28 | November/December 2017
All in time
Britt himself is a Fayetteville native. For the past 20
years, he has been teaching choral music in the Cumberland
County Schools and now does so at Cape Fear High
School, from which he graduated. Britt received his music
education degree from Methodist University and completed
his master's in music at Eastern Carolina University. He
met Holli, his wife, 28 years ago at the University of North
Carolina at Wilmington, where Britt studied for two
years before transferring to Methodist. "I was going to
be a pharmacist," he noted, "but me and chemistry were
not getting along." Holli is a branch coordinator at BB&T
in Westwood Shopping Center. eir daughter, Jessica, a
pharmacist with her degree from ECU, is a proud member
of COS.
Britt wasn't always immersed in music. He says his
family was musical and enjoyed singing and playing the
piano, but he waited until he was in the fih grade before he
