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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.

Dr. Frank Meyer on "Education For What?" - Friday, November 30, 1962

Tonight I took some clothes down to the Laundromat to clean in the self service dry cleaning unit. I wanted to do my red sweater with the white stripe, as I thought it might run if I tried to wash it. Now I've been reading my French book. I should try to finish it tonight. I had wanted to have my conference with Dr. Hampl tomorrow, but I have to wait till Monday. This afternoon at 4:00 I heard Dr. Frank Meyer, a Communist turned Conservative, talk on "Education For What?" I don't know if I'm so fond of the Princeton-Oxford mind or not.

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