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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.

Remembering the West Chester Track Team - Saturday, March 18, 1961

Tonight defending state champion Marshalltown won the tournament again by beating Calumet. It would have been nice if Calumet could have won. We keep forgetting that West Chester won both the Class C indoor and outdoor track meets two years ago. I guess we were the type that took the trophy and left before the reporters came around to make a big to-do about us--that's good old West Chester. I spent the morning in the Iowa City library getting research paper material and 45 minutes this afternoon doing the same in the Washington library.

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