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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.

The PCCs Give A Roman Party - Tuesday, September 12, 1961

Tonight the PCCs gave a Roman party with the theme "Rome can be built in a day." We ate supper sitting on the floor and the waitresses wore long robes made out of white sheets. It was real nice. Gee, today we were all scheduled to take ACT tests. However, they didn't have enough test books so those who had already taken it didn't have to take it again. I spent the morning typing a research paper for Viv. This afternoon we had a meeting concerning student government, activities, music, and physical education, and we took a tour of the home economics department. 

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