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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.

Some of Us Went Trick or Treating - Tuesday, October 31, 1961

I was going to read art instead of going to the Halloween horror show. However, I spent so much more time on our trick or treat bit than I planned that I probably might as well have gone ahead and gone. As a group some of us Hawley girls dressed up and went to Copley to trick or treat. Then several of us went to President Morrill's house, Dean White's, Stephens (no answers at those two) and Herr House. It was a riot, all dressed up as if we were grade school kids. I have about this many pages in thickness (-----) of art to read by Thursday.

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