Simon Elfrink Sports Editor selfrink@murraystate.edu Murray State’s department of journalism and mass communications has spent the spring semester preparing to send off Robert Valentine, who has been an instructor in Wilson Hall since 1974. Valentine explained his move from New York to Kentucky was not a linear decision. After bouncing around the nation for business Read More
Story by Amy Turner, Staff writer Photo by Mackenzie O’Donley/The News With his earliest classes beginning at 8:30 a.m, by 4:30 p.m. Robert Valentine is ready to head home. Valentine is a senior lecturer in advertising for the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications. He teaches a wide variety of classes from introductory to upper-level Read More
Self-identified as “the bald one,” faculty member Robert Valentine combines jokes and journalism in a unique teaching style that makes him one of a kind. “I’m the bald one,” Valentine joked. “That is how I would describe myself to a stranger. I am acutely aware of my absence of hair.” Valentine has been a Murray Read More