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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.

Robert Frost Died This Morning at Age 88 - Tuesday, January 29, 1963

Robert Frost died this morning. His "and that has made all the difference" had been running through my mind just recently. The radio just now closed a tribute to his life with those lines. In fact I told Margie this afternoon when I informed her he had died that I thought he had written that line in "The Road Not Taken." The greatest American poet since Longfellow - 88 years old. The Park Progressives music group sang this morning in assembly. They played my game. I think they liked it. I handled the WRA election for a while during supper. I got some information from Mr. Mitchell for the Stylus about a Kansas City weekend work camp - it would be nice to take part in.

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