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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.

Went in to the Teachers Convention This Morning - Thursday, November 5, 1964

My 22nd birthday was nice. The package from home arrived - lots of food, the crepe blouse I wanted to go with the blue jumper I made, Avon soap, stationery, and a cute children's book about cut-outs. Judy gave her Stephens birthday party for me tonight. We had doughnuts in the lounge. Evelyn and I went in to the teachers convention this morning. There were so many preliminaries that we had to leave before the speech to get back for class. On the way back I missed getting a nickel into the automatic change box on the Broadway Bridge and had to get out of the car to pick it up.

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