Andrew Calvit Rotary Scholarship established

The annual Andrew Calvit Rotary Scholarship was recently created with the Copiah-Lincoln Community College Foundation by the Rotary Club of Natchez in honor of Andrew Calvit. This scholarship was established to benefit a student from Adams County who plans to attend any Co-Lin campus.

Calvit has been a long-time member of both the Rotary Club of Natchez and the CoLin Foundation board. He was surprised by the honor during their November meeting.

“I’m very honored for this scholarship to be given in my name to a student attending Co-Lin,” he said. “I serve because I love people, and I like to make a difference.”

He grew up in the Cranfield community and started his first job working on a farm for a modest $3 per hour. He later served in the U.S. Army.

The Andrew Calvit Rotary Scholarship was recently established by the Rotary Club of Natchez in honor of Andrew Calvit. Calvit has been a member of Rotary since 2005, and he served on the Co-Lin Foundation board for 18 years. On hand for the presentation were from left, Rotary President Lauren Middleton, Dr. Sandra Barnes, vice president of the Natchez campus, Melton King, chairman of the Co-Lin Board of Trustees, Calvit, Foundation Director Angela Furr, club member Nancy Hungerford and Dr. Dewayne Middleton, Co-Lin executive vice president.

In 1975, he began his career at Mississippi Valley Gas Company as a meter reader. Then in 1978, for the next six years, he took night classes at Copiah-Lincoln Community

College while working at Armstrong Tire and Rubber Company.

Calvit returned to the gas company in 1984 and remained there when Atmos Energy purchased the company in 2002. Two years later, Calvit received his Master’s in Business Administration and earned the operations supervisor title at Atmos.