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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.

Criminology Paper Research at Library - Saturday, April 8, 1961

I worked on my research paper this morning in spite of the temtation to sleep. This afternoon we went to town and I made my typical trip to the library to take notes from criminology books. I think I re-entered the library one week later to the very minute. Only this time I sat on the opposite side of the same table. I had the same three books. There were several Mid-Prairie kids in town. Tonight is the junior-senior prom, but I am not there--in spite of the fact that my formal invitation "requests the pleasure of your company."

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