Arvid Olson

OLSON ATTRILL

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/13/2010 at 17:18:04

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Arvid Olson
By Arvid Olson

Arvid Christian Olson was born May 29, 1951, at 4:22 a.m. at the Methodist Hospital in Sioux City, Iowa, weighing in at 8 lbs 7ozs. He was the third child of Arthur Clarence Olson, Jr and Evelyn Jean (Attrill) Olson of 2309 East 9th, Sioux City, Iowa. Arvid Olson’s two sisters are: Diana Jean (Olson) Pilcher, born October 10, 1946; and Gaylynn Fay (Olson) O’Donnell born September 26, 1948. The first residence was at 701 Colon Street in Sioux City; the family later moved to 3209 East 9th Street.

Arvid attended the First Assembly of God Church at 14th and Myrtle. Attended Roosevelt school in 1957, Franklin school 1957-1963, Woodrow Wilson Junior High School 1954-1967, and Central High ‘the castle on the hill’ 1967 to graduation in 1970. He participated in science, club, debate, school plays, track, football, student council, and received tri-state award in chemistry for science fair projects. Arvid attended the University of Oregon form 1970 to 1974, graduated with a double major in Psychology and Psychology from the University of South Dakota, May 12, 1979 with Bachelor of Science, graduated form WIT Community College August 7, 1981 with diploma in Electronics Communications, and obtained an Associate certified electronic Tech. certification and Federal Communication Commission’s First class radio telephone license.

Along with the help of his loving parents, he put himself through college working at Wilson Trailer, Kentucky Fried Chicken, State Steel, Old Home Bakery and Dynatech all in Sioux City, belonging to the Laborers Union local 427. He worked as a construction worker building Port Neal Power Station No. 3 and 4, Northwestern Telephone Exchange, Sewage Treatment Plant, and Coop Grain elevators. He worked on several Dredgers in the Missouri River. The summer of ’79 he worked as professional photographer for Lil’s Photography of Lawton, Iowa.

From 1979 to 1981 Arvid worked for Communication Professionals, Inc. in Sioux City as a production assistant, director, editor of commercial photography, TV commercials, travelogues, and radio ads and went to 1980 Winter Olympics as a Commercial photographer. In 1981 he worked for television stations as a licensed TV engineer: KPNE TV Sutherland, Nebraska; KWNB TV Sutherland; and KTIV Channel 4 Sioux City, Iowa.

Arvid has done volunteer work for local cable TV public access station and produce-write short video shorts for Kanyon Kid on Channel 9 KCAU TV in Sioux City, also volunteer as disc jockey for KUSD radio and KMSD radio at Morningside College. A member of Honor society in High School and College, he is pursuing a Masters degree in Mass Communications. Hobbies include photography, movie film making, electronics, hang gliding, motorcycles, genealogy and collecting historical documentary old photographs.
Writings of Arvid Christian Olson (1976):

Be here now. Realize where you are at, what you are doing, who you are, when, and why? What thing of beauty have you done today? Ask yourself why you do or don’t do? How do you know for sure what you know? What don’t you know? We overlook, underhear, undersmell and untouch a tasteless world about, around and inside us! Look not at this world on just a superficial surface level. Look through, inside, and at different focal points stretching out to infinity. Never overlook the obvious, for it may have always been there, just out of reach, off the tip of your nose. Breathe through your nostrils, and behold the beauty of your vesseled body of life. Stretch your limbs, and know thyself art free? It is not enough to mechanically move just limbs to and fro but blindly sense and experience fingers and nose flowing and glowing. Move and think as though persecution cannot reach you. Be free within yourself and know your body is alive. Your unshackled mind is freeeee!! We put on our own harness and choke collars. Rise about the stagnation in yourself, and break the chains that hold you. If the chain persist within you, then mark this well in your mind: can’t push a chain, but can only pull it. Many push things away before ready to give them up. Adults push away childish things without realizing what they are sacrificing. Experience rebirth as of a child. Dare to be open, trust in blind love, and reach out in curious wonder and wander. Life can be a womb of consciousness, curiosity to no end. Imagine yourself out in cosmic space moving beyond the speed of light. That part of you is a pure thought projected outside your bag of flesh, galaxtically traveling immeasurable distances in a single blinking of an eye. Cut that umbilical cord to earth and thoughtfully flirt with and live within the oneness of all. I am my universe is only a thought away. I am who I am because I am what I am. I am more than I can see, you are more then you can hear, taste, smell, and touch. Do you know your body? Our body is but merely a grain of sand passing through the aged old hour glass of the universe. Don’t rust through life, just flow in rhythm as does a river, seek not to paddle vainly away form death but welcome it as would the site of a waterfall into a different level of transformation. It is not when a man dies, it what dies in a man before he dies. It’s not what you know, it’s how you came to know what you know. Time through an hour glass should be used advantageously, and not wasted. Live each day as though it were your last. A person lived 19??-????, but he or she lived on that dash. So lose your old self, so that you hay find a new you. GOD BLESS, ARVID CHRISTIAN OLSON (1976-Earth)