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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.

$1.5 Million Massachusetts Mail Truck Robbery - Thursday, August 16, 1962

Mom washed this afternoon and we swam. The pool was the coldest I've ever known it to be. I looked for a gold sweater in Wards to match my two new gold skirts but they didn't have any. A robbery of a mail truck in Massachusetts of $1.5 million Tuesday night surpassed the Brink's robbery. I have my skirt done except for the hem. It's a little big around the waist though. Hope I don't get quite that fat! They vaccinated pigs and the ponies this morning. We canned thirteen quarts of tomato juice.

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