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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.

Parents Are Here for Commencement - Saturday, April 18, 1964

I've been reading Barbara Ward's The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations almost all day and I still have ten pages to go. I had intended to finish it this morning and do algebra this afternoon. I've been trying to repress all thoughts about the latter. All of the seniors are packed and ready to move out, and their parents are here for commencement. This morning I took Patsy Michaels, who will be a freshman in the fall, to Mackay and Hawley. She stayed last night in Stephens guest room. I also helped the Browns - he's here for an honorary degree - get settled. We talked about the old Park College.

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