The Icelandic Canadian - 01.06.1961, Blaðsíða 31

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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ment of Canada was expressed in a
Minute of Council and of the people
of Canada by a resolution of parli-
ament.
He ds the author of twenty-six books,
all but one devoted to some aspect of
Arctic life, and his articles for scien-
tific and other journals number about
four hundred. His library, now at Dart-
mouth College, was .at the time of its
transference the largest private Arctic
library in the world. With headquar-
ters in New York during most of the
time since his return from the North,
and latterly at Dartmouth, where he is
Consultant to the Program of Nor-
thern Studies, Stefansson has been the
unofficial Ambassador of the North.
By courtesy of
The Canadian Geographical Journal
Goes to Iran as Economic Adviser
Luther Burbank Kristjanson
Luther Burbank Kristjanson, son of
Mrs. Elin and the late Hannes Krist-
janson of Gimli, and nephew of Rev.
Albert Kristjanson, has been appoint-
ed a member of an advisory group
supplied to Iran by Harvard Univer-
sity.
Mr. Kristjanson is at present assistant
deputy minister of agriculture with the
Manitoba Government. Pie leaves for
Iran on June 22nd on a fourteen
month leave of absence.
He secured his high school educa-
tion at Gimli, then a bachelor’s degree
from the North Dakota State univer-
sity, a master’s thesis for a doctorate
from the University of Wisconsin,
Mrs. Kristjanson, the former Farrida
Fallah, who, with their two children,
Sharon 5, and Kevan 3, will accompany
her husband to Iran, was born in Iran,
went to school there, and with her fam-
ily travelled around the country.
Thirteen years ago she came to the
United States, got her bachelor of edu-
cation degree from the Missouri State
Teachers’ College, and majored in
political science at the University of
Nebraska, where she met her husband.
After her marriage she did some social
work in Saskatoon where her husband
was stationed with the Canadian
Department of Agriculture. She also
did social work in Ottawa and in St.
Boniface.