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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 Typewriter as a Graduation Present - Saturday, June 3, 1961

This afternoon Grandma Kay, Mom, Ann and I went over to the Greene Center Book Store in Wellman to see about a typewriter for college as a graduation present. I think we'll probably get a Smith-Corona. I got my graduation pictures of me getting my diploma. It is pretty good considering the circumstances. We went in to town to get our meat at Richard's, too. I got the pajamas that Patty paid for as a graduation present. Virginia went home with Bonnie. I'm writing a letter about our meteorite to some scientists who are using them to find traces of life in outer space.

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