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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.

Sold LLC Chocolate Bars, Went on OAC Hayride - Saturday, April 11, 1964

Today was devoted t the LLCs and their activities. I bet I've sold enough chocolate bars to win the tennis racket being given away to the person who sells the most, but I haven't kept that close track of how many I've sold. I think I sold about 68 today - Parkville and Mackay this morning, United Super store this afternoon. I'm afraid we're not going to get all 1,200 sold though. Tonight some of the LLCs went with the OACs to Mark Fisher's farm for a hayride. Some of us rode the 15 miles to the farm in the Park College truck. We ran out of gas on the way back and Hans, Bob and Wayne had to go to a farmhouse for gas.

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