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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.

Christmas Music Filled Day and Night - Sunday, December 10, 1961

I talked Nancy Huebner into going to the J. R. Christmas party at 9:00. It's now 11:00. I'm going to stay dressed to hear the Madrigal Singers carol at Hawley, then get ready for bed and hope I can both study bio and go to bed at a reasonable hour. I wanted to hear President Morrill give Dickens' Christmas Carol but we got there too late. The concert choir and chamber orchestra program was very good, especially the half hour long Gloria. Vivien is now going with Mickey Cook. The snow we got on Friday is still perfect.

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