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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.

Slow Dancing, Fast Dancing With Fred - Friday, March 6, 1964

I went to a party at Copley tonight. I sure like dancing with Fred. I was even game for one fast dance in which he worked up a sweat. I've got to learn how better. I worked tonight, too. I didn't quite finish the algebra test, although some other kids didn't either. It was kind of hard to think of things to write for the government test. At midterm I have C's in government and algebra and S's in everything else. The Board of Student Publications and Narva staff met this afternoon at 4:00 but I only had to stay 15 minutes. I've decided to run for WJC Chairman so I'm getting signatures on my petition.

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