Twenty-eight Catawba College students, all recipients of Tom Smith Scholarships at the institution, were honored at a March 2 luncheon held in the Hurley Room of the Cannon Student Center.
Nicki Vaughn, a senior from Graham, spoke for all of the scholars gathered, expressing collective appreciation to donors Tom and Martha Smith. In addition to Vaughn, other Tom Smith scholarship recipients include sophomore Alan Autry of Fayetteville; senior Joseph D. Brooks of Salisbury; junior Christopher T. Brown of Burlington; senior Nathanial T. Brown of Cornelius; sophomore Garrett R. Carter of Oak Ridge; junior Ryan G. Dayvault of Kannapolis; junior Whitney Demarest of Bear, Del.; freshman Kathryn DeRhodes of Waxhaw; sophomore Elizabeth Fields of Thomasville; sophomore Kevin Hamaker of Beaufort, S.C.; freshman Tyler Held of Virginia Beach, Va.; senior Christina W. Jarrell of China Grove; senior Kellie M. Kaiser of Concord; sophomore Nick Kalogeromitros of Rockwell; senior Jacob P. Krickhan of Hendersonville; sophomore Cassandra Markham of New Port Richey, Fla.; junior Casey D. Morris of Granite Falls; junior Taylor L. Osborne of Salisbury; sophomore Bradford Paschal of Summerfield; senior Matthew Pressley of Salisbury; junior Leslie H. Robertson of Salisbury; junior Ross M. Scallan of Greensboro; senior Gerard A. Smith of Granite Quarry; sophomore Ryan Taccarino of Marmora, N.J.; junior Jared R. Temple of Durham; junior Jacqueline R. White of Mt. Ulla; and junior Carrie L. Wollaston of Landenberg, Pa.