The Icelandic Canadian - 01.03.1968, Side 47

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
45
IN THE NEWS
DR. OLSEN OF EDMONTON
APPOINTED F.R.S.C.
Dr. Gordon Benedict Olsen, F.R.C.S.
Dr. Gordon Benedict Olsen, of Ed-
monton, Alberta, was made Fellow of
the Royal College of Surgeons of Can-
ada in January, 1968.
Dr. Olsen was born in Winnipeg
in 1938, the son of Mr. and Mrs. O. B.
Olsen, formerly of Winnipeg and now
of Calgary. He took his secondary
school education in Calgary and re-
ceived his M.D. from the University
of Alberta in 1962. He was Resident
Intern in General Surgery at the Uni-
versity of Alberta Hospital, in Edmon-
ton, 1962 to 1967, and is presently
Teaching Fellow in Surgery at the
Faculty of Medicine, University of Al-
berta.
Dr. Olsen was married to Miss Lorna
Beth Hughes of Calgary in 1951. They
have three children.
Dr. Olsen plans to practice General
Surgery in Kamloops, British Colum-
bia.
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EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
David Jon Thompson, who is a son
of Helga, a daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Jon Tryggvi Bergman, is the
Executive Assistant to Hon. Joe
Greene, the Minister of Agriculture
in the federal government.
The late Jon Tryggvi Bergman was
one of the early building contractors
among the Icelanders in Winnipeg.
The office of the Minister of Agri-
culture is in the Sir John Carling
Building, Ottawa, where David
Thompson can be reached.
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Pharmacist James Thorkelson, of
Winnipeg, is on a CUSO assignment
in Tanzania. Instead of working in
Muhimbili Hospital, he was asked to
teach pharmacy, which he is doing
though a novice, relying heavily on the
teaching instruction he received at the
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