The Reader’s Notebook

The Reader’s Notebook: Edna Ruth Parker

By Greg Jenkins

Published April 20, 2022 at 9:40 AM EDT

Edna Ruth Parker was an American supercentenarian who, for fifteen months, was recognized as the oldest person in the world. She was featured in two documentaries and included in a Boston University DNA database of supercentenarians.

The Reader’s Notebook

Greg Jenkins

Greg Jenkins has been the Operations Director at MSPR since 1999. Greg is a 1996 graduate of Morehead State University with a BME in Music Education and received a Masters of Science in Industrial Technology in 2008. Greg oversees training, scheduling, and evaluation of the student board operator staff, preparation of the daily traffic logs and serves as weekday classical music host. He is also the webmaster of the MSPR website and maintains MSPR's webstreaming and podcasting.

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