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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.

Falling Springs Will Be a Fond Memory of Park - Sunday, February 4, 1962

Falling Springs will always be one of my fond memories of Park College. On this beautiful Sunday afternoon ten of us girls walked up to Alfalfa Point and on over to the springs. The water was really rushing over the falls today. Bob Lastick with his bow and arrows and John McQuade with his guitar came over after we got there. They had seen us on our way over. Terry Wang and Ken Ruth came down, too. It was almost too gorgeous a day to study. We had blankets on Hawley's front lawn for a while and did a little studying out there.

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