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From: Jerry Cohen <rjcohen@li.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 05:45:56 -0400
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:10:11 -0500
Subject: Worldbook Encyclopedia on Jimmy Carter


Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States

Source: World Book Encyclopedia, p. 188/188a, Vol. 3, 1997

Education:
Jimmy went to public school in Plains. (Georgia) He shared his
mother's love of reading and received good grades. A schoolmate
later remembered that Jimmy "was always the smartest in the
class." The boy's favorite subjects included history,
literature, and music. As a teen-ager, he played on the high
school basketball team.

In 1941, following graduation from high school, Carter entered
Georgia Southwestern College in nearby Americus. In 1942, a
boyhood dream came true when he received an appointment to the
United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. "Even as a grammar
school child, I read books about the Navy and Annapolis," Carter
recalled. However, he lacked the mathematics courses required
for admission to the academy and enrolled at Georgia Institute
of Technology to fulfill this requirement. Carter entered the
academy in 1943. He did especially well in electronics, gunnery,
and naval tactics and graduated in 1946, ranking 59th in a class
of 820.

Naval Career:
Carter spent his first two years in the Navy chiefly as an
electronics instructor. He served first on the U.S.S. Wyoming
and later on the U.S.S. Mississippi. These battleships were
being used to test new equipment. Near the end of his period on
the Mississippi, Carter volunteered for submarine duty. He
graduated from submarine-training school in December 1948,
making third in a class of 52. Carter was then assigned to the
submarine U.S.S. Pomfret and, in 1950, to the U.S.S. K-1, a
submarine designed for antisubmarine warfare.

In 1952, Carter joined a select group of officers who were
developing the world's first nuclear-powered submarines. He
became engineering officer of the nuclear submarine Sea Wolf.
Carter served under Captain Hyman G. Rickover, who pioneered the
nuclear project. Carter later wrote that Rickover "had a
profound effect on my life--perhaps more than anyone except my
own parents . . . He expected the maximum from us, but he always
contributed more."