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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.

Spoke with Two Women at KCMSD Board Building - Friday, December 11, 1964

Stephens gave a Christmas party for Nickel in Millsap Lounge tonight. It really was a lot of fun. We played games, pulled taffy, in general goofed off, and we gave each guy a Christmas stocking (one for Dammitt II, too) and a tree for the dorm. This afternoon I took a bus in to talk with Dr. Marion Simmons and Mrs. Virginia Brown in the Kansas City School District Board of Education building about our remedial reading program. They gave me many constructive insights. Maybe this can be a "start" toward "working my way up in educational circles."

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