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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.

Home From Drake Relays - Friday, April 29, 1960

We spent all evening trying to get Norma's lawn mower to start for the Peterson girls. I babysat for Fudges tonight. Mrs. Fudge, Mom and Mrs. Small went to a party for Mrs. Fudge at Mrs. Palmer's. Mr. Fudge was at the Drake Relays and I drove home after he got home. He said, "Why aren't you in bed?" to Craig. When I got home, Phyl said, "Did he pull the curtains down?" I said, "He wasn't in bed," and she said, "He wasn't?" It only then dawned on me that I "forgot" to put him to bed.

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