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It was great to host at Thunderbird today the community of Fulbright scholars in Arizona. Individuals from Pakistan to Paraguay, from Ukraine to Uzbekistan, studying anything from neuroscience to medicine to engineering, linguistics or business at any of the three state universities and Thunderbird. It reminded me of my own Fulbright experience almost 18 years ago (ouch!), arriving to Georgia Tech as a brand new graduate student in psychology. Life would never be the same after that!
I was also reminded of Senator Fulbright’s quote:
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
And its parallelism with the founding values of Thunderbird as articulated by our second president, William Schurtz:
Borders frequented by trade seldom need soldiers.
Amen.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Rafah Mango commented on your note “Fulbright in Arizona”:
“It is also an honor for me to be part of that! It was an enjoyable experience and I thank you for hosting it. It was a great opportunity to introduce Thunderbird to the rest of the world. I heard so many comments today from many of the participants whom have either never heard of us or never been to the campus.
I look forward to many more similar events to come.
Best regards,
)”
Rafah Mango
A Fulbright and a T-Bird. (being able to put these two words to my name is a great feeling!