HAROLD DAVID PARKS

Harold David Parks was born, March 2, 1945 in Lexington, North Carolina. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1992 where he was on the Presidents List. Academic awards at The University of Alabama included the Ronald P. Shankles Faculty Award for Academic Excellence, the Samuel J. Senter Scholarship, Faculty scholarship award for Outstanding Independent Study of The U.S.-Vietnam War, and an invitation to compete for the Rhodes Scholarship.

Harold David Parks is a U.S. Army veteran (Vietnam 1967-68), and since 1978 has been employed as a high school teacher at Central Davidson Sr. High School in Lexington, North Carolina, USA. He has co-authored papers on the effects of war stress in WWII veterans that have been presented at the Southern Gerontological Society. He enjoys writing and has completed an as yet unpublished historical novel. His writings on Mahatma Gandhi are the culmination of his thesis efforts at Wake Forest University where he recently earned a Master of Arts Degree.