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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.

Education Department Comps Have Been Changed - Friday, December 4, 1964

For some reason this just didn't seem like Friday. Holly's mother called to say she wouldn't be here again. We had the follow-up to Wednesday's movie with the sequence class. I was going to work this afternoon to make up the hour I lost at 11:00, but they were in the process of departmental oral comps so I didn't stay. They have now changed the education department comps procedure to four hours of hours of written and two of orals rather than six of written comps. Judy and I went down to the White House lounge to study tonight.

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