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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.

Victor Borge Takes Place of Play Practice - Tuesday, April 11, 1961

This feels about like Thursday instead of Tuesday. After I thought we weren't having play practice, I went over when Mrs. Frazier said we were, only to find out we wouldn't after all. Too many kids went to hear the pianist Victor Borge in Iowa City. I thought we shouldn't try to have it in the first place! At least I had a yearbook meeting. Mary Ellen sure doesn't please me when it comes to yearbook. (It couldn't be that I'm unconsciously jealous that I'm not the editor, could it?) We had a sociology test. I wonder how I did. Virginia and Ann visited Kalona with the West Chester junior high kids--where they'll be going next year.

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