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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.

All of the Visiting Relatives Are Here Now - Tuesday, August 8, 1961

Well, everyone is here now. Paul Robert is a cute little boy. He "hasn't any neck" and looks like a Gerber's Baby ad. Delbert drove us kids down to Cuddebacks to get Betty and Linda. Esteps got there just after we did. We all really gave them a rousing war-whooping welcome. Ruthie and Bob gave me a nice leather letter holder and a hose holder for graduation. We did the wash in Wellman this morning. Mom took Mrs. Fordyce's book back to her plus a gift (necklace) for the use of it. Mom froze 35 pints of corn this afternoon. I mowed a little grass and wrote my letter for the round robin Mary Ellen, Helen, Linda and I are having.

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