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2007 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll - Presidential Award

2007 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll - Presidential Award
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Peace Corps Director Ronald Tschetter to Visit CU-Boulder Nov. 29

November 27, 2007

Peace Corps Director Ronald Tschetter will speak to undergraduate business students during a visit to the University of Colorado at Boulder on Thursday, Nov. 29.

Tschetter will speak to students in the "Business Applications for Social Responsibility" class beginning at 3 p.m. in room 102 of the Koelbel Building. Tschetter also will meet with top university officials and lunch with potential and soon-to-depart Peace Corps volunteers as well as Peace Corps alumni during his visit.

Tschetter and his wife, Nancy, served as Peace Corps volunteers in India from 1966 to 1968. He is the third director in the Peace Corps' history to have served as a Peace Corps volunteer.

Prior to becoming Peace Corps director in September 2006, Tschetter was president of the investment firm D.A. Davidson & Co. and for 10 years was president of the Private Client Group for Dain Rauscher. He has won numerous awards for his leadership and community service.

CU-Boulder currently ranks third among all U.S. colleges and universities in the number of its alumni now serving as Peace Corps volunteers with 100. CU-Boulder this year became the sixth university in the nation to surpass 2,000 in the number of graduates who have served as Peace Corps volunteers, with a total of 2,052 since the organization was founded in 1961.

For more information call Peter Simons, (303) 492-1962 or call Peter Caughey in the CU-Boulder Office of News Services at (303) 492-4007.

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