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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.

New Lowells Put on Suits for LLC Initiation - Saturday, September 26, 1964

We had an LLC initiation in Herr House lounge tonight. Afterward we played charades. We seem to have quite a lot of nice guys - bless their hearts for putting on suits to come tonight. They went to the movie as a group. The Lucernes lost 10-8 to the Elaines in softball in a game we deserved to win. My watch stopped - I think never to go again. I think I'll just get a new one since this one wasn't too expensive. So it ran a year and a week after I thought the Missouri River had gotten the best of it when Flo's, Gabe's and my canoe tipped over. I painted the file in the education library while Evelyn and Doree arranged books.

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