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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.

Same Name, Room, Bottom Bunk, Desk and Closet - Friday, September 18, 1964

Well, one week of student teaching is done already and there are only nine left. I pronounced the spelling words and had a phonics lesson. I also went to observe a young second grade teacher. In fact, I'll bet she's younger than I am. Jan Kendall and Beth Hudson are teaching at Southeast. There is a Larry McDowell, a transfer student from New York, here. He's in Stephens (oh, I made the cardinal error - I should say the cottage). We can't get over the coincidence that he has the same room, bottom bunk, closet and desk that I did! According to Nic's "Town Talk" column, Dave Vanderbilt is being transferred to Dayton, Ohio. Thus another man walks out of my life.

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