ABOUT
SARAH PARKER MODEL
& TALENT AGENCY The
Sarah Parker Modeling School and Model &
Talent Agency was established in 1972 by Sarah
Parker. Ms. Parker is a native of Mississippi and
attended Mississippi State University majoring in
Sociology, where she served as secretary to the
President of the State of Mississippi College
Council. Ms. Parker was active in the music and
choral departments, the Baptist Training Union,
and represented her college, county and regional
divisions in numerous musicals and pageants.
Ms. Parker and her staff of models have
participated in many major events that have
shaped the growth of Palm Beach County; the Royal
Palm Festival, which is now known as
"Sunfest", the Airport 88 ground
breaking of the Palm Beach International Airport,
and sponsor of the Miss South Florida Fair Beauty
Pageant and the West Palm Beach Boat Show.
Ms. Parker is the past president of the
Advertising Club of the Palm Beaches where she
was presented with the special achievement awards
for "unselfish contributions of
time-effort-creativity" in the Florida
Advertising Federation, Fourth District, AAF. Ms.
Parker hosted "Looking Good Today" a
weekly show for the Scripts Howard television
network. Ms. Parker contributed feature articles
for international magazines, newspapers and other
publications.
The Sarah Parker Modeling School and Model &
Talent Agency was granted a membership to the
Better Business Bureau in 1986. List of Elected
and appointed positions serving under
Chairmans David Fancher and Ron Stephens.
| 1988 |
Communications
& Special Events Coordinator |
| 1989/1990 |
Special
events committee |
| 1991 |
Membership
Committee |
| 1992 |
Executive
& Membership Committees |
| 1993 |
Program,
Finance, Special events & Executive
Committees, and Treasurer |
| 1994/95 |
Executive
Committee, appointed as Vice-Chairman and
served on the Annual Assembly Committee |
Ms. Parker & her staff are featured lecturers
for the HRS Services in Florida, most junior and
high school career days, and works with many
business organizations throughout the Tri- County
areas of Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie.
Ms. Parker holds four registered trademarks and
patents in color analysis, and has her own
cosmetic and skin care line. Sarah works
currently as a make-up artist, stylist and set
designer on special request assignments. Ms.
Parker and her staff train and prepare `make-up
artist and stylist to work in the industry.
Sarah Parkers personal credits include such
companies as Miracle Plant Grow starring James
Whitmore, Mark Foley (US Senator) Television
Campaign, The Dean Witter Million Dollar Club
industrial video, and the John Henry financial
Corporation print brochure. Ms. Parker is a
fashion show commentator, writer and producer,
with over 600 shows in her career including; the
Breakers Hotel, The Manalapan Club, The Ocean
Grand, the Hyatt Regency, the Goody Hair
Corporation, Henry Grethal for John Henry, Lillie
Rubin, Gucci, Sara Fredericks, Valentino
Boutique, the DeBartolo Corporation, J. Wilson
Mall Associates for Florida & Georgia, TJ Max
Corporation for Ingalls, Quinn & John son,
The Tulip Company for PBS Television and numerous
charities and high school DECA programs.
Ms. Parker and her modeling school staff have
trained tens of thousands of men, women and
children during the thirty years of her
school and placed models & talent world wide.
Ms. Parker developed her own curriculum, text
books and materials licensed by the State of
Florida. Curriculum includes: Model Child,
Personal Self-Discovery, Advanced European
Modeling and Beginning and Advanced Television
Drama and Make-up Artistry. Ms. Parker produced a
two hour video on self-improvement in association
with the gifted students at the Christa McAuliffe
Middle School in Boynton Beach and ABC Television
affiliate WPBF, Channel 25, and the "Great
Expectations Programs."
Sarahs models continue to grace magazine
layouts and covers from Palm Beach to Milan.
People you will recognize from the past few
years: Amy Steel (Palm Beach) of the Friday the
13th movie series; Sam Jones (Jupiter) got his
break in the movie "10" starring Bo
Derek - Sam is still mobbed in Europe for his
classic role as Flash Gordon and has starred in
thirty movies and appears regularly on television
series; Teresa Marie Blake (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
starring in day time soaps "One Life to
Live"; Sharon Cauldwell (West Palm Beach)
featured in many national commercials including
Country Time Lemonade, Ritz Crackers and
Dexatrim; Heidi Marke (Miss South Florida Fair
1989) starring roles in "Silk
Stalking", "Young and the
Restless", "Bay Watch",
"Thunder in Paradise", "Love
Boat" and the New Wave & HBO movie
"Weapons of Mass Destruction"; Miss
Laura Lombardi (Orlando) hostess for Planet Kidz
"the Discovery Channel"; Yennie Alvarez
currently starring on Telemundo Television in Los
Angeles; Jenna Collins (14 mos.) appearing in the
year 2000 catalogs for Nickermans & Oshkosh.
Over the past thirty years, the Sarah Parker
Model & Talent Agency has produced "tens
of thousands" of jobs,
many of them full time employment in various
modeling roles. Careers have been launched into
major job markets in the entertainment industry
such as: production assistants, producers,
make-up artists, studio stylists, set designers,
instructors, photographers, talent coordinators,
and most every aspect of the glamour, modeling
and entertainment industries.
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