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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.

Officially Going Steady - Tuesday, January 21, 1964

Fred asked me to go steady with him - to tell the truth, I had more or less taken it for granted that we were all along, but I guess this makes it official. I haven't accomplished much tonight. I wrote out some yearbook picture scheduling notices. If tomorrow's weather is as nice as today's was, we'll take some outside. After I got Mom's letter yesterday asking more about the cat that scratched me, I talked to Mrs. Flaherty about it, and she is convinced that it didn't have rabies. Some of us gathered in Shirley and Ellen's room tonight to read a controversial article on sex in Time, but it didn't contain much that was new! I've got to get my books read for children's lit.

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