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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.

Merry Lee's Mother Had a Heart Attack - Tuesday, November 28, 1961

It's time to go to bed. Are we lucky! There are no classes tomorrow because of the funeral for the head of the math department. Merry Lee is flying home tomorrow because she got a phone call tonight that her mother had a heart attack and is very sick. I got a B on my speech about a major in English. I got favorable constructive criticisms - I mean they were able to say what I did wrong constructively and not just generally like for some. Gee, I got 66 for C+ on that art test. Linda Lehman and I stayed to talk to him after class and he said we'd see about a C for me if I make 80s on the last two tests. I will. Some of us went to a music department recital.

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