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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.

Physical and Emotional Tensions - Friday, February 7, 1964

I may be falling apart! I feel sick - probably a combination of physical and emotional tensions. I don't know what's wrong with me unless it's that time of month again. There is a pre-carnival party in the J. R. tonight but we didn't go. As Fred said when Margaret and Dave came into the lounge and looked at us as if we should be at the party, "If we wanted to be at the dance, we'd be there." Actually, he's broke. We went to the game tonight. We got beat by six points or so in a good game against John Brown University. I've been pushing too hard if I literally have to fight to keep my eyes open in class.

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