Hyde Park High School - Blue Book Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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D L, MARTIN L. OLSON Co-Orclinofor 7932 - 7945

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The BLUE BUCK for T945

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CATICDN The members of the Senior Class take pride and pleasure in dedicating the Blue Book to Mr. Martin L. Olson, since 1932, co-ordinator of the Co-operative Industrial and Mechanic Arts Courses. Mr. Olson has been a member of the Boston School Department for thirty-three years. He came to Hyde Park High School in 1915 as an instructor of drafting and mathematics. In 1932, he succeeded as head of his department Mr. james Clarke under whom Hyde Park High enjoyed the distinction of being the first general high school in Boston to introduce the co-operative industrial courses. Before entering the schools, Mr. Olson had a career in the Navy and later in industry. He wasformerly a C. P.O., Warrant Machinist in the U. S. Navy. Later he was supervisor of apprentices at the Boston Navy Yard. Still later he was connected as toolmaker with the United Shoe Machine Co. and draftsman with the Brown 6? Sharpe Mfg. Co. and the Pratt Whitney Co. His present work and his previous affiliations have given him a wide acquaintanceship among the hundreds of industrialists and business men of Greater Boston. He holds the degree of B.S. from Boston Teachers College and has pre- pared for an advanced degree at Tech., Harvard, and Boston University. He is a former vice president and member of the board of directors of the Hyde Park Board of Trade and member of the Board of Managers of the Hyde Park Y.M.C.A. His other clubs include the Kiwanis Club, thd Mass. School- masters Club, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Boston Schoolmen's Economic Association, and the Mass. Audubon Society. ,gi Mr. Olson is also corporation clerk of the Hyde P T ngregational Church. He has traveled extensively' through the country. His hobbies are skiing, mountain climbing, gardening, and ornithology. His experiences, training and ability have probably had more variety than falls to the lot of the average man and we know that in retirement he will find many demands on his time and talent to keep him busy, useful, and happy. The members of the Senior Class, in behah' of all the pupils now in the school and of the many generations offormer pupils, unite in saying to Mr. Olson, You have devoted the best years of your We to the technical training of the boys of this district. For that and for your innumerable acts of kindness, we thank you. We wish you many leisurely years of peace and happiness. We hope that this little dedication may provide some small satisfaction to you as you leave your active life of loyal teachingfor the quiet years of retirement that you have so thoroughly merited.