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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.

Band Plays for Memorial Day Service - Sunday, May 28, 1961

Cuddebacks came tonight and brought me a slip, and a few minutes later Stouts came and brought me a little sewing kit to use in college. Weermans gave me a pair of pretty print summer pajamas. I didn't have my class today since it was Missionary Sunday and Mrs. Weerman took it. Peters left today for the week. They can't be gone all of July as usual since Betty is taking driver training. Fudges went up, too. Virginia had to play with the junior high band at the Memorial Day service at the Methodist Church. It was the first year in years a band didn't go to the cemeteries.

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