Marie Fuhriman Olsen oral history collection, 1970-2000.

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Marie Fuhriman Olsen oral history collection, 1970-2000.

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Materials related to Marie Fuhriman Olsen and her work in documenting the history of her hometown of Providence, Utah, in particular, and Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho), in general, as well as her numerous oral history interviews of Cache Valley residents. Her interviewees include farmers, store owners, school teachers, extension agents, college professors, and college students, plus a former university president, a doctor, a judge, and a musician. Topics include: the elderly and hospice care, stories of pioneer life and farming in Cache Valley, college life at Utah State University and other schools in the valley, the LDS church and related subjects, such as Mormon missions, the Logan temple and Logan tabernacle, and polygamy. When present, cassette tapes are attached to the inside front cover of each folder. Some folders also include tape transcripts, photographs or slides, letters, history articles, and/or newspaper clippings. Also included in this collection are the Marie Fuhriman Olsen papers (1970-2000), which contain some Olsen family records, materials related to oral histories, Olsen's writings on the elderly, Sunshine Terrace, and hospice care, and Olsen's masters thesis.

3.5 linear feet (7 boxes)

Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8124358

Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library

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Utah State University

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Chase, Daryl, 1901-1984

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President of Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University) from 1954-1968. Chase had a B.A. from the University of Utah, and an M.A. & doctoral degree from the University of Chicago. Before serving as U.S.A.C. president, he had also been director of the Logan LDS Institute of Religion, Dean of Students at U.S.A.C., and President of the Branch Agricultural College in Cedar City (now Southern Utah University). From the description of The Daryl Chase photograph collect...

Fuhriman family.

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Olsen family.

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Olsen, Marie Fuhriman

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Marie Fuhriman Olsen, of Providence City, was born October 19, 1925. After graduating from high school, she attended Utah State University (USU) and then served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She married Blaine Olsen on January 15, 1948. Olsen returned to USU to complete her bachelor's degree in 1976 and soon began working toward an MA in Sociology. Her thesis was entitled "Perceived needs of the elderly in Cache Valley." She held the Rhea H. Gardner Scholarship f...