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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.

Attacked By a Cat - Tuesday, January 14, 1964

Time is getting away from me. I think I let Fred in on one of my weaknesses tonight - my inability to make up my mind over something trivial - like whether or not to go to breakfast in the morning (we're going). I was just about to the health center this afternoon when a yellow cat I stopped to pat attacked the back of my left leg and scratched it. Mrs. Flaherty thought it was bad enough to give me a tetanus shot. I hope the insurance forms she filled out cover the $3.00 first aid and $1.00 for the tetanus. That's an expensive cat scratch!

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