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Charles Schulz on what makes a good citizen

Charles M Schulz, creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip, sitting in his studio in 1978. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

In 1970, the students in a fifth-grade class in Beverly Hills were tasked by their teacher to write to someone they admired and ask, “What makes a good citizen?" One of the kids, 10-year-old Joel Lipton, directed the question a…