Background
Robison, Sylvia Potter was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.
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Sylvia Potter Robison
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Bachelor, Baylor University summa cum laude, 1959; postgraduate, Wesleyan University, 1968-1970.
Career
Teacher, Fort Worth, Texas, 1959-1960; teacher, Department Defense School Royal Air Force, Greenham Common, England, 1961; teacher, principal junior high, Department Defense School Royal Air Force, Brize Norton, England, 1961-1963. Speaker Burlington Vermont Young Women’s Christian Association Women's Day, 1978. Lecturer Institute United States of America and Canada Studies, Academy Sciences of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977, Bowdoin College senior seminar, 1973.
Achievements
Membership
Member national advisory board Reading Is Fundamental, Washington, 1976-1991. Chairman.Vt. State Board Libraries, 1987-1989. Board of trustees Vermont Symphony Orchestra, since 1984, vice president, 1987-1989, president of the board of trustees, 1989-1990, Vermont Folk Life Center, 1987-1992, American Symphony Orchestra League, 1989-1992.
Member of advisory board Sheldon Museum, since 1982. Member Middlebury Town Democratic Committee, since 1975, Middlebury Congressional Church, League of Women Voters. Trustee Frog Hollow State Craft Center, 1983-1987.
Volunteer Portland Symphony Orchestra, Pejepscot History Society, Walker Art Museum. Board directors Porter Hospital Auxiliary, Middlebury, 1975-1985. Member American Association of University Women.
Connections
M. Olin Robison; 3 children.
