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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.

Philosophical About Experiences as They Have Happened - Sunday, May 9, 1965

Sometimes I just become philosophical about my experiences as they've happened so far. I can't believe that summer has come again so soon. I remember all my long, thoughtful bike rides last summer, and I'm looking forward to more of the same. I think how fast my four years of college went. The free will philosophical question, and an answer, "could have acted otherwise" gets to me when I puzzle over why I wasn't more outgoing - my nervousness and a certain kind of self-consciousness still bother me. But I have changed a lot, too, for the better. We had a family dinner at Cuddebacks. I gave Mom a pair of "surfer" knee knocker pants for Mother's Day. We gave her a yellow rose corsage.

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