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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.

Recounted Blessings in Last Letter Home from Park - Wednesday, April 14, 1965

After changing my approach somewhat, I'm finally writing my philosophy of education paper. I have decided to limit it to the linguistics of numbers and am entitling it Two Plus Two is Four - Or is It? Jean doesn't think Dr. Pai will like a lot of long quotes, but I think my approach for it will be okay. Evelyn finished her ethics paper fifteen minutes before she had to give an oral report on it. She's still not back from St. Joseph where the choir has gone three nights this week. My last of many, many letters home from Park College was a means for airing some of my recent "injustices" and at the same time recounting some blessings.

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