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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.

Goldwater and Miller Are Republican Candidates - Thursday, July 16, 1964

Barry Goldwater of Arizona is the Republican candidate for President. I don't care much for his running mate, Bill Miller of New York. He looks a little sneaky. I don't know what to think of Goldwater. I think he'll be pretty hard for me to buy. It's interesting to observe and try to interpret political history in these trying times. I just found instructions from Karen today for me to do two yearbook pages on "Hell Week," so I got them done tonight. This morning I checked through page by page and wrote special instructions for Karen. It should be ready to mail tomorrow.

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