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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.

Said "Zotz!" and Plane Tilted its Wings - Sunday, April 14, 1963

This was a beautiful Easter Sunday. It's a shame that there are always so few people in chapel. They liked my new dress. This afternoon I studied in one of the Mackay rooms. Jim Fitzroy was there, too. We had been looking out the window when I saw a plane flying over the river which I pointed at and said "Zotz!" (The movie "Zotz!" Friday night centered around the translation of an ancient coin that resulted in the power of destruction by the holder of the coin for anything he pointed at and said "Zotz!") I nearly dropped dead when at that very moment the plane tilted its wings!

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