Henlay Foster, 84, earns his degree in music May 21 after completing his final credits online
Back when Henlay Foster first enrolled at Washington University in St. Louis, Ethan Shepley was chancellor, Olin Library didn’t exist and the campus had, at long last, racially integrated. That was 1954.
Now, 67 years later, Foster will graduate Friday, May 21, with a degree in music from Arts & Sciences at the age of 84. In the intervening years, Foster traveled the world, played and taught piano, and led one of the federal government’s more important programs in the fight against poverty.
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