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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.

Suggested Quotation Marks for "Hell Week" - Tuesday, March 24, 1964

We were installed as the new members of the student council and had our first meeting tonight. If "Hell Week" is seen in quotation marks from now until the name is eventually changed, I can consider it my suggestion. I think we're going to have a good council. We also had an ICC meeting this evening. The OACs asked the LLCs to their hayride April 11 as an effort to encourage joint club activity. In the last three days I've had someone mention to me the possibility of my serving as Narva editor, Stephens president, ICC chairman. It's nice to feel wanted. As a first-month college freshman I couldn't have dreamed I could eventually have as much influence as I must have.

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