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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.

Studied on Blanket on the Front Lawn - Tuesday, February 5, 1963

I read history and political science in the library and was finished with both by 9:30. Now other things have kept me from getting back to summarizing the poli sci and studying for the French test tomorrow. Diane Porter was over to copy some of my French notes. The noise here caused her to ask me how I could stand it. Sometimes I wish I knew! I just blew my stack at my roommate in an argument stemming from Ed Staniec's kicking my ball away from me (all in fun!) in an elementary physical education game today. I should control my temper, but I've taken enough long enough. This was a beautiful day. I studied for a while on a blanket on the front lawn.

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