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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.

Tonight We Went to the Honor Society Alumni Banquet - Friday, May 21, 1965

Ann went to the sophomore party while Phyllis, Virginia and I went to the honor society alumni banquet. Joyce Covan went along to the party. Mary Ann Miller was at the banquet. It was nice to see her again. There really weren't very many alumni there. It should be held in the late summer. I took a turn riding the bike out the back road - it seems to work pretty well for the dog's daily run. Mom brought me some of her school materials that will be helpful in our remedial reading program.

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