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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.

Will Sing "Happy Birthday" to Guest Lecturer - Tuesday, March 5, 1963

I wrote news all afternoon and still had two articles to do tonight. I had taken them down to the print shop and on finding it locked, was trying to see if there was a crack at the side or bottom of the door to push them through when I was caught in the act by Mr. Sherwood. He had just been driving past and saw me. I've been getting third floor together on the idea of waking up a visiting lecturer in the Hawley guest room whose birthday is tomorrow (read it in his biographical sketch last week) by singing "Happy Birthday" to him. I found the perfect card in the drug store and we're giving him some campus pictures that Kathy and Tom printed.

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