| Gordon L. Olson (email
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| Profile
last updated: 10/20/06 |
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Address:
1911 Glendale, NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
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County: Kent |
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Phone
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| E-mail:
Gordon.olson@comcast.net |
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| Academic
Affiliation:Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids Community College |
| Non-academic
affiliation: National Council on Public History, Oral History Association, Historical Society of Michigan |
| Degree: M.S. |
| Major: U.S. History, Michigan and Grand Rapids History |
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| Specialization
areas: Ethnic Studies, History, Native Peoples, Oral History |
| Implementing
projects as: Research, Consultant, Presenter/panelist |
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types: Consultant/planner, presenter/panelist, Research |
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willing to participate: Live events/exhibitions, Media (film, TV, radio) |
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| Past
experience: Wrote proposal and directed West Michigan Vietnamese History Project which included video, book, and archival collection. Grand Rapids City Historian 1978-2003, Ass't Dir. at Public Museum of Grand Rapids 1973-78, Author of several books on Grand Rapids history, most recently editor of Flight To Freedom, the story of West Michigan's Vietnamese refugees. |
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