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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.

Outstanding Parkites and Professor Announced - Tuesday, April 14, 1964

The student council met at 7:30 after the junior-senior steak dinner at 6:30. It was a good meal - too bad Commons food can't taste like that all the time. At the awards ceremony this morning Cheryl Wiley and John Garrett were named Outstanding Parkites and Dr. Schurr Outstanding Professor. There seemed to be a good distribution of awards this year. I went up to work this afternoon, the first time in ages that Mrs. Flaherty had me go up. I got up at 6:00 to do two algebra problems - and then we didn't have to hand those two in. I gave my closet a long overdue cleaning this afternoon.

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