Description:Chapters: Mark Evans Austad, Marilyn Ware, Barbara Barrett, Val Peterson, Rozanne L. Ridgway, James Goodby. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mark Evans Austad (April 1, 1917 October 20, 1988), was an American radio and television commentator in Washington D.C. (under the name Mark Evans), and served under the Ford administration as United States Ambassador to Finland in 1975 to 1977 and under the Reagan administration as United States Ambassador to Norway from 1981 to 1984. Austad was born Marcus Jacob Austad in Ogden, Utah to Norwegian immigrant parents, Jacob L. and Signa Anderson Austad. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and served a three-year mission to Finland and Norway from 1936 to 1939. From 1939 to 1941, he attended Weber College in Ogden where he was student body president and active in public speaking, in which he won first place in national competitions. Austad married the former Lola Brown in 1942 and they had three daughters. Throughout his life Austad was active in the LDS Church, and in addition to his missionary service he was also a Sunday School teacher in the 1970s in Washington D.C. and was ordained as a High Priest. Austad passed up law school for an opportunity to work in radio as an announcer with KSL in Salt Lake City in 1941. He was soon drafted into the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps for service during World War II. To treat a pre-existing knee injury, he was sent to Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington D.C., where he was also assigned to the hospital's public address system referred to as WRGH. Among his duties was hosting a weekly program with prominent Washington personalities, such as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In late 1942 Austad also worked part-time for WWD...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1547722We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with United States Ambassadors to Finland: Mark Evans Austad, Marilyn Ware, Barbara Barrett, Val Peterson, Rozanne L. Ridgway, James Goodby. To get started finding United States Ambassadors to Finland: Mark Evans Austad, Marilyn Ware, Barbara Barrett, Val Peterson, Rozanne L. Ridgway, James Goodby, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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30
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Books LLC
Release
2010
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1157167020
United States Ambassadors to Finland: Mark Evans Austad, Marilyn Ware, Barbara Barrett, Val Peterson, Rozanne L. Ridgway, James Goodby
Description: Chapters: Mark Evans Austad, Marilyn Ware, Barbara Barrett, Val Peterson, Rozanne L. Ridgway, James Goodby. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mark Evans Austad (April 1, 1917 October 20, 1988), was an American radio and television commentator in Washington D.C. (under the name Mark Evans), and served under the Ford administration as United States Ambassador to Finland in 1975 to 1977 and under the Reagan administration as United States Ambassador to Norway from 1981 to 1984. Austad was born Marcus Jacob Austad in Ogden, Utah to Norwegian immigrant parents, Jacob L. and Signa Anderson Austad. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and served a three-year mission to Finland and Norway from 1936 to 1939. From 1939 to 1941, he attended Weber College in Ogden where he was student body president and active in public speaking, in which he won first place in national competitions. Austad married the former Lola Brown in 1942 and they had three daughters. Throughout his life Austad was active in the LDS Church, and in addition to his missionary service he was also a Sunday School teacher in the 1970s in Washington D.C. and was ordained as a High Priest. Austad passed up law school for an opportunity to work in radio as an announcer with KSL in Salt Lake City in 1941. He was soon drafted into the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps for service during World War II. To treat a pre-existing knee injury, he was sent to Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington D.C., where he was also assigned to the hospital's public address system referred to as WRGH. Among his duties was hosting a weekly program with prominent Washington personalities, such as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In late 1942 Austad also worked part-time for WWD...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1547722We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with United States Ambassadors to Finland: Mark Evans Austad, Marilyn Ware, Barbara Barrett, Val Peterson, Rozanne L. Ridgway, James Goodby. To get started finding United States Ambassadors to Finland: Mark Evans Austad, Marilyn Ware, Barbara Barrett, Val Peterson, Rozanne L. Ridgway, James Goodby, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.