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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.

Philosophies of Education - Monday, January 20, 1964

We had an SNEA meeting in the faculty lounge tonight. Dr. Pai led a discussion on personal philosophies of education. He started on his own accord so I didn't have to introduce him. We had a fairly good turnout. Mom sent me an extra letter asking more about the cat that scratched me. I, too, hope it didn't have rabies. I see I'm starting to get behind with school work. When people begin to ask me how I manage to do everything, then I realize I must be doing a lot. But I just take one thing at a time. I'm really living in college - in a way I deprived myself of in high school. Fred is such a tease - the girls up here think a lot of him; he's so much fun.

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