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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.

A B+ on the Examples Section of the Iliad Test - Friday, December 1, 1961

Judy Xelowski, Carolyn Frobig and I went swimming tonight. I slipped and sat down just as we were leaving and got a red mark on my hip. This afternoon I did my washing, my French for Tuesday (we have a test on Monday) and started taking notes on art. Gee, here it is December 1st. I'm going to have to start making a list of things to take home. I got a B+ on the examples and a C on the essay of the Iliad world lit test. I didn't get bio studied as well as I wanted to last night with several kids borrowing my lecture notes. 1961 is so nearly over. I've never seen a faster year.

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