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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.

An Absentee Ballot in First Presidential Election - Friday, October 23, 1964

I'm getting to like the third graders better every day. For a Friday afternoon, they really responded well to my unit today. I didn't spend the full 45 minutes with it since I went down to Beth Hudson's room to observe the art supervisor's lesson. Beth has a tough bunch - fourth grade slow learners. Holly's older sister, home from college for the weekend, came today. They are a sharp family. I did such things tonight as type the open house invitation stencil and start my oatmeal box tom-tom. I voted with an absentee ballot for my first presidential election. I went down to the notary public before the bank closed at 6:00.

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