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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.

Started Individual Evaluation Sheets on Each Student - Tuesday, June 8, 1965

Insuk Kim showed me how she writes her name in Korean. She gave me a pretty little colored satin bag "in memory" tonight. She's worried about her English and how her hair looks. This should be an interesting and insightful month. The group of fifth graders I had for reading this morning were more restless than yesterday's three students, partly because of the Tuesday/Thursday three-hour time span compared to the Monday/Wednesday/Friday two-hour session. I can see that we're going to have to spend some time playing reading games. I spent some time this evening starting individual evaluation sheets on each student.

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