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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.

Slides Show Ann Was a Cute Little Girl - Saturday, August 12, 1961

We finished up the hay baling out at Grandma's. We did 642 bales this week. I guessed 640! Tonight Mom showed a lot of our slides. I never realized Ann was such a cute little girl!?! I answered Vernice Varley's letter, but I don't know what the LLC Club is. I also wrote another letter to Vivienne. I should write to my pen pals, too. I'm afraid some of them will have almost become a thing of the past by the time I start writing college letters home and to friends around here.

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