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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 Letter From a Hawley Hall Floor Counselor - Thursday, August 17, 1961

I feel myself getting slower. I find it hard to hurry - even now, for instance, when the kids are yelling at me to hurry up and get in bed so the light won't be in their eyes! Help! I finished my dress except for the hem. I am starting to hem up some dresses and skirts. I got a letter from Merry Dean from New Mexico who is to be my Hawley Hall floor counselor this year. I'll have to find out if I'm still supposed to hear from my "Big Sister." Norma "gave me a talking to" about never going over to see her. I do feel guilty about it.

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