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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.

Movie is Civil War Centennial Edition - Monday, June 26, 1961

We went to see "Gone With the Wind" tonight. Now I've met another of my "life-time goals." They brought it out this year for the Civil War Centennial. It's a good show, but Scarlet O'Hara sure is spoiled. Mom and Dad saw it their first year at Berea. I almost saw it my first year of college. I drove for putting up some hay this morning, but Daddy let us go to town this afternoon. I swam for about an hour, then went uptown to get curtain material and white terry cloth for a house coat. Mary is staying all night with Virginia.

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