It has been 27 years since William Rogers retired as the Music Choral Director at Maryvale High School in Cheektowaga, but his former students never forgot him. They surprised him with a concert on his 85 th birthday.
Rogers served in that position over the course of four decades, working at the school from 1962 until 1998.
For this long-time educator’s 85 th birthday, dozens of his former students got together for months, planning a surprise concert for him to mark the milestone…