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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.

Shook Up - Monday, January 23, 1961

We had an Honor Society meeting tonight. I resigned my post as treasurer "worrying" about Mr. Brown's command to get the order for jewelry and other things sent off tomorrow. I'll have to see him home room period but have declam, etc., and so forth. But why do I get so shook up--speaking to me roughly in front of the group, maybe? Bravo, I was nominated for president. Our water pipes and faucets were frozen this morning and they burst in three places during the day. We might have been swimming if Daddy hadn't been here.

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