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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.

Park Will Drop Summer Term After This Summer - Tuesday, February 16, 1965

Today in assembly Dr. Hamilton announced that, after much consideration, the college has decided to drop the summer trimester after this summer and go back to the two semesters basis rather than have three trimesters a year. This is my luck after three years of putting up with the three trimesters plan. Some of the kids would like to see the 15-week fall and spring terms remain instead of going back to 18-week terms. I feel at least partly due the credit for getting Terry Osuga to run for WJC chairman and Winnie for vice president of the student council. Dr. Meyer talked with me today. He said Dr. Pai had said he could come to hear me give my report on Russian education.

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