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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.

Most Thought Anatomy Test Was Bad - Monday, February 19, 1962

Everybody's tired. And it's only Monday. Why don't I do all my way-behind work? Why don't I make the dean's list this semester? I wrote a letter to Mary Brown. My Valentine to Jerolyn was returned. Evidently she is no longer at her apartment in Iowa City. Most kids thought the anatomy test was pretty bad. I didn't think it was too bad. Tomorrow is a French test. I think I'll look over the lessons and go to bed a little earlier than usual. Just so I don't get back into my old habit of going to bed without enough work ahead done.

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