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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.

Looking at Old Congressional Globes and Records in the Library Attic - Friday, May 11, 1962

Four more prospective students have arrived. We have them from time to time. Some of us went swimming tonight. The pool was crowded but refreshing. Marge was at the library this afternoon so I took her up to the attic. We looked at old Congressional Records (and Globes), Park class pictures, old Narvas and Styluses. It's so interesting up there. I was looking at a Ladies' Home Journal for 1898. It was full of corset advertisements. Yesterday the temperature (92 degrees) was the hottest for the day since 1911 (88 degrees). It must have been as hot today.

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