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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.

We Are Going to Have a Great Stephens Group - Sunday, August 30, 1964

As usual, I'm into the thick of things. I think we're really going to have a great Stephens group in spite of all our difficulties. They are too numerous to mention. We can only take one day at a time. My three freshman girl advisees are very nice, and I gave quite a bit of attention to each. Apparently neither of the boys is coming to Park. I helped with LLC favors tonight (I was going to cut down on social club obligations!). Flo and I "saved the day" at the freshman mixer by diluting the punch - after numerous ones had gotten straight orange "base."

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