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Posted: 5:16 AM 9/12/2025
The dates for the three sessions of the course Advanced Planning of Your Final Funeral Wishes have changed. The class was originally scheduled to meet September 30, October 7, and October 14. It will now meet October 7, October 14, and October 28. Note that there will be no class on October 21. Time remains 9:30 – 10:30 AM.
Posted: 10:58 AM 9/11/2025
The course Introduction to Bicycling Touring, scheduled to be held September 26, has been canceled at the request of the instrutors.
Posted: 11:13 AM 9/8/2025
The course Home Surveillance Systems, scheduled to be held September 23, has been canceled due to low enrollment.
Every Spring, the Center for Lifelong Learning holds a Remembrance Day to
honor the memory of Dr. Earl F. Kauffman. Dr. Kauffman was one of the
individuals most responsible for the creation of the Academy for Lifelong
Learning, one of the Center's predecessor organizations, back in 1989.
(To learn more about Dr. Kauffman and the founding of the Academy for Lifelong
Learning, please see our History page. Even more
detail may be found in the brochure of the first Kauffman Memorial Lecture
(now called Kauffman Remembrance Day), March 22, 1991. You may
read or download the brochure here.)
Each year on Kauffman Remembrance Day an award is given in Dr. Kauffman's memory to recognize a group or individual who has made significant contributions to the Center. This recognition has been given annually since 1992, three years after the Academy's founding. (2021 was an exception; no luncheon was held due to COVID-19.)
The Kauffman Luncheon is held in April and is funded in part from an endowment created by USC Aiken Professor James Kauffman and his family in memory of his father Earl. All Center members are sent invitations and are encouraged to attend. An RSVP is required for event planning purposes.
You may access a report of this year's event here.
Kauffman Awardees | |
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2025 | Katie Dixon & Susan Steinbis |
2024 | Carl Fields |
2023 | Wayne Rickman |
2022 | Jim Brown |
2021 | None (due to covid) |
2020 | Vicki Collins* |
2019 | Doug Cook |
2018 | Doris Hammond |
2017 | Jim Farmer |
2016 | Nancy Meinhardt |
2015 | Laura Anderson & Mary Anne Cavanaugh |
2014 | Dick Baxter |
2013 | Deidre Martin |
2012 | Vince Coughlin |
2011 | Kathy Schultz |
2010 | Doug Wilson |
2009 | Mike Lythgoe |
2008 | Chuck Braun |
2007 | LouAnn Ainsworth |
2006 | Ray Wright |
2005 | Adele O'Connell |
2004 | William Scott |
2003 | Joan Lacombe |
2002 | Arlene Lane |
2001 | Elizabeth Hutchins |
2000 | Beecher Morton |
1999 | Bob Alexander |
1998 | Jean Haynes |
1997 | Barbara Randall |
1996 | (data lost) |
1995 | George Gaudaen |
1994 | Connie Dunbar |
1992 | Kim Wood Woeber |
*Vicki Collins was selected in 2020, but COVID-19 precluded a Luncheon. Sadly, Vicki died before the award could be presented to her. It was accepted by her husband at the 2022 Luncheon.
The McGrath Computer Learning Center, the other predecessor organization of the Center, selected a Volunteer of the Year during its years of operation 1999–2021. Each year's awardee was nominated by and voted on by the Steering Commitee. You can see the list of awardees here.