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Sharon Parker, MA
 Sharon Parker is the Founding Director of the Life Lover ® Foundation, a philanthropic organization devoted to funding today's molecular research for tomorrow's cancer cures. With a masters degree in gerontology, she has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Northern Colorado's Graduate School of Gerontology ad as the director of the nationally distinguished Re Boulder County, Colorado.
Sharon has also worked for Action, the Government volunteer agency. Her program was used as a model for the set up of other RSVP's across the country. While serving as director of the Volunteer and Information Center for Boulder County, Colorado, she brought the program to new levels of excellence and national recognition. At Colorado University, she taught an accredited course on volunteer management, a program sponsored by the United Way of America. She was also the director of the Braille Institute of America program for the blind and visually impaired elderly in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Sharon also has extensive experience as an entertainer and as a leading figure in the resort industry. She was a professional actress and singer, starting at the age of ten.
She first appeared on television with Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney on ABC. Jubilee Records produced her first single, Matching Kisses. Sharon recorded for ABC Paramount and had a hit-of-the-week with "Don't let Him Know," when she was eighteen. Interviewed on both radio and television, Sharon's popularity grew and she performed at many clubs including The Concord, Grossinger's, Kutchers, Nevele, and at the Hotel Taft with Vincent Lopez. Once married to George Parker, of the legendary Concord Resort Hotel, Sharon quickly established herself as an institution at the hotel. As an official hostess to the stars, Sharon welcomed singers and comedians as well as those attending conventions at the hotel, which often had three thousand guests in the Concord dining room on Saturday nights.
Also while at the Concord, Sharon gave talks about the history of the Concord; she wrote the Concord's weekly contribution to the "Round the Resorts" section for the New York Post for many years.
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