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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.

Attended a Student Council Meeting - Tuesday, February 4, 1964

It's 11:00 and neither Evelyn nor I have started our government papers on "The Nature of the Constitution" that are due tomorrow. I went to a student council meeting as a visitor tonight. It was quite enlightening, but when it got to be about 9:30, I left. As it was, Fred was waiting in the lounge when I got here. I am learning more and more about conversation with men - for that matter I always have felt proud of a topic I've introduced that is tossed around for a length of time (even though I may not contribute a lot to it myself). At work today I helped Mrs. Flaherty change a typewriter ribbon, made a bed and filled two water pitchers.

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