Paul A. Olson

(1932- ) lived at Wahoo, lives in Lincoln. Educator, scholar, author, known as co-founder of Project English Center at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, one of the first three regional centers funded in 1961 by the U.S. Office of Education, was primary author/editor of the 44-volume A Curriculum for English/Grades 1-12 (1961), the majority of which were used nationwide; founder of UNL Center for Great Plains Studies in 1976 and founder of UNL School at the Center in 1992, with major funding from the Annenberg Rural Challenge, a national effort to reform rural schools; author/editor, often with others, of some 70 books, reports, and articles on educational reform, literary criticism, and humanities issues; obtained nearly $6 million in research grants. Consult Nebraska Education News, February 2, 1968, p. 6 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, September 9, 1979, pp. 10, 22 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, Autumn 1998, pp. 24-27 and Lincoln Journal Star, July 15, 1999, p. X-13 and Omaha World Herald, October 11, 2001, pp. E-1, E-2.

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