What Was It Like? Memories of Youth, Family and Career

Was it Like?
Memories of Youth, Family & Career What Was it Like? Farm life in Minnesota in the 1920Õs . . .
going to school in a one-room schoolhouse . . . drifting during
the Great Depression . . . new opportunities opened up by a
college education . . . the decision to move a young family to
India in 1955 . . . the exciting challenges of a 25-year career
spent mainly overseas in India, Italy, and Africa. . . a new life in
retirement near family and friends in Davis, California.
These colorful and often inspiring stories were written by
Russell Olson over a 4-year period from 1994 through 1998,
after many pleas from his family to record memories of his youth
and career.
From his descriptions of a farm boy growing up in a large family
in rural Minnesota during the Depression, to his recollections
of college, career and family, these stories refl ect the joy, wonder
and optimism with which Russ experienced life, and his abiding
interest and genuine concern for the many people around the
world that he had the good fortune to meet.