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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.

Twisting and Turning in Bed - Wednesday, May 31, 1961

It's rather warm. First we twist and turn in bed because of the cold and then because of the heat. Phyllis went with me tonight to a yearbook meeting. I went mainly to see the pictures they were getting back from Driscoll's. Well, the picture of Bob and me for the Danforth Awards wasn't returned and the one of me at the honor society initiation looked a mess. Virginia and I went down to Janeceks to take piano lessons. I ran Jerolyn's graduation present down to her. I finished mowing the grass.

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