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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.

My First Time Watching Mom Teach Her Kindergarten Class - Monday, April 2, 1962

I visited kindergarten today. This was the first time I ever really saw Mom teach school. I wrote the round robin letter and one other letter in the teachers lounge while the kids were taking their naps. It seemed funny to be back in the building on a school day for the first time in almost two years and also funny to have the oldest class be the sixth grade. Tonight Phyllis and I went to an honor society meeting but got there too late. We watched the mixed chorus "Roaring 20's Revue" rehearsal. It's real good.

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