Paul Parks

Background

Parks, Paul was born on May 7, 1923 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Son of Cleab Jiles and Hazel (Crenshaw) Parks.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 1949. Postgraduate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1958. Postgraduate, University Massachusetts.

Doctor of Engineering, Northeastern University, 1994.

Career

With Indiana State Highway Commission, Indianapolis, 1949-1951. Designer Stone & Webster Engineering, Boston, 1951, Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, Boston, 1951-1952. Missile designer Chance Vought Aircraft, 1952-1953.

Nuclear engineer Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, 1953-1957. Partner architecture and engineering firm, 1957-1967. Administrator Boston Model City Administration, 1968-1976.

Secretary educational affairs Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, since 1976. President Paul Parks and Associates Inc., since 1979. Lecturer Tufts University School Civil Engineering, since 1968.

Member northeastern regional board Fannie Mae, since 1994. Board directors Partners Healthcare Cooperative, member engineering curriculum committee Purdue University. Member visiting committee on planning and architect Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993-1996.

Consultant on planning and urban education problems to Government of Israel, 1972-1987. Representative of President at 50th Anniversary of Liberation of Belgium, Brussels, 1997.

Achievements

• Paul Parks has been listed as a noteworthy Corporate executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Consultant general accounting office Mayor's Committee Administration Justice. Member Attorney General's Advisory Committee Civil Rights, 1969-1971. Member health task force Boston Federal Executive Board.

Adviser Boston Mothers for Adequate Welfare, 1966-1968. Speech therapist Veterans Language Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1964-1966. Member Massachusetts Advisory Council on Education, 1968-1971, Massachusetts Committee Children and Youth, 1962-1967.

Chairman Massachusetts advisory committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission, 1961-1973. Chairman urban affairs committee Massachusetts Federation Fair Housing and Equal Rights, 1961-1967. Member Community Educational Council, 1961-1973.

President Committee for Community Educational Development Inc., 1968-1974. Presidential advisory commission National Council Educational Programs for Women, 1976-1981. President Boston Public Library.

Member zoning board appeals City of Boston. Adult leader youth programs Roxbury Young Men’s Christian Association, 1951-1958. Trustee Brigham Hospital, Women's Hospital.

Board directors Massachusetts Planned Parenthood Association, Massachusetts Mental Health Association, Massachusetts Society Prevention Blindness, Boston College Upward Bound Program. Corporation board Partners Healthcare. Chairman school committee City of Boston, since 1992.

Member regional advisory council Fannie Mae. President Boston School Committee, 1993-1997. With Army of the United States, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations, PTO. Member American Society of Civil Engineers, National Society of Professional Engineers, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (co-chairman education committee 1960-1968, vice president Boston branch 1965-1970), National Academy Public Administration, Americans Democratic Action (national board 1971-1974, state board 1970-1974), Greater Boston City of C. (education committee).

Connections

Married Virginia Loftman, September 18, 1971. Children: Paul, Pamela, Stacey.

Father:

Cleab Jiles Parks

Mother:

Hazel (Crenshaw) Parks

Spouse:

Virginia Loftman

child:

Pamela Parks

child:

Paul Parks

child:

Stacey Parks