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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.

1962 Has Been a Good and Profitable Year - Sunday, December 30, 1962

1962 is about over (one more day but I probably won't be writing again before the year is gone). It has been a very good and profitable year for me. I am really very lucky, so many nice things have happened to me. This afternoon we worked on my financial aid application blank for next year. I probably won't be able to get anything since I don't have a 2.0 average (Park's top, by the way is 3.0, whereas most colleges use 4.0 for A) and they have always said we have enough income that I didn't need financial aid. Virginia is staying all night at Bonnie's. Betty was here for a while this afternoon.

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