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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.

Mid-Prairie Yearbook Came Yesterday - Sunday, September 24, 1961

I feel a thousand times better for having slept or rested over twelve hours last night. I hope to go to sleep as shortly after our 10:15 floor meeting tonight as possible. I had a hard time staying awake in church this morning even so. I guess it was partly hunger. I really helped my cold. Nancy Kelley and I thought there was an LEC meeting this afternoon in Mackay. We couldn't hear the announcement very good. We walked in on a Men's Athletic Council meeting! We felt so funny. We've sure been having some drizzly, rainy days. Margie, Viv and I took a little kitten over to Woodward tonight where there's already a mother cat and three kittens. I got my Mid-Prairie yearbook yesterday. At long last!

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