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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.

"Money's Worth" in Commons - Thursday, March 14, 1963

Ed psych tonight. It seemed to go so fast this time. Now I have to study, study, study for the history test. The results, in order, of the Proportional Representative election were Terry Scullin, George Englebretsen, John Smith, Dave Kwo and Pat Frost. I gave my game from the file in elementary physical education - "Jump the Shot" (jumping a turning rope in a circle). I went to the library to look up definitions, then to the women's lounge to do French. I got my "money's worth" in Commons today! Breakfast - got there late, so went into the kitchen and was served anyway; lunch - upset the tray scrapers by throwing away a wadded up LLC notice with my tray - "Hey, little lady!!"; supper - held up the line while they went to get tea bags upon my asking "Are there any tea bags?"

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