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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.

Two of Our Names Have Been Mentioned - Thursday, October 29, 1964

Our first of four nightly events is over - Hawley gave a fun Halloween party for Stephens and Herr House. The Stephens girls sang some "Peanuts" Halloween songs. I was going to get up at 6:00, but my alarm didn't go off, so at 6:45 I got up and madly dashed off a worksheet and reading plans for the top group which was the only one I took today. I observed in Dixie's room again. Dr. Pai asked me if Mr. Fincher had spoken to me about a job and said that he had mentioned Mrs. Steelman's and my names to the superintendent as two he was recommending.

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