Contact Information

Office: 3005G JKB

E-mail: ryvalentine@comcast.net

Office Hours:
By Appointment Only

Courses Taught:
Span 339 MWF 10-10:50AM

His mother Amy, born and raised in Mexico, met Valentine's father Lee, a missionary from Utah, in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1935. Valentine was born in 1942, six months after Pearl Harbor. Valentine's parents took him to Mexico (1946, 1950) and later Argentina (1952-1956), where he grew up under Perón’s dictatorship and had a talking parrot named Chiquita. Valentine's parents both taught Spanish at BYU many years ago.

After high school in Provo and US Army Reserve service, Valentine returned to Argentina (1962-1964) as a missionary, later earned degrees in Spanish and Latin American studies at BYU (1968-69) while employed for five years at the LTM, now MTC. Awarded a wonderful fellowship, Valentine earned a doctorate in Romance Languages at Duke University (1976).

After a few years teaching Latin American literature and publishing scholarly articles at Duke, St. Andrews Presbyterian College and the University of Nebraska, Valentine, an extrovert salesperson, sold out to capitalism and marketed US products and services around the world for two decades, but that is another story.

In 1997, Valentine's wife Shauna met him at the airport to inform him that their five kids had grown up and moved away and that it was time to stay home to keep her company, which he did, by selling real estate in Lincoln, teaching global marketing at Creighton University and International Management at Nebraska, among other courses.

Married in 1967, the Valentines lived in the same brick house in Lincoln, Nebraska for 28 years to raise their five of their children (Christopher, Lisa, Gina, James & Amanda) in a stable environment. Their three oldest graduated from BYU, the youngest two from the University of Nebraska.

Bob and Shauna Valentine moved to Highland, Utah in August, 2004 to be near their ten grandkids. Shauna works in the BYU McKay College of Education and Bob teaches real estate pre-licensing courses at Utah Valley State College and Spanish at Brigham Young University.