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Class Canceled
Posted: 10:55 AM 1/27/2025
The course Brain & Body Fitness by Ageless Grace II has been canceled due to low enrollment.
Classes Re-scheduled
Posted: 3:18 PM 1/24/2025 (updated 9:35 AM 1/30/2025)
Dates and times for makeup sessions are listed below for the following classes that were postponed due to the inclement weather of January 21 - 23:
All other sessions of each of the above classes will be held at the originally scheduled times. Re-scheduled sessions will meet in the same classroom as originally scheduled.
Classroom Location Changes
Posted: 10:02 AM 1/21/2025
The following classes have been moved to different rooms to accommodate a larger number of registrants:
- What to Know About End-of-Life Preparation moved to Room 106 of the Penland Building.
- Venona Papers: Cold War Espionage moved to Room 116 of the Business and Education Building.
- Helene and its Impact on the CSRA moved to Room 116 of the Business and Education Building.
- Beethoven's Ninth moved to Room 116 of the Business and Education Building.
- Near Misses & Untold Truths moved to Room 106 of the Penland Building.
- Life as an Indian Trader moved to Room 106 of the Penland Building.
2022 Kauffman Award Presented to
Jim Brown
The annual Kauffman Award for outstanding service to the Center for Lifelong Learning was presented to Jim Brown at the annual Earl F. Kauffman Remembrance Day Luncheon, April 21, 2022.
In Jim's working life he was a chemical engineer who spent his entire career with Olin Corporation.
He retired in 2007 as Director of Environmental Remediation, managing cleanups of Olin’s past disposal areas and former plant sites.
Jim moved to Aiken after retirement and joined SeniorNet, predecessor of the McGrath Computer Learning Center, in 2008. He created several course manuals for Aiken SeniorNet and McGrath, and taught and coached many technical courses over the years. Jim served as Coordinator of Aiken SeniorNet from 2009 through 2011 then served on the SeniorNet/McGrath Board that managed McGrath’s separation from SeniorNet in 2015.
Jim has had a love of computers since 1977, so he was a natural to serve as SeniorNet/McGrath’s webmaster from 2010 until 2021. Then, when McGrath merged with the Academy for Lifelong Learning to form the Center for Lifelong Learning, Jim took on the daunting task of combining the McGrath and Academy websites into a new comprehensive website.
Jim and his wife Debbie enjoy traveling, hiking—especially in the mountains—and being with their grandchildren. Even though they moved 140 miles northwest to Mountain Rest, SC in 2020 to be closer to the mountains, Jim has maintained his involvement with McGrath, and now the Center for Lifelong Learning, in Aiken. For his hard work and dedication to the senior education community, the Center for Lifelong Learning proudly names Jim Brown as the recipient of the 2022 Kauffman Award.