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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.

Jim Made Two Free Shots for Season's Second Win - Saturday, January 23, 1965

Park beat Graceland tonight, 83-81. It was tied with three seconds left when Jim Peeke was fouled, and he made both free shots. It's only our second win of the season. I spent the afternoon at the library reading philosophy readings. I had planned to read social psychology, but I didn't get to it. It was such a cold, gray, indifferent day - it made one feel kind of useless. I brought back some records from the library. We're enjoying those now on a January winter evening in the dorm room.

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