Off to college? Want to meet new lifetime friends? Look for Catholic Campus Ministry on your campus. They may have tables outside church and at campus club/organization fairs.
Or they may be helping first-year students settle in their rooms or participating in the Week of Welcome (WOW) on your campus.
Wherever they are and whatever year you are, you are welcome to join them. Go to www.catholiconcampus.com and click on “Directory” to find and contact the Campus Minister at your college or university.
Campus Ministry in the Diocese of Charlotte serves college students throughout western North Carolina, enabling them to continue their faith journey as young adults.
Campus Ministry encourages young adult Catholics to develop a closer relationship with God, continue forming their conscience within the teachings of our faith, build faith communities on campus, develop as future leaders and stewards of the Catholic community, and engage in social justice-oriented learning and activities.
All Catholic students attending university or college in the diocese are welcome in the Catholic Campus Ministry community at:
- Appalachian State University (with outreach to Lenoir-Rhyne University)
- Bennett College and North Carolina A&T (Thea House)
- Davidson College
- High Point University
- UNC-Asheville (with outreach to Warren Wilson College, AB Tech Community College and Mars Hill University)
- UNC-Charlotte (with outreach to Queens University, Johnson C. Smith University, Wingate University, Central Piedmont Community College and Johnson & Wales University-Charlotte)
- UNC-Greensboro (with outreach to Greensboro College and Guilford College)
- Wake Forest University (with outreach to Salem College and North Carolina School of the Arts)
- Western Carolina University
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At www.catholiconcampus.com: Get more information about Catholic Campus Ministry in the Diocese of Charlotte
CHARLOTTE — Eighteen college students who are Catholic parishioners in North Carolina have each been awarded a $1,000 to $1,500 scholarship from the George Warren Pitman Endowment Fund.
The endowment was established by the late George Warren Pitman, a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist who once lived in Charlotte. He made the scholarships available to applicants who reside in either Mecklenburg County or the town of Dunn, N.C.
Pitman, a renowned designer, built a successful business in the Carolinas and Virginia before passing away in 2007 at the age of 79. For more than 30 years, he ran his design firm, George Pitman Inc., from his beautiful home in Charlotte’s Myers Park neighborhood. He was a graduate of Mount St.
Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Md., and Bright’s School of Design in Chicago, and he bequeathed $1.2 million of his fortune to establish an endowment that funds need-based scholarships to Catholic students who also wish to earn an undergraduate degree.
Through the George Warren Pitman Scholarship Fund, college-bound Catholics can apply for renewable awards of up to $1,000, depending on the type of college (two-year, four-year or vocational) they plan to attend.
A total of five freshmen, four sophomores, four juniors and five seniors are receiving scholarships this year. They will attend universities including: Appalachian State University, Belmont Abbey College, Catholic University of America, High Point University, Lenoir-Rhyne University, N.C. State University, Purdue University, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Charlotte, UNC-Wilmington, University of Dayton, University of Georgia, University of Texas at Austin, VPI State University and Washington & Lee University.
The application period for the George Pitman Scholarship runs from Dec. 3 to March 1. (For more information, contact Jim Kelley, development director for the Diocese of Charlotte, at 704-608-0359 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..)
“Mr. Pitman’s transformative gift continues to benefit Catholic students to attend a college or university of their choice,” Kelley said.
He added, “More and more people across the diocese are remembering the Church in their estate plans – gifts from thousands of dollars to millions – and we are thankful for their generosity.”
Those like Pitman who make a planned gift that benefits the diocese or any of its parishes, schools, ministries or agencies become members of the Catholic Heritage Society. The Catholic Heritage Society is comprised of more than 1,300 people in the diocese, many of whom are leaving gifts to the diocesan foundation in their wills.
Since 1994, the foundation has distributed $11.5 million to the diocese and its parishes, schools and ministries.
— SueAnn Howell, Senior reporter