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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 Bright But Exhausting Harvest Festival Day - Friday, October 20, 1961

This has been a bright but exhausting Harvest Festival day. This morning I got up and got the room ready for Kay. She got here about 10:30 (came on a private plane from Omaha). She's 16 and real nice. This afternoon we saw part of the pep rally, cross country, went to the dedication of Dearing Hall, and tonight we saw the Park Singers and the pageant depicting the life of Col. George S. Park and the founding of Parkville and the college. Margie and I spent about 20 minutes stuffing napkins on the LEC float. Quite a contrast to last year but it sure reminded me of it.

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