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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.

Am Reading Facing Mt. Kenya - Monday, February 24, 1964

Evelyn went home tonight. She was sick yesterday with a sore throat and still wasn't feeling too well. Fred came up tonight. I don't know what to decide to do - I suppose I should at least let him know I think it would be best to break up - but when? When did I first really feel this way? Could it be that all along I've had sort of what might be called a "crush" on Fred? We haven't gotten our algebra tests back yet and Mr. Reynolds has had our geography tests for two weeks. I'm enjoying my outside reading book, Facing Mt. Kenya, that Karanja loaned to me. I'll have to read 60 pages a day to finish it by Friday. The children's lit test wasn't bad.

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