Greetings from Ozzie!
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Hi there! You have found the official Web site of Ozzie Tollefson, educator, video director and producer of educational assembly programs serving elementary schools in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New York. For detailed information on all of Ozzie's shows, click on
www.ozziealive.com
This Web site was opened on April 2, 2006, and will be under construction for the next two months.
When completed, we will have a complete biography of Ozzie, plus more details on his assembly programs and video productions. We hope you will become a frequent visitor of Ozzie's blog, where he will provide current information on all his activities.
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Who the heck is Ozzie?
Ozzie Tollefson has been in education for 46 years...15 years as a classroom teacher and 31 years as an educational assembly presenter. He has given over 6500 performances in 1600 schools in 17 states plus Bermuda and Norway. About two million students have seen Ozzie's performances.
Born the last of eleven children on a small farm in northern Minnesota, he has enjoyed a remarkable career in education. In 1997 he received the Outstanding Alumni Award from Bemidji State University, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in theater and English.
http://www.bsualumni.org/profiles_academic/97/Oscar_Tollefson.html
Upon graduation in 1960, Ozzie came east and took a teaching assignment at Bound Brook High School in New Jersey. In the next four years he directed plays by Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Thornton Wilder and Eugene O'Neill. Several of his students went on to achieve extraordinary success in theater and film.
Ozzie also taught for 11 years in the Bridgewater-Raritan School district and continued to direct stage productions. Many of them were original scripts written by his students.
In October of 1975, Ozzie launched his assembly program business, Ozzie Alive, Inc. Over the next thirty-one years he created educational shows on colonial life, dinosaurs, whales, Native Americans, inventors, wilderness, Hawaii, Australia and diversity.
Ozzie has three grown sons and two grandsons. He lives on a farm in Central Pennsylvania near the town of Hegins.
In recent years he has ventured into video production. He has written and directed two feature length movies using community actors. He has also written and directed three stage productions as fund-raisers for Friedens Lutheran Church.
This August 26th, Ozzie will be 70 years old. People who know him are amazed at his energy and ability to still hold an audience of 400 elementary students in the palm of his hand for an hour presentation.
If you invite him to your school, your students will meet a remarkable educator and a fun guy to be around.
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