By Ned Seaton
Richard Linton has been named the next president of Virginia Tech.
The Board of Visitors announced him as their pick at a meeting Wednesday at noon. Linton, who obtained undergraduate, master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Tech, said it was “incredibly meaningful” to take over the top job, saying it was a “full-circle moment.” He brought with him and put on the podium a piece of “Hokie stone” from a building project in Blacksburg in 2012 that he said had sat on his desk ever since.
“I am a Hokie, and I’m coming home,” he said.
