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    • Luke Air Force Base

    • Luke Air Force Base

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    • Aircraft; Luke Air Force Base

    • Luke Air Force Base was also a major wartime airbase in western Maricopa County. Construction of the base started in March, 1941, just before Thunderbird Field, and it became the biggest training base in the Army Air Corps. Although placed on the...
    • Sign to Southwest Airways

    • Sign to Southwest Airways

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    • Airports; Southwest Airways;

    • A sign with a Thunderbird logo stands in front of the Glendale Lumber Company pointing to the Glendale Airport and Southwest Airways, location of Thunderbird Field I.
    • Falcon Field

    • Falcon Field

    • Markow, Robert

    • World War II; Falcon Field; Southwest Airways; Pilots and pilotage--British; Thunderbird Field II

    • Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona, developed and operated by Southwest Airways, was briefly known as Thunderbird Field II, but was named Falcon Field because it trained most of the British pilots of World War II
    • American Institute for Foreign Trade Founding Administrators

    • American Institute for Foreign Trade Founding Administrators

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    • American Institute for Foreign Trade; Dunne, Finley Peter; Patterson, John; Yount, Barton Kyle

    • Three men who developed the American Institute for Foreign Trade in 1946-47 are shown in this photo (l-r). 1) John Patterson was former Director of the School of Public Affairs of American University and Chief, Division of Inter-American...
    • Entrance Sign to American Institute for Foreign Trade Campus

    • Entrance Sign to American Institute for Foreign Trade Campus

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    • American Institute for Foreign Trade; Schools--Arizona--Glendale; Thunderbird Field I

    • The American Institute for Foreign Trade opened its doors on Oct. 1, 1946, just six months after its founders acquired Thunderbird Field I, the deactivated Army Air Forces Training Base. Because the school received the property from the War Assets...
    • Thunderbird Campus, 1946

    • Thunderbird Campus, 1946
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    • American Institute for Foreign Trade

    • Aerial view of the Thunderbird Campus in 1946 after it became American Institute for Foreign Trade. The dormitories formed the border of the diamond-shaped quadrangle, which held the two swimming pools. the Dining Hall was at the top of the...
    • Entrance, The American Institute for Foreign Trade

    • Entrance, The American Institute for Foreign Trade

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    • American Institute for Foreign Trade; Thunderbird Field I; World War II;

    • Founder's Hall, at the entrance to the AIFT Campus, was the original administration building during World War II when Thunderbird Field I was an Army Air Forces training base. After the base was converted to a school, the building housed the...
    • Faculty Building at AIFT

    • Faculty Building at AIFT

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    • American Institute for Foreign Trade; Thunderbird Field I;

    • When the former airbase was converted into a school of management, its aircraft control tower became the faculty building for the school.
    • Dr. William Lytle Schurz

    • Dr. William Lytle Schurz

    • Rockwell, Charles

    • Schurz, William Lytle; Galleons history; National Geographic magazine; Latin America; American Institute for Foreign Trade; Thunderbird Field I

    • Dr. William Lytle Schurz, noted Latin American scholar and Director of the Department of Area Studies at the American Institute for Foreign Trade, visits with student Charles Rockwell. Schurz was one of the most highly respected faculty in the...
    • AIFT Students

    • AIFT Students

    • Rockwell, Charles

    • Students 1940-1950; South America commerce; American Institute for Foreign Trade; Thunderbird Field I;

    • Because of its proximity to Mexico and Latin America, the early years of Thunderbird (American Institute for Foreign Trade) focused on doing business in that region of the world. Portuguese and Spanish were the only languages taught, and most...
    • First Library at Thunderbird Campus

    • First Library at Thunderbird Campus

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    • Library; American Institute for Foreign Trade; hangar; Thunderbird Field I

    • The first Thunderbird Library was located in a hangar on the east edge of the campus. Librarian Dorothy Burge tells of begging for books from many sources, especially the faculty.
    • Dancers at AIFT

    • Dancers at AIFT

    • Rockwell, Charles

    • Latin America; South America commerce; Dancing; American Insitute for Foreign Trade; Thunderbird Field I

    • Students at American Institute for Foreign Trade not only learned how to do business in a foreign country, but they also learned the culture of Latin American countries. Friday night folk dances were part of the cultural aspect of a Thunderbird...
    • Thunderbird Foreign Language Class

    • Thunderbird Foreign Language Class

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    • Spanish language study and teaching; American Institute for Foreign Trade; Thunderbird Field I.

    • In 1946 Arizona's mild climate attracted students from 45 of the 48 U.S. States who enjoyed occasional foreign language classes held outdoors. Here Carmen Madrigal helps students with their Spanish pronunciation in the shade of a pepper tree.
    • Thunderbird Foreign Language Classroom

    • Thunderbird Foreign Language Classroom

    • Don Herndon, 5342 N. 19th Dr., Phoenix, Arizona, AM 6-9083.

    • Spanish language study and teaching; American Institute for Foreign Trade; Thunderbird Field I;Finney, Lawrence;

    • Professor Larry Finney was not only a faculty member in the Language Department, but he was also an alumnus of the class of 1952 and Alumni Director, appointed in 1960. He is still remembered as one of Thunderbird's best-loved faculty members. ...
    • Thunderbird Activity Center

    • Thunderbird Activity Center

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    • American Graduate School of International Management; buildings; hangars; Thunderbird Field; Thunderbird School of Global Management

    • One former Thunderbird Field hangar was transformed in 1982 to become the Thunderbird Activity Center (TAC) on the Thunderbird School of Global Management Campus. The building that once housed the famous Stearman aircraft was used as a parking...
    • Thunderbird Air Control Tower, Modern Version

    • Thunderbird Air Control Tower, Modern Version

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    • Aircraft control tower; American Graduate School of International Management; Thunderbird; Thunderbird Field;

    • The Thunderbird Tower Building remains the centerpiece of the Thunderbird Campus long after the airbase had been converted to a school. This photo is taken from the garden in front of the Tower Building and features a wrought iron Thunderbird art...
    • AIFT Rodeo Parade Float

    • AIFT Rodeo Parade Float

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    • American Institute for Foreign Trade; Parades & processions 1930 - 1990; Parade floats; Rodeo;

    • American Insitute for Foreign Trade students display their Latin American influence on a float in the annual Rodeo Parade in Phoenix.
    • Crossing the Equator Party

    • Crossing the Equator Party

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    • Parades; Equator; American Institute for Foreign Trade; Neptune;

    • A traditional pre-commencement ceremony at the American Institute for Foreign Trade was an equatorial party at which all the students are indoctrinated -- dunked--prior to their crossing the equator in pursuit of foreign trade careers. In the...
    • Walter Bimson

    • Walter Bimson

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    • Bimson, Walter;

    • Walter Bimson was the speaker at the first AIFT graduation in June, 1947. Bimson, head of the local Valley National Bank, was influential in finding funding and local support for the new school and served on its Board of Directors.

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