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Juanita Park
Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame Inductee, 2013
Park spent the first 20 years of her 67-year teaching career at Rockport Elementary
and High School teaching first through eighth grade from 1944 to 1965. In 1965 she
taught first-graders at Western Kentucky State College’s Training School. Park’s career
continued in 1966 at WKU’s Jones-Jaggers Laboratory School and then in WKU’s Teacher
Education program where she supervised student teachers and conducted student teaching
seminars until retiring earlier this year.A native of Louisville, Juanita Kennedy
Park began her teaching career in 1944 in Ohio County and continued to work with student
teachers at WKU until 2012.
She attended WKU where she received a bachelor’s degree in 1957 and a master’s degree in 1959.
Park served as president of the Kentucky Association of Classroom Teachers in the mid-1960s and received several awards for her service with the Kentucky Education Association.
CONTACT THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Office of the Dean
College of Education and Behavioral Sciences
1906 College Heights Blvd. #11030,
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1030
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