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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.

Two Scoops of Ice Cream from Vivien - Tuesday, December 5, 1961

This afternoon Vivien and I went down to Parkville while she shopped and treated me to two scoops of ice cream. The rest of the afternoon I spent studying art and French. Wow, do I ever need to raise my grades. As I look back over my time I can't figure out where it all went. I surely didn't waste a whole lot of it. Perhaps I'm studying too much again. We had fun in art class this morning. We didn't have bio lab this afternoon. Oh, I got an A- on my French test - one of the two highest grades in the class. This is another Religion in Life Week. The week's speaker had a good talk in assembly on "The Nature of Man." I guess I won't take time to go to the dorm discussion tonight.

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