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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.

Daddy Is In the Hospital - Friday, May 19, 1961

Daddy is in the hospital tonight and has been since he got home from chores this morning. He had a terrible side ache and said he'd have thought it was appendicitis if he hadn't already had his appendix out. Mom called Dr. Lloyd and he had her bring him in. They still don't know but what it's a kidney stone. Mom didn't teach and was in there all day. I got my hair fixed in town this morning--I went in the Dodge. Back home, I read magazines, spent half my time on the phone, and started cleaning house. We went back to town tonight to do the wash and Mom went back to see Daddy. That's how I spent senior skip day. We didn't go to the hobo party.  

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