National Park Service to make Jimmy Carter honorary park ranger today
Source: AJC
12:30 p.m. Sunday, April 17, 2016
Plains — He’s been president of the United States, won a Nobel Peace Prize, and is still a pretty good pull-no-punches- political pundit .
Now Jimmy Carter is about to add something else unique to his resume:
Honorary national park ranger
National Park Service director Jonathan B. Jarvis will bestow the title — and the iconic Ranger’s hat that goes with it — on Carter here this afternoon. The ceremony will take place in the auditorium of the old Plains High School, now the visitors center and museum of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, which the park service operates.
As president, Carter created 39 different National Park Service units, ranging from the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta, to the Women’s Rights and the War in the Pacific National Historic Parks located in Seneca, N.Y, and Guam, respectively.
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Congrats to President Carter! 
including creating new NPS sites. Glad he's clear from the recent cancer treatment which has affected so many relatively young members of his family. At a college hall I saw him debate Ford; in Dec. 1980 just after the election defeat to Raygun we saw him and his group come into a theater where we were, for a performance of the play 'Amadeus'; and last time c. 2006 at a book signing tribute to his mother Miss Lillian. Intelligent, kind person he is with clear, light blue eyes and that famous smile.
NPS staffers I've known are very dedicated, hold advanced degrees, are even natured and excellent educators as needed to serve the public. They work very hard for the Service which has been under pressure from cutbacks and federal budget shutdowns for many years. Once at the Frederick Douglass historic home "Cedar Hill" in DC on a professional visit, a Ranger there let me try on her hat! Not my style but fun! 
