Magazine, CATAWBA COLLEGE 2300 W. Innes St., 29 ..........Dr. Oxendine ’52 Comes Home to Catawba Salisbury, NC 28144-2488 32 ..........Dr. Turner Leaves Catawba CAMPUS Magazine (USPS 087-560) is published biannually by Catawba College Public Relations. With each printing approximately 17,000 copies are mailed to keep alumni, families of currently enrolled students, and friends informed about and connected to Catawba College. For more images of Catawba’s Graduation Exercises visit www.catawba.edu/gallery/2011/grad 1 Baccalaureate Homily Encourages Graduates to Look for Rainbows Kristopher Watson of Voorhees, N.J., a 2011 Catawba 293 Receive Degrees College graduate and tenor, wowed those gathered for the Baccalaureate Service on campus Friday, May 13, with a solo during Catawba’s performance of “Over the Rainbow.” The song’s inclusion in the service was at the request of outgoing Catawba College Commencement Exercises President Dr. W. Craig Turner. Turner, who le Catawba this month aer serving three hose earning baccalaureate degrees in the college’s traditional day program partic- years as its 21st president, ed his baccalaureate homily to ipated in a 10 a.m. ceremony, while those earning master of education degrees and that song. He encouraged those graduates in the Class of baccalaureate degrees in the School of Evening and Graduate Studies (SEGS) par- 2011 to see the rainbow as “a sign of hope – of the future that Tticipated in a 2 p.m. ceremony. In both exercises, Catawba College President Dr. belongs to us as loving and faithful persons with dreams and Joseph B. Oxendine, a 1952 alumnus of the institution, delivered a charge to the graduates and goals.” N.C. public servant, television show host, and newspaper columnist, D.G. Martin, delivered a Turner reminded graduates of the biblical story of Noah. commencement address. Aer rains had destroyed most of life on earth, he said, God presented Noah with a rainbow as a symbol of “the covenant Oxendine’s Charge to Graduates between me and the earth.” In his first commencements as Catawba’s president, Oxendine told the graduates, “You “I hope and pray tonight that you will always look for the have completed your examinations and received your diplomas. Perhaps you thought that no rainbows that follow the storms; that you always remember more tests were to be taken. I must inform you, however, that now the real testing starts. The St. Paul’s admonion: be persons of faith, hope, and love; and most important testing is yet to come. From now until you retire from your life’s work, and that you heed [English Poet Robert] Browning’s advice: “Look thereafter, you are going to be tested on how effectively you put into practice those lessons up, advance! All now is possible,” Turner said, as he concluded that you have learned in your academic studies and about which you have heard today.” his remarks. He shared his hope with the graduates that they would “measure up” as effectively as Members of the Class of 2011 played key roles in the they had done on the tests they had taken as students at Catawba. “We are all proud of you baccalaureate service, including Susan Fisher of Litz, Pa., today,” he said, adding that he hoped that 10 years from now, and 50 years from now, people who introduced Turner; Cody Ashby of Lexington, acolyte; acquainted with the graduates will say, “Now there is an individual who is really making a Erica Mickey of Thomasville, crucifer; and Shaun Bridgewater difference in this community.” of Simsbury, Conn., and Molly Williams of Galax, Va., both of Oxendine noted the distinctiveness of each group of graduates participating in the two whom served as lectors. The Rev. Harvey Joyner, Jr., a United different ceremonies. In the 10 a.m. ceremony, the 190 traditional day graduates were 48 Church of Christ pastor and father of 2011 graduate Kendra Joyner percent women and 52 percent men, hailing from 20 states and five countries with a median of Petersburg, Va., also parcipated in the service as a lector. age of 23. In the 2 p.m. ceremony, the 103 SEGS graduates were 71 percent women and 29 Other members of the Class of 2011 provided music in a percent men, hailing only from North Carolina, with a median age of 38. pre-service recital. Stephen Stringer of Philadelphia, Pa., a college keyboard scholar, played a Bach selecon. Mary Alice D.G. Martin’s Remarks Nichols, a soprano from Conyers, Ga., and Chad Michael Innis, Martin shared two pieces of advice with the graduates, one involving the college and a tenor from Mint Hill, sang solos, while Jaclyn Chapman, a so- one involving their families. He encouraged them to spend time with both. prano from Leonardtown, Md., and Jennifer Drake, a mezzo- Regarding the college, he said, “Your relationship with Catawba changes today, but it soprano from Salisbury, sang a duet. doesn’t end. This place will always be where you went to college. Here is what I want you to Following the service, faculty lit the candles of the gradu- remember: The better Catawba is and the better it gets in the future, the better it is and will be ates in Catawba’s tradional Marshal’s Walk. As family and for you. The better it is, the better people will think of you as the holder of a Catawba degree. friends lined the sidewalk along Oliver’s Way, graduates pro- So, when you help make Catawba better, it lifts you up, too. ceeded by candlelight to the front of the Robertson College- “Give back, not just with your money, but also be a cheerleader and a volunteer. Spread Community Center where they listened to brief remarks from the word. Recruit good students. And come back, for athletics and other events—and just to walk their outgoing senior class president, Kendrick Mayes of Fayet- the grounds. Years from now, when your family is scattered and the home where you grew up is teville; the incoming senior class president, Yakir Malul of Ris- gone and you live somewhere else, Catawba will still be here for you, like it is today, ready to hon Le-Zion, Israel; the outgoing SGA president, Kendra Joyner help bring back the ‘old times.’ Remember this when you need it. Come back here. Come home. of Petersburg, Va.; and College Marshal, Professor David Pulliam. And help Catawba.” Regarding the families, Martin encouraged the graduates to spend some quality time with their parents or a senior family member before time slips away. “Take your mom or your 2 CAMPUS Magazine SPRING/SUMMER 2011 dad to a quiet place—just the two of you. Take a pen and notebook. Express thanks and then 87-Year-Old Participates in Catawba’s “Receiving a college diploma” was the common theme during the two Commencement Exercise commencement exercises in Catawba College’s Keppel Auditorium It was 87-year-old Martha Rhea on Saturday, May 14. The different exercises were for two distinct Hartley Pla of Salisbury who was the populations of students at the institution. first baccalaureate candidate to walk across the Keppel Auditorium stage dur- ask for a description of life’s lessons learned and for ad- for the Carolina Alliance. He also worked with Special ing Catawba College’s Commencement vice and suggestions that might be helpful to you as you Olympics and served as a Catawba teaching fellow, Exercise on Saturday, May 14. For Pla, begin this new phase of your life. assisting a freshman seminar advisor. it was an opportunity to remedy a regret “Then listen, take notes, don't interrupt, don't argue, Charles Lester Campbell of Concord, who earned a she had had for 52 years. don’t talk at all, except to say ‘What else?’ Just listen, wait, bachelor of business administration degree with a Although she is a 1959 alumna of listen, wait, listen.