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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.

Had a Grasshopper at the Plaza III Lounge on the Plaza - Friday, March 19, 1965

Tonight I went to a synagogue service with Seth. He is Orthodox Jewish and this was a Conservative service, but there isn't too much difference. It was interesting - the Jewish was the only one of the religion field trips I missed. Afterward we went to the really neat Plaza III cocktail lounge on the Plaza. There was a combo, and we and our "quadruples" - Elliott and Margy, Kent and Mary Jo, and Dave and Carolyn sat around a little table in the center. It reminded me of the movies! I had a "grasshopper." Such a fabulous evening!

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