Thomas Olmsted (BAA ’65, MBA ’71) | January 2021
In 1964, after graduating from Western Michigan University, he took part in a one-year accounting program at the University of Florida. He refused to shave his scraggly beard, which made it that much harder to find gainful employment, but finally, after he’d spent seven years in Gainesville, an accounting firm hired him. He worked there for 25 years. | WUFT
Olmsted (BAA 1965, MBA 1971) retired from the accounting industry after 25 years of working at a Gainesville firm. He is an avid collector, with over 100 collections in his possession.
Read more about Olmsted and his collections, from coffee cans to left-handed tools to banana labels, in this story about his unique life from WUFT.
