More than 250 men and women sat down at a banquet at the Yadkin Hotel in Salisbury Friday night. It was the opening for the big drive for $250,000 from Salisbury, Rowan County and adjacent counties for the new Catawba College. The full organization for Salisbury was present, the Executive Committee, the Division captains, the team leaders and workers, more than 100 strong. The crafts of Salisbury and Spencer were well represented with a full workers organization. Almost 100 workers were present, representing every township in Rowan County outside of Salisbury.
H.A. Rouser, chairman of the Executive Committee, presided. The guest speaker was W.E. Sharpe of Burlington. Mr. Sharpe told how Burlington had made a $200,000 offer for a College, and failing to locate the College, later offered $100,000 to Elon college located some six miles out of town. The greatest publicity that Burlington ever had was when they made the largest oversubscription to the Red Cross funds. The eyes of the State are upon Salisbury and Rowan County and you can put it over and put Salisbury on the map. There was determination in the workers, for when these outside of Salisbury were dismissed every workers stayed on the job for one hour or more to get the final instruction and the list for work.
C.P. Barringer, president of the State Federation of labor, told how the crafts were for the college, stating that no member of the crafts who had been approached had given less than $50. Mrs. P.N. Peacock told how that Salisbury had been looking forward to the time when they would have a school, and now they were to realize what they had hoped for. The net assets of the old Catawba College at present are $30,000 in land and buildings in Salisbury and $100,000 in accrued endowments from the old college and the Forward Movement of the Reformed Church.
To date the Reformed Church in North Carolina has $136,000 subscribed toward the endowment of the College in Salisbury with a number of congregations yet to contribute more than the full $150,000. Dr. Elmer R. Hoke, president of the College, and Rev. J.H. Keller have made a partial canvass of the Reformed Church North and have secured a substantial amount towards the $200,000 goal originally asked.
A citizen of Salisbury said after the supper was over: “This is the largest and most enthusiastic gathering of the citizens of Salisbury and Rowan county I have ever seen. We will make good.” That was the impression made Friday night. A large score board in the dining room of the Yadkin Hotel and another next to the Davis and Wiley Bank on the square will tell the results of the canvass from day to day, beginning Monday of next week, and closing the night of the 16th.
Salisbury teams will gather each day at 12:30 to make reports, get new inspiration and make plans for the next day’s work. The township workers will gather with them on Tuesday and Friday, and the industrial committee Tuesday and Friday nights.
H.S. Barrier, G.S. Kluttz, H.E. Foil, Dr. M.A. Foil, Revs. C.W. Warlick and W.C. Lyerly of Cabarrus County were present. Hickory, Lexington and other towns were represented.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Feb. 7, 1925
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