LONGBOAT KEY OBSERVER
Susan Gets off Her Yoga Mat After 30 Years
LONGBOAT KEY NEWS

Longboat Key Education Center Celebrates 30 Years of Passion
WEST COAST WOMAN

Some people have a knack for knowing what people want. When leading a non-profit organization that depends on fees paid by participants for its very existence, responding to people’s desires becomes crucial. Since 1986 Susan Goldfarb has been affiliated with The Longboat Key Education Center and took over the reins as Executive Director in 1997 with the sole purpose of giving people what they want in workshops, lectures, jazz nights, performing arts, films, and day trips. “Laura Taubes, an educator from Scarsdale, founded the Center in 1985 in a charming building where the Longboat Key Observer is now. I did some public relations for Laura and we became good friends. One day at lunch she said she was stepping down and asked if I would take over the Center,” Susan recalls. More…
Fitness classes are only the beginning of Ed Center choices
Date: September 24, 2014
by: Molly Schechter | Contributing Writer