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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.

I Rating on Original Oratory - Saturday, January 28, 1961

I got a I (two I's and a II) this afternoon on my original oratory. However, talk about people's minds going blank--mine sure did. I sure felt dumb. But I guess they liked the way I kept my poise. Jerolyn, Shirley and Lillian also got I's. Just after I got home Phyllis Crone called up and wanted me to go to the show with her. We stopped to see Marilyn, thinking she might like to go, but she and Ruth Norton ended up driving around. Anyway, Phyllis and I had fun, too.
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