Notebook: National Road musical; Rick Vatz lecture hall; Gary Alexander poems
Towson University last week named a lecture hall for longtime rhetoric professor Richard Vatz, who is retiring this month as he turns 76 on Wednesday.The auditorium-style Room 204 in Van Bokkelen Hall has long been the venue for Vatz’s popular Persuasion class. Throughout the years, Vatz has presented the class with many guest lecturers, mostly politicians and public figures.
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