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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.

WCTU County Resolutions From Grandma - Monday, July 27, 1964

Well, perhaps at last I can rest assured that I have done about all I can do for the 1964 Narva - I got the receipt back that said Karen had gotten the registered mail package. The girls and Mom went to Cedar Rapids today. Mom got me a name stamp and pad - but the name will have to be sent to me. Ann has gone to Marty's for the week. I'm done with my dress except for a snap and hook and eye. Nic, Charlie and I had a discussion about the Women's Christian Temperance Union County Convention's resolutions that Grandma McDowell, of all people - my own grandmother! - wanted in the paper. I thought Nic was going to have a fit over one of them.

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