Background
Washburn, Alphonso Victor was born on August 4, 1912 in Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States. Son of Alphonso Victor and Mary Edith (Greene) Washburn.
Washburn, Alphonso Victor was born on August 4, 1912 in Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States. Son of Alphonso Victor and Mary Edith (Greene) Washburn.
Bachelor, Wake Forest U., 1933; postgraduate, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1934-1948; Master of Arts, George Peabody College, 1951; postgraduate, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1955-1957; Doctor of Letters (honorary), Georgetown College, 1956.
Summer field worker, North Carolina Baptist Convention, 1929-1932; superintendent young people's Sunday School work, Sunday School Board, Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, 1933-1943; secretary teaching and training, Sunday School Board, Society Baptist Convention, Nashville, 1946-1957; director Sunday school department, Sunday School Board, Society Baptist Convention, Nashville, 1958-1977; retired, Sunday School Board, Society Baptist Convention, Nashville, 1977. Member coordinating committee inter-agency county Southern Baptist Convention, 1958-1977. Member of commission on Christian teaching and training Baptist World Alliance, 1965-1975, secretary commission, 1970-1975, member coordinating committee division evangelism and education, since 1976.
(Young people in the Sunday School hardcover book)
Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1945. Member Eastern, Southwestern, Southern Baptist religious education associations.
Married Ethel Kate Allison, December 16, 1933. Children: Ann Allison, James Kent, Mary Janet.