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| Title |
Olson, Howard M.
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| Author |
Finley, Judith Reid, 1936-
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| Type of Resource |
mixed material
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| Digital Origin |
reformatted digital
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| Date Created |
1977-01-25
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| Date Digitized |
2010-04-07
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| Rights Statement |
Portions of this interview may only be used for educational or scholarly purposes. All rights in the manuscript and recording, including the right to publish, are reserved to the Colorado College Tutt Library. PERMISSION TO PUBLISH IN ANY FORMAT MUST BE REQUESTED from Special Collections, Colorado College Tutt Library.
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| Description |
A graduate of Colorado College (CC class of 1925), Professor Howard M. Olson remained to teach physics at Colorado College between 1925 and 1969. He completed graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley. Olson remembers: Professors Tileston, Lovitt, Sisam, Daehler, Swart, Boucher, Wright and Presidents Duniway and Mierow. In his interview Olson also talks about classwork, fraternities (Pi Kappa Alpha - engineering), dances at the Broadmoor, Bruin Inn, his teaching philosophy, students during the late sixties, and the building of Olin Hall.
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| Note (admin) |
Digitized from the original Special Collections Audio tape R9. This interview is part of a larger collection totaling 89 individuals. Interview transcripts converted to PDF/A from Microsoft Word. Other file materials, biographical data sheets, indexes, legal releases scanned from originals and converted to text searchable PDF/A using Fujitsu 4150 scanner and Scandallpro software version 1.5. Scanned at 400 dpi. Photos scanned at 500 dpi and saved as jpeg. There are 131 preservation wave files (44.1 kHz, 16-bit) and 131 delivery mp3 files (128 kbps) in the set. Each file represents up to an hour of material, equivalent to one side of a reel-to-reel tape or both sides of a cassette tape. The 262 files are now located on both of two hard drives in Special Collections, the master drive (A1) formatted for Mac and a backup drive (B1) formatted for PC. (.wav preservation masters created by Tom Sanny using Final Cut Pro. Analog tapes digitized as QuickTime 44k16b .mov files. Dead air edited out and sound levels adjusted ; .wav files exported using FCP QuickTime Conversion tool ; .mp3 files created from .wav files using Switch.) All files are monaural.
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| Subject (topic) |
Oral history
Universities and colleges
College students
Alumni
Faculty
Physics
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| Subject (corporate name) |
Colorado College
Colorado College. Dept. of Physics
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| Subject (personal name) |
Olson, Howard M., 1901-1987
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| Subject (time) |
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
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| Subject (geographic) |
Colorado
Colorado Springs (Colo.)
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| Subject (form) |
Personal narratives
Audio recording
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| Publisher |
Colorado College
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| Place of Publication |
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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| Language |
eng
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| Series Title |
Colorado College Oral History Collection
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| Handle |
http://hdl.handle.net/10176/coccc:3004
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