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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 Fresh Air Child is Staying on Nearby Farm - Saturday, July 15, 1961

The new Miss Universe is Miss Germany. She is an electronics engineer. Miss United States was fourth runner-up. I'm glad she didn't win as the U.S. has the most of any country. I understood a little of what Miss France and Miss Switzerland said. I got a letter from my roommate. She is very nice. Her father got his doctorate from SUI and she used to live in Iowa. She had been at church camp for ten days so that's why she hadn't written. We kids stayed with the Parcell kids while Mom went to get Virginia and Mary, and Peggy went uptown.  The Gingerich family has the cutest little "Fresh Air Child" Negro girl.

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