South Carolina H 4945: Road use fees

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2025-2026 Bill 4945 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 15, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4945

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A house RESOLUTION

to recognize and honor Linda Ketron, founder of 
CLASS Publishing and the Moveable Feast literary luncheon program in Georgetown 
County, and to congratulate her upon receiving the 2025 Frances Mims-Paul 
Talmadge Literary Advocacy Award.

Whereas, the Frances 
Mims-Paul Talmadge Literary Advocacy Award is given biennially by the Board of 
Governors of the South Carolina Academy of Authors (SCAA), to honor individuals 
or organizations that have demonstrated long and continuing service to the 
literary arts in South Carolina; and

Whereas, the late 
Frances Mims, an English professor at Anderson College, and the late Paul 
Talmadge, a vice president and academic dean at Anderson College, established 
the SCAA together in 1986, and the literary advocacy award honors them; and 

Whereas, Ms. Ketron has 
served as the founder/director of CLASS (Community Learning About Special 
Subjects) for more than a quarter of a century, and for a dozen years she has 
served as editor/publisher of CLASS Publishing, releasing seventy-three books 
of genres which include children's, fiction, history, memoir, poetry, and 
photography. Most reflect South Carolina subjects, many of them based in the 
Lowcountry, with a special division devoted to Brookgreen Gardens; and

Whereas, in 1998, she 
founded the Moveable Feast program, a year-round, weekly literary luncheon that 
has brought a thousand writers to restaurants and event halls on the Waccamaw 
Neck and has attracted more than a hundred thousand readers to connect with and 
learn from those writers; and

Whereas, a native 
Oregonian, Ms. Ketron began the first of several careers in San Francisco in 
the 1970s. She earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Whittier 
College in California and a master's degree in health services administration from 
the Antioch College in San Francisco; and

Whereas, she and her 
playwright/screenwriter husband moved from Manhattan to Pawleys Island in 1988. 
Since then, she has created and administered several continuing education 
programs for senior citizens, including Senior Semesters, Campus Brookgreen, 
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Coastal Carolina University, a position 
she held for eleven years, and CLASS, now in its third decade; and 

Whereas, for twenty years, 
Ms. Keaton owned and managed Art Works, a fine arts gallery for local artists, 
several of whom became illustrators for later CLASS children's books; and

Whereas, in 1994, Ms. 
Ketron initiated the Waccamaw Neck Bikeway, and now the seventeen miles of 
walking and cycling paths connecting Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island have 
recently been completed. A lifelong library advocate, she has served on the 
FOWL (Friends of Waccamaw Library) board of the Waccamaw Neck Branch Library 
since 1990 as a member, chair of several committees, secretary, vice president, 
president, and now editor of the FOWL Community Connector, a twice monthly e-newsletter 
promoting all library and community nonprofits' program opportunities; and

Whereas, she was 
honored by receiving the 2025 Frances Mims-Paul Talmadge Literary Advocacy 
Award on April 12, 2025, with a festive luncheon in the Campus Room at the 
University of South Carolina in Columbia, which featured readings from six 
CLASS Publishing authors and a repeat Moveable Feast presenter Kathryn Smith. Now, 
therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:

That the members of the 
South Carolina House of Representatives, 
by this resolution, recognize and honor Linda Ketron, founder of CLASS 
Publishing and the Moveable Feast literary luncheon program in Georgetown 
County, and congratulate her upon receiving the 2025 Frances Mims-Paul Talmadge 
Literary Advocacy Award.

Be it further resolved 
that a copy of this resolution be presented to Linda Ketron.

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