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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 Day of Successes - Monday, September 25, 1961

This has been a day of successes. We just got our Park beanies that we have to wear till Saturday noon - a Hell Week "extension." Tonight the girls had physicals over at the health center. It sure is a nice place. I got my schedule changed and the appropriate approvals made. I think I'll like trampoline and fencing. Viv and I went down to the lumber yard this afternoon and bought two boards for our brick and board shelves. We found the bricks in Herr House basement. I bought a light blue Park College sweat shirt. There's a rumor that they're going to stop using the present emblem but I sure hope not.

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