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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.

Science Fair, Science Project - Friday, March 31, 1961

Well, even though we didn't have school today, I spent  almost the entire day on my science project. I finished cutting out letters this morning and set it up in the kitchen for effect. This afternoon I drove to Wellman, and it seemed to take hours to get the letters up. Phyl went with me. We got home just in time for chores. They're not taking quite as long now because Daddy sold four cows. We came home to eat supper, and Mom, Phyl and I got over to the science fair just as the program ended. (We didn't care about seeing it.) I was the only girl in the physical science division. Mine looked pretty good.

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