Background
Olson, Bonnie Waggoner-Breternitz was born in North Platte, Nebraska, United States. Daughter of Floyd Emil and Edith (Waggoner) Breternitz.
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Bonnie Waggoner-Breternitz Olson
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Bachelor of Arts, University of Chicago, 1947.
Career
Deputy clerk District Court, LincolnCounty, Nebraska, 1940-1942. Advertising researcher Burke & Association, Chicago, 1942. Contributing newspaper columnist Chicago Herald-American, 1943.
Social worker American Red Cross, Chicago, 1942-1944, Sacramento, California, 1944, Amarillo, Texas, 1945.
Executive secretary Econometrica, Cowles Common for Research in Economics, Chicago, 1945-1947. Interior designer, antique dealer.
Colonel. Participant Chicago Maternity Center Fund Drive, 1953, Chicago Council on Foreign Rels., 1948-1954.
Member Colorado Springs Community Council, 1956-1958, chairman children"s division, 1956-1958, member Executive Board, 1956-1958, member budget committee, 1957-1958. Member Colorado Springs Charter Association, 1956-1960, member Executive Board, 1957-1959, secretary, 1958.
Chairman El Paso County Parent-Teachers Association, Protective Superior vena cava syndrome for Children, 1959-1961. Chairman women"s division fund drive American Red Cross, 1961.
Member League Women Voters,1957, member state children"s law committee, 1961-1963.
Chairman ad hoc committee ElPaso County Citizens" Committee for National Probation and Parole Survey, Juvenile Court Procedures and Detention, 1957-1961. Member children"s advising committee Colorado Child Welfare Department, 1959-1963, chairman, 1961. Delegate White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1960, 70.
Secretary Citizens Ad Hoc Committee for Comprehensive Mental Health Clinic for Pikes Peak Region, 1966.
Member Colorado Springs Human Rels. Commission, 1968-1971.
Sustaining member Symphony Guild, 1970-1972, Fine Arts Center, 1957. Member Pikes Peak Mental Health Center, 1964-1967 (board directors).
Colorado observer White House Conference on Aging, 1981, Colorado Governor"s Conference on Aging, 1981, District Attorney"s Child AbuseTask Force, 1986.
Panelist career planning documentary film Not Justa Job, Radcliffe College Career Superior vena cava syndrome, 1990. Counselor Health Information Needs of Elders (Massachusetts Shine Program), 1992.
Achievements
Membership
Member Colorado Springs Community Council, 1956-1958, chairman children"s division, 1956-1958. Member Colorado Springs Charter Association, 1956-1960. Member League Women Voters,1957.
Member children"s advising committee Colorado Child Welfare Department, 1959-1963, chairman, 1961.
Member Colorado Springs Human Rels. Commission, 1968-1971.
Member Pikes Peak Mental Health Center, 1964-1967 (board directors). Member American Academy Political and Social Science, National Trust Historic Preservation, Women"s Ednl.
Society Colorado College (life), Council on Religion and International Affairs.
Connections
Married O. Donald Olson, May 17, 1944;children: Pamela Lynne, Douglas Donald. Children: Pamela Lynne, Douglas Donald.
