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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.

Saw Kiwanis Club Travelog About Colorado River - Monday, May 4, 1964

Phyllis and I went in to one of the travelogs that the Kiwanis Club sponsors during the year. This movie was "Thrills on the Colorado." My grades came today, A in organization and administration, B+ in teaching of arithmetic, in addition to the ones I already knew: government, A, children's lit, B+, geography, B-, and algebra, D. I had a funny experience with the new manager of the State Theatre. (Charlie sent me there to get a brief on the new manager.) He took me clear in to his office from out on the street - he was just coming to the theatre - before he told me he'd gotten mad and resigned Saturday night, so we'd better wait on the story. He was weird - like a Sherlock Holmes character.

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