The scholarship fund will provide vital financial support to students who demonstrate financial need and maintain good academic standing. The scholarship will prioritize candidates majoring in education, followed by those majoring in the Ketner School of Business, and then those majoring in psychology.
“We are deeply grateful to Jim for his gift,” said Meg Dees, Catawba’s Vice President of Development. “This scholarship will ensure that Lynn’s legacy of compassion and commitment to education lives on, while also supporting future generations of Catawba students in achieving their academic and professional goals.”
Lynn graduated with a psychology degree and went back to get her education degree in 1975. She obtained her Master of Arts in Education from Wake Forest in 1981. In her 30 years of teaching, Lynn taught almost every grade K-12 in the Davie and Forsyth County school systems and finished as a gifted teacher. She offered courses through the state for teachers wanting Gifted Service Licensure. In 1992, she was named Teacher of the Year at Mocksville Middle School.
Jim came to Catawba from Mount Holly, New Jersey. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in general business and then went to work for Caudell Lumber Company in Mocksville. He helped manage the Independent Builder Supply company for 23 years prior to deciding to get his education degree. He served in the Davie County School system as a High School Business Education teacher. Jim later received a master’s degree in education from East Carolina University in 2005.
Jim and Lynn married the day before graduation so they could stand together in the graduation line. Together they had a daughter, Jennifer.
In 2008, the couple retired to Ocean Isle Beach where Lynn worked for the Brunswick Community College GED program and Jim was a Business Education Computer teacher for five years for South Brunswick High School.
Throughout Jim and Lynn’s service with various community organizations, they developed a life philosophy that “if you live in a community and have benefited from it, you should always be willing to give something back to it.” The creation of this scholarship will continue that legacy.
For more information about this scholarship, to make a contribution, contact the Catawba College Office of Development at development@catawba.edu or 704.637.4394.
