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2025-2026 Bill 4945: Linda Ketron, 2025 Frances Mims-Paul Talmadge Literary Advocacy - South Carolina Legislature Online
South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 4945
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House Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. Hewitt, Anderson, Alexander, Atkinson, Bailey, Ballentine, Bamberg, Bannister, Bauer, Beach, Bernstein, Bowers, Bradley, Brewer, Brittain, Burns, Bustos, Calhoon, Caskey, Chapman, Chumley, Clyburn, Cobb-Hunter, Collins, Cox, Crawford, Cromer, Davis, Dillard, Duncan, Edgerton, Erickson, Ford, Forrest, Frank, Gagnon, Garvin, Gatch, Gibson, Gilliam, Gilliard, Gilreath, Govan, Grant, Guest, Guffey, Haddon, Hager, Hardee, Harris, Hart, Hartnett, Hartz, Hayes, Henderson-Myers, Herbkersman, Hiott, Hixon, Holman, Hosey, Howard, Huff, J.E. Johnson, J.L. Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Kilmartin, King, Kirby, Landing, Lastinger, Lawson, Ligon, Long, Lowe, Luck, Magnuson, Martin, McCabe, McCravy, McDaniel, McGinnis, C. Mitchell, D. Mitchell, Montgomery, J. Moore, T. Moore, Morgan, Moss, Neese, B. Newton, W. Newton, Oremus, Pace, Pedalino, Pope, Rankin, Reese, Rivers, Robbins, Rose, Rutherford, Sanders, Schuessler, Scott, Sessions, G.M. Smith, M.M. Smith, Spann-Wilder, Stavrinakis, Taylor, Teeple, Terribile, Vaughan, Waters, Weeks, Wetmore, White, Whitmire, Wickensimer, Williams, Willis, Wooten and Yow
Document Path: LC-0457WAB-GM26.docx
Introduced in the House on January 15, 2026
Adopted by the House on January 15, 2026
Summary: Linda Ketron, 2025 Frances Mims-Paul Talmadge Literary Advocacy
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
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1/15/2026
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A
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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.
W
hereas, 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
W
hereas, 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
W
hereas, 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
W
hereas, 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
W
hereas, 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
W
hereas, 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
W
hereas, 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
W
hereas, 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
W
hereas, 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,
B
e it resolved by the
House of Representatives
:
T
hat 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.
B
e it further resolved
that a copy of this resolution be presented to Linda Ketron.
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