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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.

We Have Another Unusual Basketball Game With the OACs - Monday, April 16, 1962

We had another unusual game with the OACs. We were ahead at the half but then they passed us up and were leading 32 to 14 in the last quarter when Cheryl Wiley elbowed me on a lay-up. Since they had only five players (Bev had gotten hurt) and it was Cheryl's fifth foul, it mean forfeiting the game - unless they take it before the WRA Council and find out otherwise. I have tests tomorrow in world lit and French. Grandma and Grandpa may be stopping this week on their way home. Some kids on a Presbyterian youth caravan are at Park.

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