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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.

Am a Woman and Must Admit It - Wednesday, November 4, 1964

Our Stephens proofs came today. I'm about "sold" on a straight profile - if I don't "chicken out" since mine will be the center one in the front row of photos since I'm president. I practiced my rote song, wrote home, and read art in Alumni tonight. I felt as if I didn't have much to do since we don' student teach tomorrow because of the teachers convention. These days just keep going, going, going and here I am going to be 22. In other words, I'm a woman and I must bring myself to admit it.

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