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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.

Hawley Receives a Piano for Christmas - Wednesday, December 6, 1961

I got a $25.00 check from home and my tuition check. I decided to send my river-smelling slacks and my sweet potatoed skirt to the cleaners, now that I have some money. I won't spend much more of it I hope. Tonight we were called down to the lounge for a wonderful Christmas surprise - a new little blond spinet piano. The thing was, Marge, Janet and I got back from supper just in time to catch them moving in the surprise and the music company truck parked by the door. Now I have to study my art. I wasted a little time this afternoon perhaps but not like lots of times. I decided to go see the upstairs of the library and what should I find but Dr. Hamilton on the floor reading from the stacks.

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