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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.

Pride and Prejudice - Friday, February 3, 1961

I finally saw Washington again. Mom bought me a pretty brown tweed coat for next year. It was  a $30.00 coat on sale for $20.00. I went to the Farm Bureau office and got "my" part of the scholarship application--I thought something was missing! I also finally spoke again in government class. I'm still suffering the consequences. He'll think I'm scared stiff of him or awfully dumb or something. I'm now going to read Pride and Prejudice, as we have to read a book for English.

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