Hall of Fame
In the mid and late thirties, the young Dallas D. Olin was a sports enthusiast at Pasadena College where intercollegiate sports did not exist. Through his influence and a couple other noted individuals like Wes and Harold Reed, Shelburne Brown and Gene Stowe, the first attempt at intercollegiate basketball occurred.
From that time until Olin’s passing, he sustained a passion to see intercollegiate athletics occur at a high level at Pasadena , Point Loma and Point Loma Nazarene College . Few people have ever been as consistent as Olin when it comes to interest in the athletics program.
Olin was always working to increase the financial backing for the Crusader Club. On one occasion he was flown on a private plane to San Jose to meet with a group of individuals in an effort to create a satellite organization of the Crusader Club. Though there was a truly outstanding time of fellowship that day and evening, Olin was frustrated and befuddled that they could not generate a host of enthusiastic, automatic followers of the program even though they were four hundred mile separated from the college.
Olin served three times as the CSA president and numerous more times on the Board of Directors. He served constantly whether on the board or not as one commissioned to sustain efforts in the annual Crusader Club membership drive.
“Dal was very active in First Church of the Nazarene, served as president of the Men’s Fellowship, president of the Del Ray Sunday School class, was president of the Sunrise class and started an organ club at the church,” said Olin’s wife, Orline. “He would see a need and do something about it. Most of all he loved the Lord and gave freely of his money and talents. He tuned all of Pasadena First Church ’s pianos for 35 years without charge.”
The award for Outstanding Achievement by an Athlete was presented to Orline by Jim Bond.
