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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.

Will be Coordinating Remedial Reading Program - Monday, May 17, 1965

Well, it looks as if the month of June has been cut out for me after all. Dee called me tonight - Dr. Pai told her to charge it to the education department - to see if I could go down to act as the remedial reading program coordinator since she doesn't think she'll have time. I guess they have eleven students for it now. This makes us about back where we started from. I was just thinking today I wonder what I'd be doing if I was getting ready for the program - I don't think I will do much ahead of time. I sunbathed and looked through magazines for third grade pictures. This evening I helped Mom plant petunias and ageratums.

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