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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.

Names for Our Cat - Sunday, November 10, 1963

I'll have to get up at 6:00. It always makes a lot of sense after having a whole weekend in which to do homework. What next up here on the hill? Our sewer is backing up and leaking out onto the basement floor. It's a real mess and, to quote Karen Garner, "smells like a zoo." We just had a "name the cat" session. From the names submitted, we selected three: Socrates, Rascal and The Great Poop. So we are using them all: Socrates Rascal Van Poop, S. R. Van Poop for short. Or possibly, reverse Rascal and Socrates and call him RSVP. Evelyn and I went to Copley's open house. We played the ACCs, then Flo and I refereed the PCC-OAC game.

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