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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.

Evelyn's Home and Family Are Nice - Friday, April 19, 1963

A whip-poor-will clearly calls on the hill. Margie has gone home and for the first time I know what it is like to have a college room all my own. I am halfway through college, and my four hours' sleep last night say "go to bed." This evening I went out to Evelyn's house. She certainly has a nice family. They are a lot like us, remind me of Helen Birkey and her family. The religion and history tests weren't bad at all (the Wednesday night kids for the religion test said it was really bad). I read the first question wrong though and defined all seven terms rather than just five - rats! I got a B for poli sci! Yippee!

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