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Show "COMMUNICATIONS USA" Lawrence Maxwell to Participate In Exchange Exhibit in Russia "Communications USA," is the title of an extensive exhibit that will tour the Soviet Union this year and which a Cedar City man has been assigned as an interpreter and guide. Lawrence R. Maxwell, Group Supervising Service foreman for the Mountain States Telephone Co. in southern Utah, has been selected, based on his knowledge of the communications industry and his extensive training in the Russian language, to become a member of a 40-man team that will accompany the exhibit to the Soviet Union this summer. Maxwell will leave June 20 for Washington, D. C, where he will undergo an extensive three weeks' training program with the U. S. Information Agency. From Washington he is scheduled sched-uled to leave for the Soviet Union Un-ion on July 11 arriving in Moscow Mos-cow on July 13. The exhibit will be erected in Moscow where it is scheduled to open July 23. From Moscow the exhibit, which covers a total area of 15,000 square feet and which runs the gamut of communications, communi-cations, including television, radio, ra-dio, telephones, data transmission transmis-sion equipment, computors, etc.; will be dismantled and reconstructed recon-structed in the Russian cities of Kiev and Leningrad. The exhibit is scheduled for approximately one month at each of the three important Russian Rus-sian cities. The exhibit is a part of the cultural exchange agreement of 1959 between the United States and the Soviet Union. It is the sixth such exhibit that has been taken to Russia. Other exhibits have toured the Soviet Union in such areas as medicine, graphic gra-phic arts, and plastics. Maxwell is scheduled to return to the United States some time in December of this year. Maxwell has been affiliated witl. the Mountain States Telephone Tele-phone system since June 19G0. He began in Salt Lake City in the plant department and remained re-mained their until accepting his assignment in Cedar City on September Sep-tember 1, 1963. He is married to the former Barbara Brierley of Salt Lake City and they are the parents of six children. Mrs. Maxwell and the children will remain in Cedar Ce-dar City. In addition to his background in communications he has also had extensive training in the Russian Language. While in the Armed Forces he attended the Army Language school at Monterey, Mon-terey, Calif. It was an extensive 46-week course consisting of six hours of class work daily plus three hours of additional study. Following his release from the service he took additional study courses in the language at the University of Utah. He has taught the language at the Indian In-dian Hills Elementary School in northern Utah for three'months and taught private and semi-private semi-private lessons In the Salt Lake (City area. I In his capacity as a guide he will be expected to interpret and to answer questions of those visiting vi-siting the exhibit during its ex-, tensive tour in the Soviet Union. ; LAWRENCE MAXWELL iv7 MiJfWk mb- THE MAXWELL FAMILY. Comparatively Comparative-ly new resident of Cedar City, Lawrence Maxwell will accompany a communications communica-tions exhibit to Russia. Members of the family are shown here. They are, left to right: James, Cherie, Mrs. Maxwell (Barbara), Mary Ann, Lawrence, Mr. Lawrence, Ray and David. |