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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.

A Child's Garden of Verses - Tuesday, January 28, 1964

Evelyn and I went down to Parkville this afternoon. I returned the library books and checked out Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (about time I read that). We also got some popcorn for a dorm birthday party, soup and gingerbread mix for the guys, and I picked out a card and gift wrap for Fred. Fred writes well. He had a heritage review paper here tonight. It was excellent (sounded like a finished research paper). I went to an algebra review session tonight. I wish Dave Portzer, our student grader, would take over for Miss Konkle and teach the class all the time.

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