Advisory Board
John E. Wear, Jr., Ph.D.
Director, Catawba College Center for the Environment, Salisbury, NC
Dr. John E. Wear Jr., the Catawba College Center for the Environment’s founding director, established the Center and launched Catawba’s Environmental Science & Environmental Studies Program in 1993.
Dr. Wear has committed his energies to environmental initiatives at the local, regional and state level. His leadership was instrumental in launching the Clean Air Initiative for Rowan and the Central Piedmont. He was named the 2003 N.C. Conservationist of the Year by the Governor’s Conservation Achievement Awards Program; a 2002 “Guardian of the Earth” by The Charlotte Observer; and the 2001 Recycler of the Year by the Carolina Recycling Association (the nation’s largest recycling organization).