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Mark and Lori Halverson-Wente
Mark and Lori Halverson-Wente will discuss their service trip to Cambodia during a lecture Oct. 20 in Rochester./Submitted photo
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10/13/2010
By Laura HorihanThe Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN
| Service trip To learn more about the service trip to Cambodia, visit the Cambodia Service Trip website and send an e-mail regarding your interest to lori.halverson@roch.edu. | ||
Rochester Community and Technical College speech instructor Lori Halverson-Wente's first visit to Cambodia happened by accident about six years ago.She had walked into RCTC president Don Supalla's office to ask about a letter of reference for a position teaching abroad just as another employee, Kim Sin, was walking out.
Supalla had just approved Sin's request to bring an RCTC faculty member and an administrator to Cambodia as guests of the Cambodian government and a college there.
"We asked if we could become involved as a family and the college supported the idea," Halverson-Wente said.
Since that initial conversation, Sin and Halverson-Wente have arranged yearly trips to Cambodia for students. This will be their sixth year.
Halverson-Wente's husband, Mark, an adjunct political science instructor at RCTC, has also visited the country but does a lot of his research on U.S. soil.
The Dodge Center couple will be presenting "Global Gender Issues: Multiculturalism and Human Rights from the the Cambodian Perspective — Is there a Tension?" Oct. 20 in Rochester.
To read more about the upcoming service trip to Cambodia and how you can help, check out Wednesday's edition of the Post-Bulletin.
Laura Horihan covers news in Olmsted, Fillmore, Dodge and Houston counties. She can be reached at (507) 285-7619.
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