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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 Family Dinner at Cuddebacks - Thursday, August 10, 1961

Today we all got together for dinner at Cuddebacks. It was fun while we were there but some of us had to leave to do hay. Phyllis and I didn't get to see most of the movies and Daddy not any but I guess we'd seen them before. Bob, Ruthie, Paul and Debbie, the girl they brought with them, are staying here tonight. Bob took a picture of us with his Polaroid Land camera. One of those would be nice to have. I got a letter from Bob Barnes who lives in Maple Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. His letter was more specific than the one I got yesterday. As we figured, they sent the names of the new students to the upperclassmen.

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