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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.

Another B on a History Quiz - Friday, January 18, 1963

Some of us saw the show, "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation," tonight. It was pretty good. I got another B on a history quiz - highest grade I saw of those I sneaked a look at in the boxes - except for one other B. Again I think I was lucky. This weekend I have to catch up on my studies. Bluffing has too many close calls and the lucky breaks aren't really justifiable. I swam the free style in our medley against the LECs today as a last minute substitute when Nancy Neill couldn't swim. We got twelve points altogether today. I went down to Parkville to get Ann a birthday present - a manicure set.

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