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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.

We Buy Bedspreads in Kansas City - Wednesday, September 13, 1961

This morning most of the Park College freshmen trooped through the streets of Kansas City in the rain buying bedspreads, drapes and umbrellas. I guess we're getting the effects of Hurricane Carla as it has been cold and rainy (55 degrees this morning in Kansas City and water from the Missouri up to Hwy 9 [It later became Hwy 45.] Viv and I bought Martha Washington white bedspreads for $7.77 each. We're going to get our drapes and rug later. I don't have to take freshman English (among 35 who don't!) but will have to have a semester of speech. We had reading and IQ tests after dinner. The LLC party was tonight.

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