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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.

Defining "Society" in Political Science - Friday, January 11, 1963

I helped some of the freshman girls play in a good old loose snow snowball fight tonight. It was out in front of Hawley and lasted about 20 minutes. We girls were really good sports and gave the guys a good battle. I saw the show, "Counterfeit Traitor," tonight. We had a WRA meeting this afternoon. We're getting the girls swimming intramurals underway. I got a B on our pop history quiz - luckily he quizzed  us over Wednesday's lesson rather than today's (which I hadn't read). In poli sci Dr. Neighbor asked me to define "society." My definition of "an organization of human beings living together in a community or civilization" didn't exactly suit - they came up with "a group of people interacting."

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