SFV Bromeliad meeting / Speaker about Travels and plants of Argentina

SFV Bromeliad Society meet at the Sepulveda Garden Center
Monthly Meetings held on the 1st Saturday of each month at 10:00



10:15 Speaker: Nels Christianson (program approx. 45 - 60 minutes)


“Culture and Plants of Northwest Argentina”  


This travelogue program will include digital photos

featuring a variety of plants, mostly Bromeliads, landmarks, landscapes

and towns people. 



 Currently Nels lives in
Santa Monica, CA. USA, and recently retired from the UCLA Medical Center after
after working more than 37 years in the International Relations dept. where he was usually the first contact for an international patient from
Europe, Canada or Latin America. Speaking fluent English, Spanish, Portuguese
with some French and Sign Language is a great asset enabling him to meet and
help people from around the world. 



He has a BA in Political Science and Hispanic Civilization from
UC Santa Barbara.  During the summer of 1972, as a recipient of an NDEA
Title VI scholarship, he studied intensive Portuguese at Georgetown
University.  Nels did graduate work in Latin American Studies at UCLA in
1973-75.  For 18 months he attended classes in Brazilian literature at the
Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in 1976-77 on a
Rotary Foundation scholarship.  Since then he has traveled to Brazil
around 20 times visiting friends, studying the culture and plants. 



Come
visit our meeting; we are a small friendly group.  The San

Fernando Valley Bromeliad Society holds monthly meetings at
the Sepulveda Garden Center.  Speakers feature travel and a variety of
plants.  Visitors are welcome, we serve refreshments, hold
discussions on Show and Tell Plants and we have a dollar plant raffle you
can participate in if you would like.  The meetings are free and so
is parking.