Ted Park (2001) - Hall of Fame - Central Michigan University Athletics

Ted Park

Induction:
2001
Class:
1943

Recognized by many Central Michigan veterans as the finest tennis player to play for the Chippewas, Ted was the No. 1 man on three outstanding CMU teams and lost just eight matches in four years (1940-43) ... competed in the National Tennis Tournament at Northwestern as a sophomore and also represented CMU in the NCAA finals ... attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin where he won a Big Ten crown ... one of the top academicians ever produced by Central, Park's roles in education included National Science Fellow to Cambridge (England), a professor of microbiology at Vanderbilt, a research biochemist at Pennsylvania and the chairman of the microbiology department at Tufts ... CMU's Gerald Edgar Park Library was named after Ted's father.