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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.

Stephens May Have Male Students Next Year - Thursday, April 2, 1964

I'm afraid I'm going to have to go through yet another dorm fight during my stay at Park College. It seems that the administration thinks Stephens may have to be occupied by male students next year. "Rise up ye women with arms, the fight has just begun!" I thought I would die this afternoon, yet was thrilled with the composure Babs maintained when she pretended to be Diane after I had taken a call from the president's secretary when they tried to get us to cancel our appointment with him until after we had seen Dean Gibson. Everyone likes my book. Ellen showed it to George and said he just loved it. The algebra test was murder, but at least quite a few thought that. Babs and I made cupcakes for the LLC meeting tonight. I sold 11 chocolate bars to students here for the U. N. Model Assembly during lunch.

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