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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.

Hit by a Blizzard - Tuesday, February 9, 1960

I went back to school but what a day. We have a real blizzard. I think we could have come home early if Mrs. Small, Mr. Fudge and the girls taking shorthand hadn't had a bus in Iowa City. Yesterday was such a beautiful day, too. Despite the weather, they probably played the last girls' basketball game West Chester will ever have tonight. By the way, we have to go to school in Wellman next year even though the new high school isn't built yet.

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