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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.

Saw Ranger 8 Moon Shot Photos with Seth and Charlie - Saturday, February 20, 1965

Tonight I went to the basketball game with Seth (McKendree beat us in our last game of the season), and then we went to the double feature, Godzilla vs. The Thing and The Brass Bottle. Both were about equally stupid and funny. I certainly enjoyed being able to share the experience of seeing the first views of the Ranger 8 moon shot pictures with Seth and Charlie Armentrout in the J.R. They'll probably be involved with similar research themselves in the future. Seth saw a cloud spread out from the area of impact through the telescope this morning.

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