Gary Robertson writes about Wayne Batty, who is retiring after having taught in VCU’s music department for 58 years:
Legend, cultural laureate, master teacher. At 85, L. Wayne Batty has just about exhausted the vocabulary of those searching for superlatives to describe him. He is the longest-serving faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University, and he’s Virginia’s longest-serving employee, according to state records.
Those two distinctions will end soon.
“I’m taking early retirement,” Batty said with a laugh.
He’s putting an exclamation mark on 58 years of teaching voice, conducting choral groups and singing the praises of opera in VCU’s department of music.
Click here to read the rest of Robertson’s front page article for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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