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By Michael Leppert
Passports is one of the oldest and most-experienced educational travel companies in the United States. Its founder, Dr. Gilbert Scott Markle, is generally regarded as having created the out-bound American student travel industry in the mid-1960s with the seminal company American Leadership Study Groups. Markle, a former Fulbright scholar and Yale PhD, was teaching philosophy at the time at Clark University, in Massachusetts. ALSG grew rapidly, and was soon sponsoring the overseas travel of thousands of high school and college students, and their teachers.
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