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| Title: | All about Scandinavia |
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| Moderator: | TLE::SAVAGE |
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| Created: | Wed Dec 11 1985 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 603 |
| Total number of notes: | 4325 |
150.0. "K.O.'s Scandinavian connection" by TLE::SAVAGE (Neil, @Spit Brook) Tue Oct 14 1986 12:31
The October 27, 1986 issue of Fortune magazine hails Ken Olsen as
"America's most successful entrepreneur." The article about him, which
was written by Peter Petre and begins on Page 24, includes the
following account of how he met his wife.
At the start of this account, Ken Olsen was a student helper in
MIT professor Jay Forrester's computer lab. His immediate supervisor
was Norman Taylor.
"In the spring of 1950, recalls Taylor, Olsen asked for six month's
leave, and vanished from the campus without explaning his plans.
When he came back, he had a wife. He had met Eeva-L�sa Aulikki
Valve, the daughter of a Finnish minister, when she was an exchange
student in his hometown [Stratford, Connecticut]. During his leave,
Olsen had followed her back to Scandinavia, and taken a job as an
electrician at a Swedish ball-bearing factory to pay his way while
her courted her."
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| 150.1 | | ECCGY4::JAERVINEN | Bitte ein Bit! | Wed Oct 15 1986 06:35 | 1 |
| Eeva-Liisa...
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| 150.2 | Re: Fortune's typo | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Wed Oct 15 1986 10:15 | 3 |
| Re: .1: Thanks for the corrected spelling. Now, the readers of this
conference are among the select few that know the actual full name of
Ken Olsen's wife.
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| 150.3 | | ECCGY1::JAERVINEN | Bitte ein Bit! | Fri Oct 17 1986 05:08 | 8 |
| I didn't know it either - but still able to correct the spelling
:-)
(A lot of Finnish names have a double i - when handwritten, people
often interpret it as �, especially here in Germany, because it
looks the same and people aren't used to ii's [that's waht happens
to my wife all the time!]).
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| 150.4 | Ties to Norway/Sweden also. | BEAGLE::MULELID | | Mon Oct 20 1986 05:15 | 8 |
| K.O. have got other ties to scandinavia also. His grandfather Charles
Olsen was a carpenter coming from Fredrikstad in Norway. It is also
said that Ken spent a lot of time with his grandparents as a child,
and although they spoke good english they used mostly norwegian
at home. His grandparents on his mother side comes from Sweden.
Svein.
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| 150.5 | KO receives Ericsson Medal from Sweden's King | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Fri May 06 1988 10:07 | 13 |
| DIGITAL Worldwide News LIVE WIRE
Ken Olsen honored by King of Sweden and American Society of Swedish Engineers
Ken Olsen, president, was awarded the John Ericsson Medal for
outstanding achievement in technology. The medal was presented
to him by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on April 15 at a
ceremony in New York City. This medal is given once every two
years by the American Society of Swedish Engineers to an
individual born in Sweden or of Swedish descent. Ken's mother's
family originally came from Sweden.
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