Patrick Scott Washburn

Background

Washburn, Patrick Scott was born on July 24, 1941 in Temple, Texas, United States. Son of Clarence Scott and Evelyn Florence Washburn.

Education

Bachelor, Baylor University, 1963; Master of Arts, Indiana U., 1973; Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana U., 1984.

Career

Sportswriter, Big Spring (Texas) Herald, 1963-1964; sportswriter, Charlottesville (Virginia) Progress, 1964-1966; sportswriter, Atlanta Journal, 1966-1967; assistant sports information director, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967-1969; sports information director, U. Louisville, Kentucky, 1969-1971; reporter, columnist, copy editor, entertainment editor, Rochester (New York) Times-Union, 1973-1979; assistant director, professor, School of Journalism Ohio U., Athens, since 1984. National Collegiate Athletic Association faculty representative Ohio U., Athens, since 1996.

Achievements

• Patrick Scott Washburn has been listed as a noteworthy Journalism school adminstrator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (chair history division 1994-1995, Baskett Moose award 1986), Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Comm., American Journalism Historians Association (board directors since 1996), Kappa Tau Alpha.

Interests

• Avocations: fishing, fly tying, collecting antique fishing lures, racketball.

Connections

Married Glenda Mae Cooke, January 29, 1966. Children: Christopher Scott, Julie Anne.

Father:

Clarence Scott Washburn

Mother:

Evelyn Florence Washburn

Spouse:

Glenda Mae Cooke

child:

Julie Anne Washburn

child:

Christopher Scott Washburn