Olson
Olson still writing after 40 years as Post editor
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Olson
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Lee Olson ('45) may have retired more than a decade ago, but his keyboard hasn't.
A longtime editor at The Denver Post, he stepped down in 1987. Olson wrote
"Marmalade & Whisky: British Remittance Men in the West," published in 1993, and last year he spoke at the Western Social Science Association about Britishers in the American West.
More recently, he wrote free-lance stories for the Post, The Tribune in Mesa, Ariz., and The Des Moines Register. In 1997 a story he wrote for the Post's Empire Magazine won third place in the feature writing category from the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Olson was presented the 1997 Fred A. Rosenstock Award for lifetime achievement from the Denver Posse of Westerners. Olson joined the Post in 1947 and worked there for 40 years.
Lee married Mary Kennedy in 1948. They have three children--Steve, Kristin and Elizabeth.