Upon
graduation, he taught instrumental music for fourteen years
in the Shoreline School District, eight years as the director
of bands at Shorewood High School. After completing a masters
degree in education administration at Seattle Pacific University,
Rob spent the last sixteen years of his career as a school
administrator in the Arlington School District retiring as
the assistant superintendent.
Besides his involvement with the North Cascades Concert
Band, Rob is the past president of the Everett Symphony
Board and of the Everett Youth Symphony.
In his spare
time Rob enjoys his grandchildren, golfing, hiking, boating, fishing, telling
jokes and, of course, listening to music. Rob has been a
practicing
trombonist for more than 50 years, and has been with the North Cascades Concert Band since 2000, first as a trombonist, and now as director