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Hello I'm Curt Simic president emeritus of the foundation during my twenty years in that
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role I had the wonderful experience of spending my time with people who were simply trying
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to do something good for somebody else and in most cases people they never knew in Mr
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Ed Hutton's case it was for students at IU Ed was generous and thoughtful man he grew
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up in very humble circumstances in Bedford Indiana but he won a scholarship to IU to
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study in the business school where he had great success at that and when he finished
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he was drafted into the army because it occurred right at the end of World War two He was sent
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to Europe Germany specifically and his job was to gather materials that could be used
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to rebuild Europe after the bombing and all the all the scars of war occurred well he
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was having that experience he realized that he was a small town Indiana kid and he became
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a world citizen almost without his permission and he realized that there were thousands
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of small town kids in the state of Indiana that needed to have some exposure to the larger
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world so he decided that he would make a gift to the university and the income from that
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gift would be used to give students a stipend to encourage them to go overseas and again
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become world citizens Well he did that and he had great success at it and he also had
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the pleasure of students coming back to IU and telling him all about their experience
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and how transformational it was for him. As a result of that gift the university decided
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they would name the Honors College The Hutton Honors College and so the morning after that
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ceremony took place we were driving up to the Honors College headquarters which is two
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little houses on the corner of Seventh and Eagleson and he said you know Kurt if it's going
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to have my name on it I'd really rather have a nicer building that would be more inviting
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to the students so Mr. Hutton decided to to pay for the building that we now have at the
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corner of Seventh and Woodlawn of beautiful home for the college when I think of the Ed
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I think of these eight words everywhere we look caring hands have preceded us everywhere
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we look caring hands have preceded us Mr Houghton's Caring Hands have helped to open the world
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to thousands of students and there's no end to the gift.
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There are times that become recognized as defining moments for the world such a time
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was without doubt the end of World War two And for a young man from Bedford Indiana Edward
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Hutton the end of the war became a personal defining moment as well one that would ultimately
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lead to one of the most distinguished business careers in America at W.R. Grace company and
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as the chief executive officer of Chemed Corp in fact Edward Hutton has often said his experience
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serving in the occupational government's Office of trade in Germany following World War two
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was the key to his development as a person and as a successful businessman yet his success
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in business had roots that stretch back to Indiana and the Great Depression
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Well Bedford Indiana was a limestone city just like Bloomington Indiana
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hit probably than any city in the state I know we had the longest relief rolls in the
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States. I was always a hustler in the time of eight
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or nine years old I had a job peddling papers around the square in Bedford and I washed
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dogs the lawns and hauled coal and dumped it in the basement of one of my neighbors
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and using a wheelbarrow and put out a garden in a rather large garden all by myself and
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and I fish not for pleasure but I had crop lines down on the river four hundred hooks
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on them I ran em. I'm twenty four hours a day all summer long I fed the whole neighborhood.
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Edward Hutton worked through its high school years and also proved to be an outstanding
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student. I was elected vice president my class president
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my senior class and at the senior ceremonies I got a lot of awards which I expected but
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I didn't expect to get a county scholarship to IU sometimes in life good things happen
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to you that you don't plan for their I had it and I didn't apply for I hadn't even had
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time to think about it at Indiana University Edward Hutton enjoyed his coursework and proved
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once again to be an outstanding student and toward the end of his time at IU he was presented
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with an opportunity which he accepted but only reluctantly.
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That's when Dean Weimer twisted my arm one day and urged me almost commanded me to take
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a four hour civil service examination. I rebelled I said I don't four hours on a
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Saturday afternoon why I don't want to work for the government
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You don't know that he said. That's very good advice you'd say that to
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a lot of young people you don't know that just wait and see Take it take take it from
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me get yourself a prepared you don't want to might happen
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Have probably saved my life actually turned down.
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I was I took the exam and I guess I did all right they sent me a postcard saying you are
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now qualified to be junior professional economists. Edward Hutton didn't immediately follow up
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messages in the mail One was a letter from the draft board saying wasn't a letters it
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was a post card and at that time they where letters postcard telling me come in the following
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Monday for a physical I thought well that's it that's what I've been waiting for the there
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one of the telegram I couldn't believe it is from the present United States it said
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it was addressed present of the united states comma Office of Emergency Management It was
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a very flowery telegram it said were a hiring great number of people executives across the
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country were gearing up for the war economy that lies ahead but I looked up the name of
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the chairman of Bloomington draft board and found out where he lived and walked over to
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his house he fortunately was home if he was away on a vacation he didn't own a vacation
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and I couldn't reach him it changed my life totally because once I was drafted the government
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would never try to hire me away he was sitting on the front porch and I walked up and said
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Sir I've got a problem I have two communications I got today in the mail and here they are
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would you read them please and tell me what I should do he read them it took him about
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ten seconds and he said literally he said Hell son if they need you that badly down
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in Washington you send them a telegram today telling them you're coming and as for the
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draft notice or give it to me I'll take care that he tore it up now let's that's really
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a defining moment that's because I took an exam the year before which I didn't want to
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take preparing myself and I call that luck is amazing coincidence those two things would
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come together now I'm in Washington is forty one mass confusion we all knew there was a
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war coming we didn't know when and people were being hired there were no offices for
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people my office was in a brand new apartment building which had not been finished hundreds
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of carpenters running around obviously no desk no offices nothing I was told by the
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personnel director go sightseeing for a week or two don't call us we'll call you when we
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are ready to put you to work. Oh I didn't wait I did that for two or three
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days and thought oh hell I came down here to work there must be something I can do in
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this confusion So I went to see the director personnel for
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the total Office of Emergency Manager I walked in said I'd like a job doing something I'm
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waiting to be called a and he said Well I You're just a guy I'm looking for I need an
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assistant for ninety days he said first of all and I give you a raise right now twenty
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six hundred dollars for showing some initiative is only I mean I?d been there a week boy it's
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going to be easy getting I have this government Edward Hutton soon enlisted in the Army and
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when the war ended he volunteered for service in Europe with the occupation forces I got
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on the plane for the first time in my life left the country for the first time in my 09:35 life and ended up in Paris Hurst Germany Berlin. Again mass confusion just like there was had
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been in Washington you know when there's mass confusion like that there's a lot of opportunity
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around for a somebody takes initiative again they told me the same story get lost and go
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sight seeing we'll call you when we got a place for you and that I walked up and down
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the halls of the I found a sign that I liked it said economic intelligence God that sounds
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fantastic for a kid from southern Indiana. It said
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And it was the director's name was that of the dean of the School of Business here in
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the in the east forgot which school it was I walked in and said I like to go to work
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and he said You're just the guy you're looking for so I became his staff of one and he sent
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me down to what we called an intelligence collection center down in the middle of Germany
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and there I interviewed German government officials and who had handled Germany's foreign
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trade from his initial work interviewing German officers Edward Hutton gained an in-depth
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knowledge of German trade and soon began running import and export operations for Germany I
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had a work ethic that wouldn't stop I worked every day long hours Saturdays three or four
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hours on Sunday you do that to a certain extent to make an impression on everybody but you
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also in my case I just felt I was obligation if I was going to be in Germany and away from
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my family it was up to me to work and learn something and it really paid off in a big
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way following the war Edward Hutton seized many opportunities putting his expertise in
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important and export business to work and played a major role in reshaping the W.R.
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Grace company for post from war recess and through his experiences in post-war Germany
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through his distinguished career in international business Edward Hutton has come to recognize
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the value of a global outlook in both business and culture through the years his unwavering
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support of Indiana University has earned him the respect and admiration of many in the
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IU community accordingly in the fall of two thousand and four the IU Honors College was
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renamed Indiana University and the Indiana University Foundation gratefully acknowledge
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the vision and contributions of Edward L. Hutton his advocacy on behalf of higher education
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makes him a exemplar of stewardship and commitment in honor of his continuing support of the
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honors college will here after be known as the Edward L Hutton Honors college at Indiana
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University Bloomington because of his desire to promote international understanding Edward
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L Hutton has left a gift that not only benefits IU students but also helps many people all
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over the world the Edward L Hutton international experiences program was established to enable
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Indiana University students to expand their outlook by pursuing academic service internship
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or research opportunities the world over the program provides an invaluable opportunity
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for IU students to develop a global view of an ever changing world.
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My name is Shahin Saberi I'm studying neuroscience biology and Spanish originally from Fishers
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Indiana I was born and raised in Indiana so I went to Alicante Spain and I also travel
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to a variety of locations in Spain like San Sebastian, Seville, and Toledo.
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One of the greatest parts of being abroad is not just from a specific program that your
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in academics wise internship wise but just the people being able to interact with people
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who you wouldn't be able to interact with back home you learn so much being able to
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empathize with people who come from different countries and being able to interact with
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them on a more compassionate level I really found love with Hispanic culture and I take
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that back home I change my Spanish minor to Spanish major specifically in majoring in
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Hispanic studies so I would say kind of confirm the fact that I want to go into health policy
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because I have always spent my life thinking out how to affect the change for the most
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amount of people possible and I find that from the top down level through policymaking
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I could do that and the program allowed me to learn in gain an international health care
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perspective which is one of the most common ways of studying health care systems as and
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to learn how to best modify the one that back home to make it fit the population is though
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studying international health care systems and this program offered me the opportunity
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and I definitely plan on taking that into the future in my career I was abroad in London
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England for the year for my entire junior year and it's just an entirely different social
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experience the way that people in England socialize is very different here and it's
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really cool to be a part of it for a while and to get to know those people having any
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time internationally abroad is really important to an individual just like personally to grow
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up and to realize the world is bigger than they actually understand I think definitely
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changes the way that I walk through my life today I'm still trying to figure out how to
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be an adult but I think being a abroad did help with that So my name is Jonathan Van
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Hecke I'm a senior and my major is in French and finance two different programs Kelly and
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college of art and sciences so last fall was in Milan Italy on an exchange program from
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the Kelly school of business the university was Boccioni university and they have a lot
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of museums like a lot of museums and collections so I did that a lot I went to churches being
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among so much art and esthetic beauty packed in weekend after weekend after weekend made
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me realize that that was something that I would want I want to work in it and someday
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become a professor and try to share that same feeling with the students making a difference
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through increasing the understanding of people and cultures around the world this is both
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the personal experience and personal vision of Edward Hutton a vision that he is sharing
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with Indiana University students through the international experiences program.
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Young people can work miracles given the opportunity and the tools to work with they can accomplish
