SC's Darla Moore to fund $25M education center in her hometown

FILE – This March 24, 2011 file photo shows Darla Moore speaking to students at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, S.C. For the first time in it’s 80-year history, Augusta National Golf Club has female members. The home of the Masters, under increasing criticism the last decade because of its all-male membership, invited […]

by: Associated Press

Posted: Mar 8, 2019 / 03:34 PM EST

Updated: Mar 9, 2019 / 01:37 AM EST

LAKE CITY, S.C. (AP) — Investor and philanthropist Darla Moore is creating an education center in her South Carolina hometown.

News outlets reported Moore is setting up a $25 million center known as The Continuum in Lake City, a city of about 7,000 people about 75 miles (120 kilometers) east of Columbia.

Moore said the center will be a vision for what education could and probably should be. Classes start in August.

The Darla Moore Foundation is working with Francis Marion University in Florence and Florence-Darlington Technical College to create the center.

Moore said in a news release that South Carolina needs a better education system to meet the needs of employers such as Volvo in Ridgeville and Boeing in North Charleston.

Moore is a former president and partner of the investment firm Rainwater Inc.