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Blogs didn’t exist when I arrived at Thunderbird in 1966 as the school’s fifth president. Back then we were called the American Institute for Foreign Trade. The name has changed more than once since then, but the school’s mission has remained virtually the same. Thunderbird has stood for decades as a champion of “doing good while doing well.” That’s why I agreed to join this blog community when Kellie approached me recently about sharing my insights on the importance of global citizenship. Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Art Peterson. I am the president who parked his plane behind his house on the airfield (on what was then called “faculty row”).
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