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of Spanish and his interest in international conservation problems were extremely useful at that time, 

 especially when he served as special assistant to the U.S. CITES delegation at the 1985 meeting in 

 Buenos Aires. 



In 1986 Jorgenson was accepted into the doctoral program at the University of Florida, where 

 his interest in subsistence hunting by indigenous peoples developed. During his field research, 

 Jorgenson lived for two years in a Maya Indian community in southeastern Mexico. In addition to the 

 research, Jorgenson became the village typist, pawn broker, photographer, and ambulance service. 

 Prior to leaving Mexico, he and his wife became the godparents of a young Maya girl, Nora Rubf Foot 

 Uc. Upon his graduation from the University of Florida, Jorgenson would like to continue working in 

 Latin America, conducting research that will be useful in solving critically important conservation 

 problems in tlie Neotropics. 



