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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.

"Child Who Read Too Loud" in Ed Psych - Thursday, February 28, 1963

Oh, murgatory! If there were only 48 hours in every day! I have 30 pages of history to read and my own plus four given definitions of politics to write, not to mention that I haven't finished the French play we're supposed to have done by tomorrow and have 20 pages of ed psych to read before the test tomorrow at 4:30. One thing is certain, I'll either live or die. Ed psych tonight. Nancy Taylor led it and had us form groups to act out defects in children. I was "the child that read too loud." We had a swimming practical. She would have given me an A on my crawl but I didn't breathe (B+), C- on backstroke, incomplete on elementary back - which I haven't learned yet.

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