Master Potter Mildred Blue was the first member of the Catawba Nation to graduate from high school, and served as a membership roll coordinator for the Catawba Nation. She was a warm, gracious woman, well loved and respected by those who knew her, and an expert pottery teacher.
Moroni Taylor "Mac" George was a Navy veteran of World War II, and is believed to be the first Catawba to ever serve as a police officer. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he was also a star of the small-town wrestling circuit, where he competed as "Chief Yellowbird." He married his wife, Evelyn McAbbe George, in 1945, while on a 3-day pass from the Navy, and after the war they moved to York, Sc, where Mac worked at cotton mills and service stations, wrestling on the side, until he joined the City of York Police in 1964, where he served for 23 years.