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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.

We Are Watching the Republican Convention - Monday, July 13, 1964

The Republican Convention is just ready to have its keynote address by Governor Hatfield - Flash!! - Iowa's own Hultman just presented a resolution - honoring Herbert Hoover on his forthcoming birthday. Hoover, Hatfield, Hultman! Perfect timing - was that great! Scranton is still fighting on - there's a slight damper in that he is said to have lost some personal support because of a letter to Goldwater - but Scranton said he hadn't written it, and that it wasn't even meant to go to Goldwater. I've got four pages left of the yearbook, plus finishing touches left to do. Aunt Bertha died this morning.

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