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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.

The Nice Thing About College is Having Everyone Smart - Thursday, March 3, 1962

Luckily for me Dr. Hampl won't be here tomorrow so I was able to spend all evening studying for the anatomy test tomorrow. We had an LLC meeting tonight. I had a terrible time getting through Dick and Dave's heads what a relish plate was. Today I followed my typical Tuesday-Thursday schedule including assembly, phys ed and lab. The nice thing about college is having everyone smart and no one look at you funny as if they're better than you (a lot of this may be just Park) - this type thing began last year at Mid-Prairie. Brad Kiesey won the Quill and Scroll national feature writing contest!

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