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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.

Lecture by Erik R. Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn - Friday, November 10, 1961

Vivien, Margie, Janet and I just got back from hearing a tremendously interesting lecture by Dr. Erik R. Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn from Austria. He spoke on "Colonialism - Myth and Reality." He was sponsored by Park's new Society of the Right and it was very stimulating. Before that we went to the LEC melodrama, "Dora the Beautiful Dishwasher" or "The Girl Who Cleaned Up." The biology test was easy but I made something too hard and goofed a good chance for probably 40 points. My colored pictures finally came. Everyone is pleased with the composition but the color isn't too good.

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