Robert Park
Honor Code SignatorySigned 6 May 2020 | 175 contributions | 1 thank-yous | 170 connections
Signed 6 May 2020 | 175 contributions | 1 thank-yous | 170 connections
Dr. Robert W. Park
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Son of Wilford Park
and Catherine Leonard
Brother of
Betty (Park) Ponder [half], [private brother (1930s - unknown)] [half], Winnifred Park, [private brother (1940s - unknown)] and [private brother (1940s - unknown)]
Father of
[private son (1970s - unknown)], [private son (1970s - unknown)] and [private son (1980s - unknown)]
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Biography
Robert Watson Park
I was born in Brownsville Ontario, February 1940, moved to Whitby Ont. January 1942, moved to Deep River Ont. 1945, to Minneapolis Minnesota December 1949, and to Madison Wisconsin fall 1961. While working in Madison I lived in rural Iowa County Wisconsin 1974-78 and near Lake Wisconsin in Columbia County 1979-1992. Since then I have lived in Madison with my wife Barbara Steinau Park.
Education
Graduated from the now long gone West High School in Minneapolis on June 14, 1957
Graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering on June 10, 1961
Graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering on August 15, 1970
The photographs from my doctoral dissertation are on the Internet in the "When Water Drops Collide" gallery reached via the photography section of the Park Family Scrapbook [1].
Employment
Summer Engineer at Dow Chemical Company, Midland Michigan summer 1960
National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Participation Project 1960-61
Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Tougaloo College, Tougaloo Mississippi 1967
Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemical Engineering Department 1970-71
State Coordinator for the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group Organizing Committee 1972-73
Air Pollution Engineer at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 1973 to 2006
Senior partner of LoonFoot Web Designs [2] 1999 to the present
Host of the first of the Park Family reunions held every 5 years. It was held in the Lake Wisconsin vicinity the day after I married Barbara on July 11, 1981.
Father of:
Robin S Park-Doob
Mischa Alan Park-Doob
Ian Wesley Park
Originator of the Park Family Scrapbook on the Internet, creator of the Park Family CD-ROM 2001, and founder of LoonFoot Web Designs, which moved in 2003 to a new web site with its own domain name.
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