EAST PARK BAPTIST ACADEMY PROJECT This memoir consists of five interviews with administrators and teachers of the East Park Baptist Academy in Decatur, Illinois. They discuss the creation and operation of the school: its governing board, curriculum, school activities, faculty, superintendent and administrators, buildings, enrollment growth, and its closing in 1989. They also discuss education in Christian schools, development of the history curriculum from a Christian perspective, and different philosophical approaches to education found in Christian and public schools. Included in the memoir are photocopied pictures of the school building, a newspaper article regarding the closing of the school, a list of graduates, and a paper entitled "Why We Need Christian Schools."

5 tapes, 344 mins., 122 pp., 2 vols. Interview by Linda Moore, 1989 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes, copy of the student handbook, copy of the letter informing parents of the school's closing, graph showing enrollment 1975-1989, and a copy of entrance requirements and tuition. See individual collateral files

For tapes see individual names Anderson, Marjorie Ellen Henderson, Robert L. Moore, Jack Warren, Betty Wood, William Gregory