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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.

Tonight We Wrote Letters to Governor Scranton - Sunday, June 28, 1964

Governor Scranton of Pennsylvania gave one of the most poised and personable speeches I've ever heard on television tonight. He's out to defeat Goldwater for the Republican nomination, and that has to be done! He asked that people show their support by writing or telegramming him. Daddy, Phyllis and I have written letters. This is going to be exciting. He more or less started his campaign in Des Moines two weeks ago. Ann and I went with Mom and Dad to check on the cows tonight. Ben called Phyllis while I was gone, and Skip also wanted to talk with me. We went down to Parcells this afternoon.

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