Qualla: Catawba College https://qualla.com/catawba-college en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/g/catawba-college-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Catawba College https://qualla.com/catawba-college Catawba College: Introduction https://qualla.com/catawba-college/ Photo credit Kharris0317, CC BY-SA 4.0. Catawba College ran out of money during the Civil War and turned itself into a high school just to survive. For twenty years, from 1865 to 1885, the institution founded in 1851 by the North Carolina Classis of the Reformed Church operated as Catawba High School - not what its founders intended, but the only way to keep the doors open. It eventually resumed college operations, went coeducational in 1890, and in 1925 picked up and moved from its namesake Catawba County to Salisbury, where a partially built dormitory and several acres of land were waiting. A century after that move, the same college that had once been so broke it became a high school holds an endowment of more than $580 million and has hit full carbon neutrality seven years ahead of its own deadline.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/g/catawba-college-wp/dnqg-catawba-college-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Catawba College: Founded by a Reformed Church Classis https://qualla.com/catawba-college/ Photo credit Kharris0317, CC BY-SA 4.0. The word classis comes from the Reformed church tradition - it means a regional governing body of ministers and elders. The North Carolina Classis of the Reformed Church in the United States founded Catawba in 1851 in the town of Newton, then watched the institution buckle under ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/g/catawba-college-wp/dnqg-catawba-college-founded-by-a-reformed-church-classis.mp3 0:06 2 full Catawba College: Two Tangerine Bowls, Held to Six Points https://qualla.com/catawba-college/ Photo credit Kharris0317, CC BY-SA 4.0. On January 1, 1947, Catawba College won the very first Tangerine Bowl, beating Maryville College 31 to 6. One year later, on January 1, 1948, they won the second Tangerine Bowl, beating Marshall University 7 to 0. The bowl game eventually became the Citrus Bowl, one of the major ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/g/catawba-college-wp/dnqg-catawba-college-two-tangerine-bowls-held-to-six-points.mp3 0:06 3 full Catawba College: Carbon Neutral, Seven Years Early https://qualla.com/catawba-college/ Photo credit Kharris0317, CC BY-SA 4.0. Catawba's Center for the Environment opened in 1996 with the brief of teaching environmental stewardship to students and the surrounding community. The building that houses it opened in 2001 and was hailed by North Carolina's top environmental official as the wave of the future i...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/g/catawba-college-wp/dnqg-catawba-college-carbon-neutral-seven-years-early.mp3 0:06 4 full Catawba College: The Ketner School and a Grocery Empire https://qualla.com/catawba-college/ Photo credit Kharris0317, CC BY-SA 4.0. Ralph Ketner co-founded Food Lion, the regional grocery chain headquartered in Salisbury, and when he gave back to his community he gave to Catawba. The Ketner School of Business carries his name. It teaches accounting, economics, marketing, entrepreneurship, and the more recent ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/g/catawba-college-wp/dnqg-catawba-college-the-ketner-school-and-a-grocery-empire.mp3 0:06 5 full Catawba College: The Endowment and the Future https://qualla.com/catawba-college/ Photo credit Kharris0317, CC BY-SA 4.0. Catawba received a $200 million gift in 2024 - its second nine-figure donation in three years. The endowment passed $580 million, an astonishing figure for a college of Catawba's size. The institution that had to become a high school to survive the 1860s now sits on financial res...

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