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Dr. Gordon B. Olson
Oct. 19, 1924-June 30, 2009
POSTED: July 4, 2009
Dr. Gordon B. Olson, 84, former Minot State University president, died Tuesday, June 30, 2009, during a brief stay in a Minot nursing home.
Gordon was born Oct. 19, 1924, at Almont, the oldest of four children of B.T. and Hulda (Monson) Olson. He attended rural schools in Morton County and graduated from Almont High School. He attended a year at Jamestown College, before enlisting with the U.S. Army during World War II. He honorably served his country in the Pacific Theatre of the war, including the Luzon Campaign in the Philippines. He participated in the Army Specialist Training Program, which trained doctors, dentists and engineers. It was through this program that Gordon attended the University of Alabama, Manhattan College in New York, and Syracuse University in New York.
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