Olson, Roy, “Olson, Roy (Interview outline and video), 2008,” Digital Collections, accessed April 9, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29335.
Roy Olson was born in Minneapolis in 1922 and later moved to Michigan where he graduated from high school in 1941. He then began taking pre-dental classes at college and was a sophomore when he was drafted into the Army Medical Corps. Roy had basic training in Illinois for 6 weeks and was then transferred to work at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington DC. Roy worked in DC for a year and was then sent to work in two other hospitals in Hawaii for about another year.