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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.

I Dare You! is Stimulating - Monday, June 5, 1961

The first day of Bible School has come and gone. It's kind of a review for me rather than routine since I was at the journalism workshop the week of Bible School the last two years. In the afternoon I showed about 15 how to make bracelets. Mrs. Hahn, Mrs. Eckels and Phyllis were measuring plastic like crazy. I finished my skirt except for the snap. I don't think I'll put a button on this one. I found out as I read further in I Dare You! that Mr. Danforth would be afraid he had failed miserably if he wrote it for no greater purpose than to interest somebody. (See yesterday.) It is stimulating.

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