Spring 2007

Guadalajara Study Abroad

His mother Amy grew up in Chihuahua and met Valentine's father Lee in Buenos Aires in 1935.  Valentine was born six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Valentine's parents took him to Mexico as a child and later Argentina where he grew up under Juan Perón and had a parrot named Chiquita. Valentine's parents and grandfather W. Ernest Young taught Spanish at BYU many years ago.

After high school in Provo and active duty in the Army (reserves), Valentine returned to Argentina as a missionary, later earned degrees in Spanish and Latin American studies at BYU while employed at the LTM, now MTC. Awarded a generous fellowship, Valentine earned a doctorate in Romance Languages at Duke University (1976). 

After teaching all kinds of Spanish courses at Duke, St. Andrews Presbyterian College and the University of Nebraska, Valentine chose to market US products and services around the world for two decades.

In 1997, Valentine's wife Shauna insisted that he stay home to keep her company, which he did, by selling real estate in Lincoln, teaching global marketing at Creighton University and international management and other business courses at the University of Nebraska.

The Valentines lived in the same brick house in Lincoln, Nebraska for nearly three decades to raise Christopher, Lisa, Gina, James (Maroon5 Grammy winner) and Amanda in a stable environment. Three graduated from BYU, the youngest two from the University of Nebraska. 

Bob and Shauna Valentine moved to Highland, Utah in 2004 to be near their grandkids.  Shauna works in the McKay College of Education and Bob teaches real estate at Utah Valley State College and Spanish at Brigham Young University.  Bob led the 2007 Guadalajara Study Abroad program.  Check it out on www.byuguadalajara.blogspot.com.  For the latest news on the Valentine family, go to www.robertshaunavalentine.blogspot.com.