Robert Senner was a native of South Dakota. He
earned a bachelor's degree from Bethel College in 1942
and his master's from Wichita State in 1951. He has
also studied with Julius Herford, Kert Adler, and Robert
Shaw and did graduate work at San Diego State
University and at the University of Minnesota. He taught
briefly at Fowler before moving to Buhler, where he
taught for thirty-one years before retiring in 1974. He
was a member of KMEA, MENC, NATS, and ACDA and
was active as an adjudicator. He directed the choirs at
the Buhler Mennonite Church and was president of the
Mennonite Men's Song Festival.