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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.

Wanting to Keep a B Average in Algebra - Monday, February 17, 1964

I went to the algebra review session tonight and we worked problems for an hour and a half. Now I feel as if I've had enough algebra but I guess I had better study it a little more before our test tomorrow. I have a B average so far. I went up to the health center this afternoon and got the monthly reports and typed them up. We didn't have a children's lit test today or last Friday since the Gehrenbecks' baby is sick. The fact that I didn't have my anthology reviews finished made me in not too good a mood before arithmetic class, but I changed immeasurably when Mr. Carey said we wouldn't have children's lit.

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