Contemporary IEs

Jimmy Carter -39th President of the United States. Attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology and received a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a submariner, serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and rising to the rank of lieutenant. Chosen by Admiral Hyman Rickover for the nuclear submarine program, he was assigned to Schenectady, N.Y., where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf.

Roger Corman -Film director, industrial engineering degree from Stanford University. He started direct involvement in films in 1953 as a producer and screenwriter, making his debut as director in 1955. Between then and his official retirement in 1971 he directed dozens of films, often as many as six or seven per year, typically shot extremely quickly on leftover sets from other, larger productions. His probably unbeatable record for a professional 35mm feature film was two days and a night to shoot the original version of "The Little Shop of Horrors".

Tom Landry -Former Dallas Cowboys coach.

Michael L. Eskew -Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UPS, the world's largest package delivery company and a global leader in supply chain services.

William H. Swanson -Chairman and CEO of RaytheonCompany, an industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft.

Michael T. Duke -Vice Chairman, Wal-Mart, runs the international division after heading Wal-Mart Stores U.S.A. Mr. Duke previously served as the Executive Vice President and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Wal-Mart Stores Division, since April 2003, and prior to that position, he served as the Executive Vice President of Administration, since July 2000. He has also served as the Company's Executive Vice President of Logistics.

Charles Armstrong -President of Seattle Mariners.

John Dasburg -CEO of Northwest Airlines.

Jim McCaslin -President and CEO, Harley Davidson Motor Co.

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