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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.

So Much Trouble as States Prepare to Vote - Wednesday, July 15, 1964

I have not given up the fight for Scranton - nominations are going on now. I'm going to stay up to watch the voting. They've had so much trouble - counterfeit tickets, refusal to let Scranton demonstrators into the Cow Palace, failure to deliver letters for the Scranton cause (ours included?) to state delegations, and I don't know what all else. As I said today on the "Man on the Street" program when asked what I thought about political conventions, "I'm beginning to wonder what some people are thinking of American democracy." I went to Aunt Bertha's funeral between my news round and press time. Varners are here. Debbie is so cute.

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