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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.

Swam with the LLC Freestyle Team - Thursday, January 17, 1963

I have had quite a day. We learned how to "swim" today just in time for me to put it into practice for the third heat of the 20 yard freestyle for the LLCs this afternoon. There were only three in the heat, so I got three points for third place. Now I've just spent an hour getting tomorrow's teams lined up. Ed psych tonight. Thankfully, we didn't have a test. We had a six page Stylus tonight so I helped stuff center pages and fold this afternoon. Now I have to go outside and get four bottles of pop some of the freshman girls are keeping cold since they can't go out after closing hours. I serve humanity well, n'est-ce pas?

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