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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.

Parkville's Christmas Decorations Are Up - Monday, November 27, 1961

Barb Page and Kathy Olson have both been in about French and I've spent two hours on it myself. What if I flunked out of college? Currently I'm on a happy-go-lucky "don't sweat it" splurge but it will probably end. I don't like to worry about my grades if I can possibly help it. I got "yelled at" in gym - "Young lady, don't lift your back foot when you lunge!" and she lifts hers head high in "imitating." I wrote a letter to the youth fellowship. I went down to Parkville with Vivien. Christmas decorations are up. A house meeting has just been called.

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