Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Drs. John Harrington, Jr., and Rebecca Theobald for comments on prior versions of this manuscript.
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1. Haigh’s (Citation1982) publication coincided with Peirce Lewis’s (Citation1983) presidential column in the Association of American Geographers Newsletter, echoing urges for the Association of American Geographers to add geography advocacy to the roles of the organization’s executive director (see Horne Citation1984).
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Thomas B. Larsen
Thomas Larsen is 2024 president of the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE). He serves as Co-Coordinator of the Geographic Alliance of Iowa (GAI) and teaches geography at the University of Northern Iowa.