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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.

Nine of Us Attend Universal Day of Prayer for Students Service - Sunday, February 18, 1962

Today's studying time was spent in preparation for tomorrow's anatomy test. It was cold today. At 6:00 this morning Marge and I went to the Universal Day of Prayer for Students service in the chapel. Only about nine showed up. I wrote a letter to Phyllis. Jim spoke to me at supper - concerning the "hopeless" ketchup bottles. I hadn't even realized he was standing beside me. I played Hearts on the new round card table in the lounge with Marge, Judy and Carolyn.

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