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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.

Ann's Birthday - Saturday, January 21, 1961

Today just seemed to go too fast. It was Ann's birthday. Mom went to Iowa City to her class. I slept till 10:30, then the kids talked me into burning trash. This afternoon I washed my hair, but it took me till 2:30 to get anything accomplished. I was reading about and discussing the "changing of the guard" from the oldest president to the youngest president in history. I did my chemistry. I should get ahead on it for once, as this will be another busy week. We had Ann's birthday supper tonight.

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