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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 Some Nice Comments from Mothers of Students - Thursday, July 1, 1965

Because I hadn't noticed that (Evelyn's fiance) had left my trunks on the basement floor of their apartment (or thought about it, for that matter), the rain water completely ruined my cranberry velveteen bridesmaid's dress from Vivien and Charlie's wedding and my red brocade party dress. He had had the trunk turned on its top. My winter pajamas are in bad shape, too. Luckily, most of the winter clothes I had in it aren't very bad off, and besides, I didn't wear a lot of the ones I happened to have in that trunk that much anyway. Tex helped me clean up the mess when we got back from visiting with Evelyn. I had some nice comments from mothers of remedial reading students today. This afternoon I began getting things in order and did a few errands.

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