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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.

Russian (Titov) Circles the Earth 17 Times - Monday, August 7, 1961

Leets took my write-up to the Journal on their way to Richard's early this morning and it was in the paper tonight. It made a nice article; also Mom's name with the area SUI graduates. Virginia is staying all night with Mary Dunbar. The rest of us went to the first night of the fair. They've got a real nice county fair this year in all respects. The carnival is a lot bigger and pretty nice. We baled hay out at Grandma's this afternoon. Oakey about had a fit over my driving the Plymouth! The Russians sent a man around the world 17 times - Gherman Titov. We went to the City for Mom to get her cap and gown.  

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