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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.

Taught the Third Graders Their Spelling Lesson - Wednesday, September 16, 1964

Stephens girls went up to the cottage tonight and got our "Stephens Cottage" sign back. It's now hanging out our lounge window. They were supposed to have a new name chosen for themselves, but they "fizzled out" on us. Suggestions: Hougland's Hole; Circumstance Cottage! I taught the third grade class their spelling lesson this afternoon. Miss Dyer said I did very well. Some of the slower ones failed to respond to my own directions at the end for them to write their complete list of words. I think I'm really going to like working with Miss Dyer and this class.

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