The Spring 2026 catalog is ready, and we are excited for the upcoming offerings! If you need additional catalogs, please visit any of the four recreation centers during operating hours.
Important Notes:
Due to early production deadlines, many classes were not included in the catalog. To read more about these classes, click HERE. Details of all the classes (price, maximum learners, etc.) are available on the registration website. To view classes sorted by the day of the week or activity type, click the links below. ***Please note these files have been updated since last week's newsletter.
Classes sorted by DAY OF THE WEEK
Classes sorted by ACTIVITY TYPE
CATALOG CHANGES, EDITS & CLARIFICATIONS:
+Multi-Week Class #627-Learn to Play PINOCHLE: Instructors are Pat Diani & Lorrie Manthey
+Multi-Week Class #632-Smart Investing with Free Tools is CANCELLED.
+Single Class 632C-Experiences in the African Safari was accidentally omitted from the sorted files shared last week. It will meet Monday, April 27 @ 1 PM ($5, Northside Rec. Center).
+Multi-Week classes typically last 4 weeks. The following Multi-Week classes meet a different number of times, indicated by the number in parenthesis.
601-Basic French II (8: Mondays/Tuesdays)
623-The Impact of African American Culture in Rock Hill (3)
631-Six Magnificent International Gardens (2)
633/634-Speaking A.I.-A Beginner's Guide (2 each)
636-Teaching with LL@RH (2 days, same week: Monday/Tuesday)
639-Stay Strong, Stay Safe: Wellness for Seniors (4 classes, 2 weeks: Tuesday/Thursday)
676-The Natural History Journeys...(2 classes: March 12 & March 26)
678-Integrating Native Plants (2)
+The following Art classes also meet more than once:
682-Hand-Built Pottery for Beginners (2: Feb. 5 & Feb. 19)
683-Hand-Built Pottery for Beginners (2: April 23 & May 7)
687-Watercolor for Beginners (2)
698-Wire Wrapping Jewelry (2)
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Meet the Spring 2026 Instructors!
Lifelong Learning exists because of our tremendous volunteer instructors! Click HERE to learn about the knowledgeable and generous instructors for the spring semester.
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 If you have questions about the upcoming spring classes, you want to discuss the content with the instructors or you simply are excited to kick off the semester with fellow lifelong learners, be sure to attend the Open House event following the City Manager's presentation.
IN-PERSON REGISTRATION: Opens at 9 AM on Thursday, Jan. 22. You may register in-person at the following locations:
***Northside Recreation Center (900 Annafrel St.)
***Boyd Hill Recreation Center (1165 Constitution Blvd.)
***Emmett Scott Recreation Center (825 Crawford Rd.)
***Fewell Park Recreation Center (1204 Alexander Rd.)
***Manchester Meadows-office (337 E. Mount Gallant Rd.)
NORTHSIDE RECREATION CENTER SPECIFICS:
This registration site will have the most staff and registration stations available to assist you. You will register on a first-come, first-served basis. Paying by cash or check (made payable to the City of Rock Hill) will allow you to register at ANY of the registration stations. Credit card payments can only be made at two of the registration stations.
Numbers for claiming your spot in line will not be distributed. You will choose your line in the order of your arrival and be served when it is your turn. Doors for registration will not open until 8:55 AM. Anyone who arrives prior to that will form a waiting line in the gym.
OTHER VENUES: Staff will be happy to assist you at the other four venues listed; however, they will only have one registration station per location.
ONLINE REGISTRATION: Opens at 10 AM on Thursday, Jan. 22. Please be sure to practice accessing your account PRIOR to January 22 so you will have time to contact staff should you need assistance.
PHONE REGISTRATION: Beginning at noon on Thursday, Jan. 22 and thereafter, you may call 803-329-5527, 803-325-2568 or 803-329-5620 to register by phone. Messages received while assisting other customers will be returned as promptly as possible.
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In attempt to accommodate many learners, the Advisory Committee and staff agreed to offer waitlist priority registration on a trial basis for this semester. Learners who were on a waitlist for the Fall 2025 semester for a class that will be offered again this spring will have priority registration for the repeated classes. Staff will be reaching out to these learners individually. Please be sure to read and open emails/text messages and respond by deadlines to take advantage of such opportunities.
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Volunteers are used throughout the semester to assist as a greeter, a class point-person, a room restter or more. If you are interested in adding your name to the volunteer database, please contact Pam.Price@cityofrockhill.com / 803-325-2568.
Thank you to our volunteers who serve regularly, and most recently to those who assisted with prepping the catalogs for mailing!
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Don't wait for the spring semester to exercise your mind and expand your knowledge. Make plans to attend this winter lecture!
 On August 13, 1946, George Elmore arrived at his regular polling place in Columbia, South Carolina. He requested a ballot to vote in the Democratic Party primary but was turned away. While the general election would not occur until November, everyone in SC understood that the results of the election would really be decided on that late summer afternoon. South Carolina was a one-party state, and the segregationist Democratic Party had endured as the uncontested rulers of state politics since the end of political Reconstruction in the late 1870s. No Black man or woman had cast a meaningful ballot in South Carolina in nearly as long. For Elmore and others in the state, the day had come to reclaim this most precious American right.
Carolyn Click's The Cost of the Vote centers on Elmore and the activists and lawyers who successfully challenged the all-white primary in South Carolina. Although Elmore's court challenge would prove successful, he paid a steep personal price. He died a decade after the case, ruined financially. His family was scattered because of the hostility provoked by his activism. The political rewards for Black voters also remained long in coming, and Elmore would not survive to see the full flowering of the 1960s voting rights movement.
The Cost of the Vote is the story of a man who believed, with uncommon boldness, that he and other Black Americans were guaranteed the right to vote.
Carolyn Click is an author, journalist and teacher. She was Virginia Editor for United Press International and a reporter at the Roanoke (VA) Times before coming to The State in Columbia, SC. After a newspaper career, Click taught in the University of South Carolina (USC) School of Journalism and Mass Communications and in USC's Honors College.
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