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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.

Art Exhibits at Library - Saturday, April 22, 1961

I've spent so much time on my research paper the last few days that I didn't do a thing in the way of school work. I'll have to "cram" tomorrow. We went to town this afternoon. I went up to see the art exhibits while I was at the library, then went back with Mom and Virginia and Ann and looked at them again. Phyllis was at the music contest at Sigourney. Both the mixed chorus and girls' chorus got II's. Mr. Eddy wouldn't let the band enter. What's a contest for? 

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