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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.

We Want to Sponsor a Remedial Reading Program - Monday, November 23, 1964

I'm back to my old ways of having to do a paper at the last minute. This just has to be a rough draft, but then for me rough drafts are all but finished products. After much consideration, I'm going to get up at 5:00. I want to give it the best possible under the circumstances. I typed our letter to parents, their survey, and the explanatory letter to the teachers for the remedial reading program the education department wants to have this summer. It took Evelyn and me all afternoon to help Mrs. Ground run them off, staple them, and deliver them to the three Park Hill District elementary schools.

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