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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.

Skip Day Plans - Wednesday, February 22, 1961

I'm exhausted. I don't know if we'll ever get the school paper out or not. I layed it out tonight. I think it's going to be eight pages, if they ever get them typed. I goofed off this morning and didn't get my economics read very good, so I really goofed up another test. Mrs. Kephart sounds like it's going to be English and "English only" this semester. We had a class meeting third period. The seniors plan to spend an "organized skip day" at Lake MacBride with supper at Amana.

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