HON. ROLAND OLZARK

I didn't title this post with a "Lex Fugit" as Judge Olzark is still with us.  He became a licensed attorney in Michigan in 1954, and enjoyed a long career as a Wayne County Circuit Judge and, additionally as a visiting judge in many Michigan courts.

In addition to this website, I am admin of a Facebook group called "I Went to Catholic School in Metro Detroit", where our members post about Detroit area Catholic schools past and present.

So, this post is something of a "crossover" piece, kind of like when the Jetsons visited the Flintstones, Green Acres met Petticoat Junction, or something.

While doing some research for that group, I was looking through the 1944 and 1945 editions of the Detroit Catholic Central Shamrock yearbook.  Roland Olzark graduated from CC in 1945.

In the 1944 yearbook, I came across an article and pictures about a student musical production called, "At the Stage Door Canteen".  And, who do I see doing a solo, but Seaman First Class (and Junior class member), Roland Olzark!  The picture is cropped from a page that had another picture above, with both captions below.

Also, that same year, Mr. Olzark was Featherweight boxing champion, pictured at the top of the post.

During his Senior year, he played on the football team that played Boystown in the first Boys Bowl at Briggs Stadium before a crowd of a crowd of 43,539-for a high school football game, yet. Roland is fifth from the right in the middle row.

Judge Olzark has remained involved as a CC alum.  Here he is pictured at a 2009 meeting of the CC Shamrock Bar Association, with Catholic Central's legendary Fr. Richard Elmer.  At one of our later meetings, it was my honor, as chairman of the Shamrock Bar, to present Judge Olzark with the Judge Richard Hathaway Distinguished Lawyer Award.