WASHBURN, ROBERT

Robert Brooks Washburn was born in Bouckville, a village twenty miles southwest of Utica, New York, in 1928. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the State University College of New York at Potsdam, where he later became Dean of the Crane School of Music. Washburn served for four years with the U.S. Air Force before he returned to Potsdam to join the music faculty. In 1958 he was awarded a Danforth Foundation Grant to complete a...