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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.

Philosophizing About Goldwaterism with Mom - Monday, July 20, 1964

At last - Daddy mailed the yearbook pages from the Wellman post office. It came to $4.80. I wrote to Verna Thompson to tell her I hope to be able to see her in Cleveland and to Flo. I got quite a few local news items today. Nic was at the races in Indianola, Iowa, yesterday taking pictures. He got a bad sunburn and nearly got run over by a car - he had a picture that someone took that really showed the effects of his misadventures. He taped it above his desk. That poor guy. Mom and I think that Goldwaterism has something to do with Communist infiltration, and I've taken it as far back as Kennedy's win over Nixon.

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