Olga Gaydos
Olga Gaydos
interviewed by Jeanette E. Tuve
September 18, 1986
as part of the
Ethnic Women of Cleveland
Oral History Project Series
Olga Gaydos is the mother of two daughters and a son, as well as a talented dancer and dance teacher to many - including the actors and actresses in the 1978 film "The Deer Hunter", which was filmed at St. Theodosius cathedral, her home parish.
She became the director of the St. Theodosius Folk Dancers in 1960, and was the subject of an article in the Cleveland Press in December 1977.
For Further from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:
This is one of a series of interviews conducted by Jeanette E. Tuve in 1986 as part of the Ethnic Women of Cleveland Oral History Project at the Cleveland State University. Originally sponsored by the CSU Women's Comprehensive Program and the History Department, and funded by the George Gund Foundation, Cleveland Memory has now digitized these fascinating interview transcripts and recordings to allow you to read the transcripts online while listening to streaming audio recordings of the interviews.