By CORTNEY PETERSEN
Reconciliation is the topic of Tuesday’s Devotional at 11 a.m. in the JSB Auditorium.
Robert Blair, a retired professor of the Linguistics Department, said he will use “scriptural and literary accounts to show the reconciliation process that occurs in the lives of men.”
Blair retired last Wednesday after being a faculty member at BYU since 1959. He was the founder of the Linguistics Department at BYU and spent many of his summers in Central and South America directing language-training programs for Peace Corps volunteers in Portuguese, Cakchiquel and Guarani. His work has also led to courses and dictionaries available in the indigenous American languages of Navajo, Maya, Cakchiquel and Guarani.
He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from BYU and a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1964. In 1989 he was named the James L. Barker lecturer in the College of Humanities. He has also taught at Shandong University in China (1980-1981) and Moscow State University in Russia (1992).
Blair served an LDS mission in Finland from 1950 to 1953 and recently returned from serving as the mission president over the Baltic States Mission. He and his wife Julie, the parents of eight children, directed the missionary efforts in the areas of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Kaliningrad, Russia from 1993 to 1996.
The Devotional will be broadcast live at 11 a.m. on KBYU-TV (Channel 11) and KBYU-FM (89.1). It will be broadcast live in the Varsity Theatre and 2084 JKHB.
