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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.

A Roommate for Room 207 in Hawley Hall - Friday, June 30, 1961

Here June's gone and I haven't done a thing. Guess this just isn't my summer. I got my new curtains made and up today. I like the effect better at night, I think. They're blue-green and green on cream - "country scenes" print. I found out who my roommate at Park is going to be - Vivienne Lee Nix from Tahlequah, Oklahoma. I wrote to her tonight. We got Room 207 in Hawley Hall which is a new freshman women's dorm. Our room is aqua. Just had a drowning (moth) in my ink. Someone drowned Tuesday in Lake Darling - first in ten years. A much needed "million dollar"; "survival rations" 0.5 rain this morning. Some say driest May and June for Washington County in 25 years.

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