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Olguin -- Manuel Philip Olguin, 83, passed away peacefully on Friday, May 22, 1998, at home in Albuquerque. Mr. Olguin was born on August 23, 1914 in Albuquerque, where he lived most of his life. From the University of New Mexico, he received his B.A. in Math and Science (1939), and his M.A. in School Administration and Statistics (1954). He completed additional graduate studies under Naval Cognizance at Texas A&M, Treasure Island Naval, M.I.T., and Princeton University (specializing in Elementary Electricity and Radio Material, Ship to Shore Radar, Loran Studies, and Development and Propagation Theory). Mr. Olguin also took Doctoral Studies at Colorado State Teachers' College in Greeley, CO, where he majored in School Administration and Higher Learning. He devoted more than 40 years to New Mexico education. He was a high school instructor at Taos, Los Lunas, and Albuquerque public schools; and engineering recorder and aide for the Emergency War-Mapping Project at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service; spent four years in naval service during World War II where he resigned as Lieutenant (J.G.) Electronic Specialist; a college instructor at the University of Albuquerque (College of St. Joseph); high school principal at Bernalillo High School; a special agent for Business Men's Assurance; Superintendent of Schools, Bernalillo Board of Education; Researcher for the National Science Foundation Radiation Biology Institute, UNM; engineering researcher at the Atomic Energy Commission, Sandia Corporation; group leader for the National Education Association Overseas Teach Corps through the Agency for International Development (posts in the Dominican Republic as Associate Professor/Educational Specialist in Science, and San Salvador as Science and Curriculum Advisor); Head of the Math and Physical Science Department at Rio Grande High School; Assistant Director of Employee Services, as well as Director of Employee-Services for Albuquerque Public Schools; and before retiring in 1994, as Consultant for Retiree and Elderly Benefits for the New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union. Mr. Olguin was a member of the New Mexico School Administrators Association, Board of Directors of the Albuquerque Public Schools Federal Credit Union, Phi Delta Kappa (education honorary), Kappa Mu Epsilon (mathematics honorary), Phi Kappa Phi (freshman honor roll), Governing Board of the Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute, New Mexico Association of Educational Retirees, Albuquerque Association of Educational Retirees, and the American Legion. He was a model of sacrifice and caring and will be greatly missed by his loving family. He is survived by his beloved wife of 53 years, Angela (Lisha), retired principal of Raymond Gabaldon Elementary School in Los Lunas; children, Carol Olguin Ochoa and husband, William of Mexico City, Jane Olguin Hruska and husband, Lee of Annapolis, MD, John Olguin and wife, Linda of Rockville, MD, Lawrence Olguin and wife, Sheila of Richland, WA, Margaret Olguin Abbate and husband, James of Denver, CO, and Ann Olguin Weatherson and husband, James of Grapevine, TX; 11 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; sisters, Julia Trujillo and Denny Olguin, both of Salida, CO; and son-in-law, William Robinson of Orange, CA. He was preceded in heaven by his eldest Hita, Alicia Olguin Robinson. Rosary will be recited Monday, 7:00 p.m., at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 1818 Coal Place SE. Funeral Mass will be celebrated Tuesday, 9:30 a.m., at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. Private interment will follow at the Santa Fe National Cemetery. Pallbearers will be his sons, John and Larry Olguin; and sons-in-law, William Ochoa, Lee Hruska, James Abbate and James Weatherson. French Mortuary, 1111 University Blvd. NE.
        Published on: Mon May 25, 1998