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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.

A Note in a Bottle - Saturday, May 19, 1962

I'm writing in Margie's room so I have light to see while she is in mine looking out at the rain which we've been doing for the last 45 minutes. We sang about every song in the book. The rain is so pretty. I went with Vivien to Antoines, the ACC steak dinner in the Meetin' House tonight. Then Gloria and I took the bottle with the canoe trip note down to throw in the river. I sun tanned this afternoon. I got a copy of the new view book but they didn't use the picture I took even after I won the $5.00. I was in the volleyball picture.

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