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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.

Virginia and Ann Plan to Get a Triple Bunk Bed - Friday, July 24, 1964

I couldn't even ride my bike tonight because it had a flat tire. It was just too hot to do anything, so I did things like polish my fingernails, pick at my peeling suntan, pick at the piano, and wash my hair. Virginia and Ann are fixing up their room and plan to get a triple bunk bed. They painted my desk and Ann's dresser blue, green and white to match their color scheme. There were only five or six local news items in tonight's paper - the fewest I've ever had, I think. And after Mrs. Stewart praised my work on the local news and said she misses me during the winter.

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