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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.

Phyllis Has Her Driver's License - Wednesday, August 2, 1961

Phyllis is now a licensed driver. It will be handy for her to be able to drive places without Mom along. It will be different having a sister driving. There are some of the cutest little moths that come to my light to visit me. This one is white with tiny black dots. We did the wash. Betty and Linda Sue went in with us. Harold got them at the laundromat at 10:00. I bought a pair of real light beige shoes for $2.00 at Atchisons and a pair of new shoe laces for my tan shoes. A small plane sprayed the crops (beans) around here for grasshoppers. I began my dress. Piano lessons.

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