Violet Baskam was an instructor in the Music Department at OSC from 1948 to 1952. She received her undergraduate education in music from the University of Michigan in 1943 and received her Master’s degree in 1944. She also studied at Juilliard from 1944 to 1945 and Columbia University from 1945 to 1946. She was born in 1921, in Highland Park, Michigan. She was married while working at OSC. She came to work at OSC in order to be with her husband. Before coming to work at OSC, she worked at the music department at Hendrix College. Her initial salary was $3000. She resigned from OSU in 1952.
