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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.

Will Work on Articulation and Projection - Saturday, October 14, 1961

This morning I had speech class and was able to hear my criticisms. They were pretty favorable. I need to work on articulation and projection. I'll concentrate on that when I give my next one, a narrative, which should take less thought on subject matter. I got a B- on my speech. Margie and I explored the woods over by Woodward after taking a notebook over there. We found a little unoccupied house after choosing a "two roads diverged in a yellow wood" path. Patty sent me a care package - fudge and peanut brittle. I got to reconsidering going down there at Thanksgiving. It really would be pretty easy. I could go from 4:15 to 7:45 in the evening by bus and there's no biology test that week.

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