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Richard Parks began working at Evon Streetman Photography in Tallahassee ca. 1963. Streetman later sold the business and studio to Parks when she moved to Gainesville about 1965. The studio was renamed Richard Parks Photography.

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Born on March 16, 1917. In 1968, he accepted the position of Professor of Flute at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, where he remained until 1975. After his tenure at FSU, he joined the faculty of the Shepard School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he served as Professor of Flute and Chairman of Applied Music. He retired as Professor Emeritus at Rice University in 1990 and returned to Tallahassee. Albert Tipton was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Flute Association at the Orlando convention in 1995. He died in Tallahassee on October 5, 1997.