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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.

Senior Class Play Conversation - Monday, April 24, 1961

Tonight we talked about not having our class play after all. It just seems to be too much on top of everything else and we're not learning our lines. Everyone is in favor of it, so we're going to speak to Mr. Evans about it tomorrow. I hope we weren't too tired to think straight tonight and get scared out tomorrow. We didn't practice tonight. Mrs. Fordyce gave me a balling out last period. (Wow!) I figured it would be coming, but my grades come before the school paper. I goofed up on chemistry--missed 7 out of 21. I'm spoiling myself. 

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