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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.

Satisfactory Work at College - Tuesday, January 10, 1961

I babysat for Fudges for a little over two hours while they were at the girls' games here. Today I got the results back of the PSAT test some of us took in October. It seems unusual, but my math (44) was higher than my verbal score (41). Possible scores range from 20 to 80, so-----. I think I just squeezed past the "able to do satisfactory work at any college" mark. I'm supposed to see Mr. Sawyer tomorrow for further interpretation and discussion. We have a big government test. I'm sure he'll think I never saw a government book in my life.

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