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Show ON FOREIGN ASSIGNMENT. Dr. and Mrs. Rondo A. Christensen will join Utah State University's advisory team in Bolivia in July. The Christensen family will spend two years there. Shown are Dr. Christensen, Craig, Eric, Lane, Lisa and Mrs. Christensen, Christen-sen, left to right. Dr. Rondo A. Christensen family leaves July Fourth for assignment in Bolivia I Dr. Rondo A. Christensen will join Utah State University's Univer-sity's team in Bolivia in July. Dr. Christensen, associate professor of agricultural econ- ' omics at USU, will leave Logan Lo-gan with his family July 4 to begin a two-year term as Rural Development and Hu- mst'n Resources Division of the . U. S. Agency for International Development. 1 His work will be to help 1 develop new markets, both domestic and export, for Bol-ivian Bol-ivian agricultural products, according to Dr. J. Clark Ballard, Bal-lard, director of international programs at USU. I Special emphasis will be 1 given to increasing the flow to market of wool, hair, lamb and mutton from the Altiplano region and high valleys and of wheat and meat products from the lower valleys of Bolivia. Bol-ivia. Dr. Christensen was born at Oasis and .reared at Delta,, a son of Mrs. Alma J. Christensen, Christen-sen, now of Orem, and the late Mr. Christensen. He is a graduate of Delta High School and College of Southern Utah. He received his bachelors degree de-gree in agricultural economics at Utah State and masters and doctors degrees in marketing market-ing and business management manage-ment at Cornell University. He joined the USU faculty in 1957, was agricultural economist econo-mist for the Bank of America for a time in 1963 and 1964, and returned to Utah State in March, 1964. Mrs. Christensen is the former Jeanine Lunt, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lanell Lunt, Cedar City. They are parents of four children, Craig, 15, Eric, 11, Lisa, 6, and Lane, 2. |