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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.

Visited West Chester's Third Grade Teacher - Friday, May 8, 1964

The wind is blowing, as it has been for some time. There have been tornados some place in Iowa for five straight days. Tonight we had the mother-daughter tea at our church. The program theme was "Grandmother's Album" with Grandma McDowell having the part of the grandmother. I read the 23rd Psalm. This morning I went over to the school and talked with Julie Zager, the third grade teacher. She gave me some of their books and a lot of things to look through for an Indian social studies unit in case I need it for student teaching. Just seeing her things has given me some good ideas - I'm ready to begin practice teaching right now.

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