Winneshiek County IAGenWeb  Luther College through sixty years, 1861-1921 Pictures and Biographical information courtesy of Sharyl Ferrall

Olaf Morgan Norlie

Luther College faculty biography and personal information, pg 94 & 113

Olaf Morgan Norlie, 1919—. Rural Teacher, Norway, S. Dak., 1896; B.S., M. Accts., Dixon College, 1897; A. B., St. Olaf College, 1898, and Teacher, 1897-1898; Teacher, Humholdt College, 1898-1899, Milwaukee State Normal School, 1899 (graduate); attended Wisconsin lnstitute Conductors' lnstitute, 1900-1903; Teacher, La Crosse (Wis.) High School, 1900; A. M., University of Wisconsin, 1901; Teacher, Stoughton (Wis.) High School, 1901-1903, Supt. Rushford (Minn.) Schools, 1903-1904; Teacher of English, United Church Seminary, St. Paul, and Student of Theology, 1904-1907, Cand. Theol., 1907; Student, University of Minnesota, 1904-1905, 1907-1908, Ph. D., 1908; Teacher of Parochial School, at intervals; Lutheran Pastor, Atwater, Minn., 1907-1915; Ph.D., Dixon College, 1910; S. T. D., Augustana College (Ill.), 1915; Book Editor, Reference Librarian, Director of Norwegian Lutheran lnformation Bureau, Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, 1915-1919, Director of School Survey, 1917-1918, and Teachers' Agency, 1917-1919; Litt. D., Wittenberg College, 1917, Secretary, Educational Association of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, 1918-1920; Student of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1918-1919; Professor of Psychology and Sociology, Luther College, 1919—, also Hebrew, Christianity, and Education, 1919—; President, American Lutheran Statistical Association, 1917—; Chairman of Statistical Committee at National Lutheran Council, 1919—, and Librarian of its Lutheran Bureau, New York City, 1920—; Editor and Author of many Works, Joint Editor "Christian Keyser Preus", 1921-1922; Member of many Committees and Educational and Learned Associations.

Personal information: Born January 11, 1876 in Sioux City, Iowa. Parents, Ole H. Norlie and Martha Karolina Juel. Married Anna Louise Bonhus, 1902. Residence, Decorah, Iowa

He is also pictured in the Luther Faculty, 1922 photo

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