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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.

Dr. Hauptmann was Chapel Service Speaker This Morning - Sunday, February 11, 1962

This was our second beautiful Sunday in a row. I wrote on three Valentines, a letter to Vivian Pavlis, and a letter to Arizona State University about a contest on meteorite research that I saw on a bulletin board in Mackay. After supper (at which time Marge, Flo and I made a funny face from our [weekly Sunday night supper] paper sacks and propped it by the trash boxes) we walked around campus taking in the beautiful evening air. Dr. Hauptmann spoke in chapel this morning. I'm finally getting back to The Song of Roland and I've got to read Dante's Inferno.

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