David Olson:  

I transferred to MVHS from Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA, for my senior year. It was not a change I welcomed for obvious reasons but my father worked for GSA in San Francisco at the time and the GSA closed out the office but offered him a position in Arlington, Virginia, which he accepted. Fortunately when I signed up for MVHS, I was encouraged to join the yearbook staff because I had expressed interest in photography. The yearbook opportunity gave me entrée to many of the groups at MVHS and I was able to make some friends and survive the year. After I graduated from MVHS I was interested in attending the Brooks School of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. Unfortunately, my father would not support it and I couldn’t pursue my strong interest in photography. I traveled to the UK and Europe during the fall of ‘71 and then attended NVCC for nearly two years. In June 1973, I decided to return to Berkeley. I reacquainted with a woman I knew from Berkeley High School. We eventually got married and settled down. We had two children quite early and I embarked on a financial management career at Bank of America Trust Department in San Francisco for ten years during which I also completed a BS degree in Applied Economics at the University of San Francisco. In the late 1980s the Bank of...Expand for more