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~ About: A 1961-65 Park College Diary ~ As a high school girl and then a college coed in the first half of the 1960s, I wrote nightly entries on the pages of one-year diaries. In January 2010 I began transcribing the entries into a blog and gave each one a title. I grew up on three farms within 30 miles of Iowa City and the University of Iowa with its Iowa Writers' Workshop. As the oldest of four daughters, in my diaries I sometimes referred to my sisters as "the kids" or "the girls." We helped our parents, but we also had good, wholesome fun - a characteristic I took with me to Park. Park is 300 miles southwest of West Chester, Iowa, in Parkville, Missouri, on the Missouri River 10 miles northwest of Kansas City, Missouri, and across the river from Kansas City, Kansas. In 2000 Park College became Park University. Today Park's flagship campus is in Parkville and there are an additional 41 campus centers across the nation. Park was one of the first educational institutions in the United States to offer online learning. My last post was on May 22, 2018. I may be followed on Twitter @BarbaraMcDWhitt.

May Work in Education Department Next Year - Friday, April 17, 1964

I worked tonight, and then, for the cause of small dorms, went to Hawley to collect signatures. The nine we have on ours look rather poor compared to the 207 Chestnut has collected. Oh well, just so they sign one of them. A note from the president and deans today stating our requests they would grant us excluded our own phone, but we think we can get one. I got up at 5:00 and worked every spare minute to finish my book reviews by 1:00. I got a C+ on the last geography test and a B on my government paper. Dean Pai approached me briefly about the possibility of working next year as an education department assistant.

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