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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.

Worked on Yearbook All Afternoon - Thursday, February 27, 1964

I worked on the yearbook all afternoon. I really put in my six hours this week, but then I guess it's about time. I finished the Judicial Council page and am about halfway through with the Harvest Festival king and queen pages. We just may have a yearbook. I didn't do as well as I should have on the algebra test. The education test was okay. The LLCs actually beat Fred's team! I once jokingly said I bet they would! ACC Number 1 team just hasn't been up to par. Shirley is so cute - she just had to read Evelyn, Jane and me "gems" from the book she is reading for geography.

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