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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.

Summary Compared to Jackie and Paintings - Friday, January 25, 1963

I went with Kathy Butler to the show, "Boys' Night Out." It was pretty good. Gee, these weeks go fast, especially from Friday to Friday. Only two LLCs besides me showed up for swimming so we couldn't run our medley, but Kathy got two second places (almost won the first butterfly she'd ever swum) and Babs got a third. Carolyn, Lynda and I were talking tonight about seeing if we could stop swimming as soon as possible and start volleyball or basketball. Dr. Neighbor wrote a riot of a comment on my poli sci summary - compared it to Jackie pointing out White House paintings!

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