Salisbury Getting Catawba College, June 6, 1923

Salisbury Gets Catawba College. . . School of the Reformed Church to be Moved from Newton Soon. . . Rowan to give $50,000. . . School to Raise Endowment of $440,000

Salisbury, June 6—The trustees of Catawba College, the Reformed Church school at Newton, met here this afternoon and took action that will mean the removal of the institution from Newton to Salisbury and the raising of the school from a junior college to an A1 grade institution that will rank with any of the colleges of the state. The trustees accepted the offer of the trustees of the Salisbury Normal and Industrial Institute to turn over to them their fine college property in the north ward of the city of Salisbury, consisting of an unfinished building and 40 acres of land, provided they would assume the mortgage on the property, which amounts to something like $50,000.

This proposition was accepted on condition that Salisbury and vicinity raise $50,000 towards the $400,000 endowment fund that is in prospect for Catawba. The next session of the college is to be held at Newton in order to allow the completion of the Salisbury property, the installation of modern conveniences and furnishings before the school opens here.

From the front page of the Winston-Salem Journal, Wednesday, June 6, 1923