An educator is calling it a career after 28 years of instructing students in Fayetteville.
On Tuesday, Roosevelt Pratt Jr., the band director for E.E. Smith High School’s “Magnificent Marching Machine,” walked the halls one last time before he retired.
An E.E. Smith alumnus himself, Pratt became band director in 1996, taking over for his former band director and mentor, Paul A. Russell…