By Amy Beth Franks
Our class was greeted early Thursday morning by Tony Clark, Director of Public Affairs for the Carter Presidential Library and Museum and a former colleague of Dean Bierbaurer at CNN. He gave our class a brief tour of the Center which is located in a wooded, 35-acre park just five minutes from downtown Atlanta. The Carter Presidential Center’s spectacular grounds include formal gardens, sculptures and waterfalls tucked between two small lakes. Visitors can stroll through the Rose Garden, which is home to 40 varieties of flowers or view the serene Japanese garden, designed by Kinsaku Nakane. Inside visitors can walk through a mock Oval Office and view the 27 million pages of documents from the Carter Administration.
After the tour, Mr. Clark turned the presentation over to Lauren Delaney, Director of Education for the Carter Center. Ms. Delany showed a brief presentation explaining the fundamentals of the organization and some of their principles for peace.
The Carter Center is a non-profit, nongovernmental organization founded in 1982 in Atlanta by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in partnership with Emory University. The Center seeks to wage peace, fight disease and build hope in a world where people live every day under difficult, life-threatening conditions caused by war, disease and famine. The ultimate goal is to help create a world where every man, woman and child has the opportunity to enjoy good health and live in peace.
I am very grateful to the staff of the Carter Center for making such wonderful accommodations for our class. It was an invaluable experience and one that I am sure our class will not forget.
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