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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.

Ten of Eleven Students who Came to Our Program are Boys - Tuesday, June 1, 1965

We had eleven students show up this morning for our reading program - ten are boys. This afternoon I gave a test to a first grader whose mother didn't get him here this morning because she hadn't read our letter right. Dee didn't make it back from St. Louis in time so I had to handle both a first grader and a group of fourth or third grade level boys. This afternoon I talked with another woman on the phone about her two kids. Kathy Webb called and offered to help. I'll be glad to have her in addition to Bonnie's and Kathy's generous help. Kathy and I went to the North Kansas City Library to get a book for one of our seventh graders. I drove the wrong way on a "One Way" street! We went to the cookout at the Careys tonight.

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