OLSONANDREW-1991

Interview with Andrew Olson, 1991

 

July 1991

 

Interviewer: Olsson, Lyn

Andrew C. Olson, Jr., was born November 10, 1917 in San Diego and attended the Training School of the San Diego Normal School, decades before it became San Diego State University. He graduated from Roosevelt Junior High and San Diego High School before returning to San Diego State as an undergrad in Zoology. Olson continued his graduate studies at Berkeley and the University of Idaho, before serving as an Aerial Photographic Officer for the US Army Air Corps during World War II.

After the war, Olson returned once again to San Diego State College, this time as an instructor, and earned his PhD in Zoology at Oregon State University. He also served as chair of SDSU's Zoology department and a teaching staff member of the National Audubon Society's Camp of the West ecology workshop.

Olson retired in 1980.

Interviews; Oral Histories; Andrew C. Olson, Jr.; Lyn Olsson; San Diego State University; San Diego State College; Mrs. Oliver's Maternity House; San Diego Normal School Training School; Hoover High School (San Diego); Ted Williams; Mission Cliff Gardens; Yogi Alpha; San Diego High School; Spreckels Organ Pavilion; California Pacific International Exposition (1935); John Dirks; Sally Rand; Phil Harris; O'Rourke zoological Institute; Frank Gander; Edith Hammack; San Diego Normal School; Katherine Corbett; Dorothy Harvey; William T. Skilling; Clifford Smith; Verna May Squires; Roosevelt Junior High School (San Diego); San Diego Electric Railway; T. Malcolm Brown; San Diego High School Band; Reserve Officers Training Corps; ROTC; San Diego Natural History Museum; United States Post Office; Cameron's Poultry Market; National Youth Authority; Robert D. Harwood; Baylor Brooks; Phi Sigma Xi; Lions Pie Eater's Club; Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild; Gordon Haworth; George Lindsay; Fred Thorne

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