Trio has lifelong love of learningBy Diane Knich (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
They started learning together in 1940 in Mrs. McCurley's first-grade class at Mitchell Elementary School. And now Donald Barkowitz, Themy Chakeris and Buddy Puckhaber, all in their early 70s, are learning together again at the College of Charleston. The men are taking advantage of a program that waives tuition, on a space-available basis, for people over 60 who take classes at most of the state's public colleges and universities. The men pay a $25 per-course fee to take classes at the College of Charleston. "You can never stop learning. I don't care if you're 90 or 95," said Chakeris, who graduated from the College of Charleston in 1956, then went on to pharmacy and medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina. Read more in tomorrow's editions of The Post and Courier. |
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