Bluffton University awarded the Fall 2022 Lifetime Service Award to Kathy (Gaines ’78) Carr, retired educator and administrator from Fort Wayne Community Schools, Bluffton University class of 1978. Major: Elementary education.
Following her path
Over the course of her 40-plus-year career in education, Kathy (Gaines ’78) Carr estimates she touched the lives of roughly 6,000 children. However, the recipient of Bluffton’s Lifetime Service Award explains her dedication to the students, teachers and the larger community of Fort Wayne, Ind., as simply “my path to follow.”